Word: pathways
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...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...
...early reaction of both students and faculty is any indication, then it may be just a matter of time before the New Pathway becomes the route for all medical students at Harvard...