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...Which way to the New Pathway Project...
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...
...Medical School, the New Pathway program, a pioneer project in medical education beginning this fall, is designed, among other things, to increase student-faculty contact, eliminate lecturing and concentrate on computer technology to simulate real-life medical situations...