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...long thought that public health programs lack one component central to the training of public health professionals: problem solving. But it is only towards the end of his tenure, which began in 1998 and will end this January, that Bloom began to translate his ideas into a viable curriculum, one that would satisfy the requirements of an accreditation council...
...After a couple years of academic planning by Bloom’s associate deans, the School of Public Health rolled out an alternative, case-based core curriculum this fall for its first-year students. Already, about 40 percent of the 150 first-year students opted to study under the new curriculum...
...their [work] is solving problems,” Bloom said, “then we should give them a curriculum that really teaches them how to think...
...couple years ago, Bloom and his colleagues put their heads together to churn out a curriculum that would best enable students to attack big problems that require multidisciplinary solutions...
...steering committee of roughly 10 faculty members from each core discipline and led by Nancy Kane, one of the school’s two associate deans of educational programs, convened to create a case-based curriculum that would expose first year students to the five core areas...