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...first-year Med School students who are the New Pathway's first-year guinea pigs began their studies immediately confronted with clinical cases--from acne to appendicitis--as the context for learning basic medical principles. Prompted to ask the right questions instead of memorizing the right answers, students in the six-person tutorials that form the core of the program have responded enthusiastically, taking charge of their own learning...
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...
Ruth Sager, Med School professor of Cellular Genetics, said getting such an important award "will help us recruit highly talented individuals to join our laboratory...