Word: pathways
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...curriculum does seem to be working, and students are learning at a good clip. There's a sense of challenge and creative effort," said Dr. Gordon T. Moore, who chairs the New Pathway curriculum committee and oversees the program's daily operation...
Student Mark Silver said the Pathway "is working like a dream." He believes he "definitely gets more out of" the tutorials than he would have from a schedule full of lectures which "go in one ear and out the other...
Silver lauded the flexibility of the unconventional program, saying it allowed him to take a course on AIDS and immunology that he could not have taken if he were not a Pathway participant...
While observers of the New Pathway have applauded Harvard's efforts at reform, some have charged that the program's decreased emphasis on information-gathering will leave students inadequately prepared to tackle the critical end-of-school licensing exams...
Without question, Goodenough said, New Pathway students should be better prepared than others for the clinical exams, which are a battery of tests given in addition to the licensing tests...