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...striking changes have taken place in pre-medical and medical education, they have been over-shadowed by the "Revolution in Biology" and the advances in behavioral sciences, economics and applied mathematics. Medical education simply has not kept pace with these changes and has at best fitted them into the curricula in a haphazard, piecemeal fashion...
...currently exist. The pre-medical and undergraduate medical curriculum should be re-evaluated in the light of the current realities in science, social science and the humanities. The information, understanding, and concepts of the revolution in biology which has occurred since World War II, should be incorporated into the curricula so that wherever possible basic concepts can displace rote memory. The potential here is overwhelming, yet in almost 40 years, the impact on medical teaching has been minimal...
While many faculty of Harvard Medical School and other prominent medical schools said they were pleased with Bok's recommendations, which include a restructuring of medical curricula to deemphasize the basic sciences and an addition of more humanities and ethics courses, some added that their complaints lay in his suggestions for remedying the problems...
harming undergraduate liberal arts curricula by fostering extreme competition for grades and a bias towards science courses...
...most recent, and newsworthy, examples of this. Any action by anyone which seeks to limit the freedom of the University to offer courses smacks of censorship, and is distressingly similar to the recurrent incidents in which PTA's try to get books with dirty words removed from school curricula, or vigilantes try to remove such works from public libraries...