Word: meds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First off the block in April was Bok, who uncorked a sweeping broadside at the state of medical education in this country, saying undergraduates and med students have been overloaded with basic science to the detriment of other disciplines of which they should be aware...
...most [medical] students today are getting an education that is far too narrow to prepare them for the challenges that await them in their working lives." Bok offered praise for a controversial new pilot program under development at the Medical School, which will offer an alternative to the traditional med school curriculum of two years of classroom study, and then two years of clinical training...
...kinds of formal and informal situations--jolly-ups were not so bad. I spent one Moors jolly-up evening talking to a shy grad student in biology with a slight British accent. His name was Jim Watson! Another jolly-up brought forth a great group of Harvard med students. After all, we came from a generation whose parents introduced us to their friend's children. Public school girls seemed to handle the stresses and strains of college social life better than the private school girls. That division existed, but did some-what diminish with time. College level work went better...
...interest in medical education has extended over the past four decades, since I entered college as a "pre-med" following service in World War II. While rather striking changes have taken place in pre-medical and medical education, they have been over-shadowed by the "Revolution in Biology" and the advances in behavioral sciences, economics and applied mathematics. Medical education simply has not kept pace with these changes and has at best fitted them into the curricula in a haphazard, piecemeal fashion...
...sometimes fear that the national impact [of the report] may be greater than that at the Med School," he said, adding "in some ways all this would be much easier if we weren't so successful, didn't have the great [research] track record...