Word: curriculums
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Enter Santa Ocasio, 56, a Dominican immigrant who is fighting a protracted battle with Type 2 diabetes. In a pilot program that is the leading edge of a broad curriculum overhaul at Harvard Medical School, Brickell has been paired with Ocasio for nearly five months. She sees her as a patient every week at the Spanish Clinic of Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital and tags along on visits to her specialists. In fact, the goal is for Brickell to be there every time Ocasio encounters the health-care system. It's not just a way to learn about...
...Harvard has built closer partnerships between students and patients into the principal clinical experience, a small but important part of its most significant curriculum reform in two decades. The University of Pennsylvania Medical School began a similar program in 1997, and other schools are following suit. As long as medical students are still getting a healthy diet of clinical learning, educators say, there's little downside...
...This article consists of an illustration. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] True story: As part of its social-studies curriculum, my daughter's fourth-grade class was planning a field trip to the Lower East Side in Manhattan to get a sense of what life was like for immigrants in the early 20th century...
APRIL 18, 2006 Professors approved delaying concentration choice to the middle of sophomore year, as well as a proposal to revamp the life sciences curriculum. But quorum was only met after some professors trickled in in the middle of the meeting. “Usually there is a bigger crowd when there’s controversy, and it was pretty obvious there wasn’t going to be controversy today,” Faculty Council Vice Chair Laurel Thatcher Ulrich said after the meeting...
...computer game alone can cure adolescent financial ignorance. Some curriculum experts wonder why high schools are still teaching algebra, trigonometry and calculus but not the financial skills their students will need to survive in the real world, such as how to fill out tax forms, compare interest rates or calculate the return on an investment. "More schools need to offer money-management classes," says Lewis Mandell, a finance professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo who oversaw the JumpStart research. "The curriculum has to be made relevant to their lives...