Word: pathways
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Apparently, though it is right under their noses, not everyone at Harvard Medical School is aware of the experimental education program, or New Pathway, making its debut on campus this fall. After three years of planning, the program has opened its doors to its first cadre of students...
Educators like Dr. Daniel C. Losteson 'c44, dean of the Medical School, and Dr. Gordon T. Moore, director of the New Pathway, designed the Oliver Wendell Holmes Society--as the program has been dubbed--in response to an information explosion in modern medicine...
...emphasis has shifted, from quantity to quality. Instead of packing facts into their brains during long hours in large lecture halls, New Pathway students are learning problem-solving methods in small tutorials. In place of sitting alongside their 165 classmates, all absorbing material like dialysis bags, the New Pathway students are beginning to gain clinical experience. They may--if the program works--become better doctors as a result...
...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...