Word: meds
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...Daniel C. Tosteson '44, dean of the Med School, proposed the program last spring in response to what he--and other educators--have cited as a need for revamping medical curricula to deal with the recent explosion in medical-related information resulting from new discoveries and technology...
...program will soon submit a preliminary draft of goals to three student faculty working groups, each of which will focus on different aspects of the plan. After discussing the program, the committees are scheduled to draw up a final recommendation for faculty approval this spring Tosteson added the Med School plans to spent the next academic year retaining the program, choosing faculty and selecting students for the program...
Under the dean's plan, students would be eligible for admission after two years of college study in any discipline. Among the program's many unresolved details is whether the Med School would only consider sophomores from Harvard College, and whether accepted students should spend their first two years in the program at the Med School or within a specialized curriculum at their original schools...
While the seven-year plan would be instituted purely on a trial basis, it may one day serve as a model for changing the entire Med School curriculum. Officials have stressed that such a move is not being discussed yet, but a national association of medical schools is currently studying nationwide curriculum changes similar to those included in Harvard's experimental program...
Although a small number of the nation's 27 accredited Med Schools have instituted early admission programs from college or high school, Harvard's plan would be the first to extend into the first year of hospital residency...