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...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...
...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...