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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...
Aside from occasional soul-searching lapses, the New Pathway approach breeds confidence, its participants say. Without the imposing expertise of a professor, students don't hesitate to throw out their own ideas, guesses, questions...
...Pathway classroom resembles the laboratory of a research group. Students, not the teacher, write on the blackboard. Debate--something previously absent from the first-year curriculum--is encouraged.CrimsonWan Joon KimDr. DANIEL A. GOODENOUGH '66, at left, leads a New Pathway tutorial...
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...
...Pathway "is aimed at trying to determine what kind of training all physicians should share, no matter what they do," said Professor of Anatomy Dr. M. Judah Folkman, one of the program's teachers...