Word: curriculums
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Early data on Harvard Medical School’s revamped third-year training program suggests that the new curriculum will turn out better doctors, four key architects of the reforms wrote in The New England Journal of Medicine yesterday...
...school is already preemptively dismissing charges that it is embracing purely practical knowledge. "We do not propose that we teach the headlines," said a report published on Feb. 7 by the curriculum committee, comprising professors, students and a dean. "Only that the headlines, along with much else in our students' lives, are among the things that a liberal education can help students make better sense...
...plan's advocates say the curriculum is flexible enough that students will still be able to take courses in whatever interests them, be it ancient art or cutting-edge science. What's crucial, they say, is that the new approach emphasizes the kind of active learning that gets students thinking and applying knowledge. "Just as one doesn't become a marathon runner by reading about the Boston Marathon," says the committee report, "so, too, one doesn't become a good problem solver by listening to lectures or reading about statistics." Acknowledging how important extracurricular activities have become on campus...
Fithian also said that the legislative process will direct attention to the question of implementing the new curriculum, although specifics will most likely be left for a later committee to determine...
Ryan said that it could take more than one meeting to complete the actual vote on the new curriculum proposal...