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...Medical School, a lack of minority faculty has also not gone unnoticed. Med School administrators implemented a minority faculty development program this year, which they say is a comprehensive plan to boost the number of minority professors and faculty trainees at Harvard and other medical schools...
...Med School Dean Daniel C. Tosteson '44 says that low representation of minority faculty is a serious problem for Harvard, as well as for medical schools nationwide. In the October 18, 1990 issue of the school's newsletter, Tosteson wrote, "Nationally, the number of African-Americans applying to medical schools decreased from 2598 to 2160 between 1980 and 1989. The decrease was particularly marked among Black males. Moreover, the representation of minority groups in medical faculties at Harvard and throughout the nation has remained unacceptably...
...Grazette now in her fourth year at the Med School, there was an added stress. As a student in Harvard's "New Pathway" program, she was being filmed by a television crew for a documentary on the curriculum...
Implemented under the supervision of Med School Dean Daniel C. Tosteson '44, the New Pathway emphasizes small group tutorials over large lectures, less rote memorization of medical facts and more discussion of case studies...
Since his father is a doctor and one of his four sister is currently in medical school, Rafla-Demetrious was probably going to follow the pre-med track, his mother said...