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Emphasizing small-group problem-solving and computer instruction, the program would annually accept 25 college sophomores to follow a specialized curriculum through their final two undergraduate years, four years of med school, and first year of hospital training...
...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...
...father died when Bernardin was six, and the boy, his younger sister and their mother moved in with a series of aunts and uncles. Intent on becoming a doctor, he finished one year as a pre-med student at the University of South Carolina. Then Bernardin surprised his family by deciding to enter the priesthood. Says he: "I don't want to sound dramatic, but it must have been the Lord. I had a very definite feeling that I was being called to the priesthood...