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Editor's Note: This is the first in a two-part series examining the New Pathway curriculum at Harvard Medical School...
Rather than forcing students to memorize large quantities of medical facts and spend hours each day in lecture, the "New Pathway" emphasizes problem-oriented learning, small group discussions, increased emphasis on patient-physician relationships and self-directed study...
...time of the curriculum's inception, some critics wondered whether New Pathway students would gain a solid enough grounding in the basic sciences to become competent doctors. Others questioned whether the program's emphasis on small-group interactions between faculty and students would be transferable to schools without Harvard's financial resources...
This year, the class of 1991, the first entire class to go through the New Pathway curriculum, graduates, and the report cards on the program are coming in. So far, most bear favorable marks...
Still, SRY is just one element in the mystery of maleness. "Sex determination involves a whole pathway of genes," observes MRC researcher Robin Lovell-Badge. "Now we have an entry point...