Word: pathways
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Medical School students are divided into four "societies" as part of the New Pathway program. The societies serve advising functions similar to those of the undergraduate houses...
...reference is apt. Like Thoreau, Iyer combines an acute sense of place with a mordant irony. The revealing detail is his specialty: he recalls "an old monk brush, brush, brushing a pathway clean . . . a sitting Buddha imparting a peace so strong it felt like wisdom . . . Yet one could never forget the world entirely. Floating up from below came the sound, plangent and forlorn, of a garbage collector's truck playing its melancholy song...
Tosteson has also said that he wants to make the New Pathway curriculum, begun several years ago under his tenure as dean, a top priority. The program is designed to educate students in small tutorials, emphasizing patient-doctor relationships and ethical issues, rather than rote memorization of huge volumes of medical facts...
...Medical School class of 1991 is the first graduating class to have been educated entirely under the New Pathway, says the dean. "There is a feeling of commitment to and enthusiasm for the educational process that is vigorous and healthy," he says...
...Harvard Medical School by medical students from Charles University in Prague, Czechoslovakia, was a rewarding educational experience for both parties involved. Thanks largely to our guests' remarkable fluency in English, we were able to share with them some of the innovations in our medical curriculum--both the "Common Pathway," as it is now called, and the Health Sciences & Technology (HST) programs--and learn about the challenges they face as students in a radically shifting society. Communication was truly the key to the project's success...