Word: curriculum
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Oliver compares the program favorably to his own curriculum for studying controversial issue also being tried out in Newton. "We have the kids for 55 minutes, four days a week," he explained. "There's a limit to what we can accomplish. In the new program that's removed, because we take the kids out of their school environment and introduce them to adults who are definitely not their teachers...
This year the Harvard Medical School undertook a major reevaluation of its curriculum. Dr. Alexander Leaf, chairman of the Med School's curriculum committee, headed the study. His report is now in the hands of Dr. Robert H. Ebert, Dean of the Medical School. The report will be released in the fall and members of the Med School Faculty will discuss its recommendations. In a speech delivered last winter, Dr. Ebert set forth his ideas on Medical School curricula and indicated the direction changes are likely to take. Excerpts of the speech are printed below...
...medical education which takes place during internship, residency and fellowship is not the legal responsibility of the medical school or University and is more akin to the old apprenticeship system of education than the University. To be sure, University faculties are involved in University-affiliated hospitals, but the "curriculum" is the creature of the specialty boards, accreditation bodies and the pafrticular speciality groups within the hospitals. It is a system of education which has grown like Topsy, and interns and residents are more often conveted because of the service they provide than because the professional staff of a hospital...
Harvard medical students are intelligent and critical, and yet in the past year they appear to have made two rather contradictory criticisms of the curriculum. Some students have...
...There must be time in the medical curriculum to pursue knowledge in some area of particular interest, for this is how the student will learn in the future. If he is so heavily burdened with required courses during his educational experience that there is no time for independent study, his continuing education will be is jeopardy. Experience in a research laboratory may or may not fulfil this need. If his work in the laboratory is essentially that of a technician, it will...