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Instead of spending hours upon hours in lectures, and waiting two years to start clinical work, this fall 24 first-year students--almost a sixth of the Med School class of 1989--are participating in the school's New Pathway program. It is designed to allow students to start thinking clinically from the start of their studies, and decrease the amount of required memorization...
Although the program is just two months old, plans to broaden it to include a larger proportion of each Med School class--and perhaps one day all medical students at Harvard--are already underway, according to Dr. Daniel C. Tosteson '44, who as dean of the Med School has led efforts to establish the program...
...Pathway was conceived three years ago as a radical new approach to training doctors, a seven-year plan that would have taken students after their sophomore year in college and carried them through one integrated chain encompassing the final two undergraduate years, four years of med school, and the first year of "residency," or hospital training...
...problems in persuading the Med School faculty to accept the full plan, and the realization that it would be difficult to fashion a comprehensive college-med school-hospital program, led organizers to settle for revamping the traditional four years of medical training for no more than 25 students in each class...
After the Med School faculty granted conditional approval to the plan two years ago, a variety of student-faculty committees began refining the curriculum, recruiting faculty, and raising money. Several million dollars and hundreds of agendas later, the first program participants were selected in the spring from among interested students admitted to the regular class...