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...January of 1966, twenty-five second-year students at Harvard Medical School, frustrated by the lecture system which makes up the bulk of the second year curriculum, petitioned their dean for the privilege of studying the course material independently. Dean Ebert granted the petition, though the number of actual participants dropped from twenty-five to five. Those five still feel that the experiment was a personal success, although they may have scored lower on the minutely detailed final exams than did the bulk of their class...
...Dean Ebert appointed this group as a subcommittee of the faculty Curriculum Committee. The critical debate initiated by the second-year experiment undoubtedly encouraged the Dean to begin an investigation of long-needed reforms. The committee, led by Dr. Alexander Leaf, worked over the summer and submitted its report to the faculty last fall. The members tried to re-assess what a medical school should be teaching its students, and questioned the wisdom of allowing each medical department to offer a required course which burdens the student with perhaps irrelevant facts and details. The members recognized that students had differing...
Equally possible--perhaps more probable - is that the events and trends of this year will generate farreaching consequences, now unforeseen and unintended.DEAN ROBERT EBERT...
...case, 1966 saw at least one major Faculty begin deliberations that could lead to fundamental change in its curriculum. The Medical School, reacting to prodding from its new dean, Dr. Robert H. Ebert, began debating a series of major proposals for revamping medical instruction. Under the present curriculum, all students are required to carry the same basic course load. A special subcommittee suggested that this be altered. The subcommittee report emphasized the need of more flexibility in the curriculum to accommodate the varying needs and interests of students. It proposed that only a basic "core curriculum" be required of students...
Leaf, who will join Ebert in meeting with representatives of the Ed School, next week, said he hoped the education experts could suggest what else teachers could be told, and how. "It's one thing to be enthusiastic and excited and know your subject -- and that's the first requirement," said Leaf, "but are there some formal techniques they can learn to improve their teaching...