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Today the dean of the Medical School heads a faculty with some 1400 full-time members and an additional 1400 part-time members. Med School faculty predominate on the physician staffs of major Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals like Beth Israel, Peter Bent Brigham and Massachusetts General, the largest hospital in New England. The dean is ex officio president of the Harvard Medical Center, a council of hospital officials created to coordinate the work of the Harvard-affiliated hospitals. And in addition to the sheer number of people the dean must direct, he plays an important role as a national leader...
Tosteson is still involved in talking and listening here, feeling out the Med School's faculty in general terms before he begins to discuss specific programs. But if Tosteson is anything like Ebert, he has plans. Shortly after Ebert became dean of the Medical School in 1965 he began work on setting up the Harvard Community Health Plan, a health maintenance organization that would emphasize primary and preventive care--a progressive shift in emphasis not especially easy to implement, given the Med School's largely conservative faculty. Most analysts of the U.S. health care system view the shift...
...issue of teaching quality is sure to come up for discussion at the Med School this fall. Last spring the Med School faculty voted to approve a set of recommendations that a comprehensive program for teaching evaluation be developed, and that the evaluations be used in considering faculty appointments. So far, the faculty members working on the program have mainly worked on field trials of possible evaluation methods, but they plan to meet with Tosteson this fall to discuss possibilities for the broader implementation of the program...
...Med School students now carry plastic identification cards with their pictures attached, but the photo badges will include larger pictures and will save students the trouble of having to pull out an I.D. card to show building guards, Paula O'Malley, action information desk manager at the Med School, said yesterday...
...want to hear this amazing thing my pre-med roommate told me last week? Here it is. Take any triangle; assume it's a right triangle for simplicity's sake. OK. Now, measure one of the sides of the triangle you've taken. Now measure the other side. Now multiply the length of the first side you took by itself. Now do the same with the second side. OK. Now measure the third side. OK, now you've made a clean sweep, measuring-wise. Now, multiply the measurement of the third side by itself. (Oh, by the way, make sure...