Word: meds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Students will see patients practically from the first day of med school," said Eleanor McLoughlin, the Medical School's curriculum coordinator. She added that "ethics will be fundamentally incorporated" into the new program...
While Bok's analysis and suggestions were broad-ranging, his principal message was loud and clear: med schools aren't doing a good enough a job in preparing students for the fast-changing world of professional medicine. Their faults include, according...
...credit, Bok forthrightly brings the Harvard med School to task for shortcomings. He notes, for instance, the dearth of required courses in the behavioral sciences he sees as so necessary to a well-rounded medical education. And he offers encouraging words of support for the development of a new Med School curriculum that would place greater emphasis on emotional and psychological aspects of a doctor's training and which might lead to a rethinking of premedical requirements...
...forces have combined to alter the body of medical knowledge, the way in which doctors practice their craft, and the system of delivering health care services in the country," he writes. These forces have propelled many of the very questions Bok raises to the top of the agenda in med schools and hospitals around the country...
...were truly concerned about the state of medical education in this country, he would step up pressure on Med School and faculty officials to continue reforms in these areas right now. That would mean more than all the pronouncements his well-meaning Mass Hall paper mills is able to churn...