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During his long career, Tosteson has adapted to and helped cause massive advances in medical science, said Harvey V. Fineberg '67, dean of the School of Public Health...
...made a profound impact on medical education at Harvard and in the country," Fineberg said. "He has always been very persistent and consistent in improving programs at the Medical School intellectually and in terms of research and the physical environment...
Tosteson's most famous innovation is the "New Pathway." This new method of teaching medicine de-emphasizes memorization of facts and focuses instead on teaching students problem-solving skills, Fineberg said...
...addition to maintaining the importance of education, Tosteson has vastly strengthened the school's Molecular Research Department and increased cooperation in that area with other institutions like MIT, Fineberg said...
According to Fineberg, medicine has been taught essentially the same way since the early part of this century when the emphasis in instruction shifted to learning the corpus of scientific knowledge...