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...Harvard Medical School(HMS) announced this week that the Exxon Foundation has granted $500,000 over the next three years to the revolutionary New Pathway curriculum to help defray operational costs...
...really finally here. Almost. The much heralded, long awaited New Pathway program--designed to offer more humane medical training through smaller classes and hands on teaching--will start to start this fall. This year, the applicants will try for the 25 places in the first-ever class, for next fall. A preliminary draft of proposals, approved over the summer, named committees who are now working on faculty recruitment, allocation of educational resources, and curriculum development...
Modeled on a pioneering system at the McMaster medical school in Toronto, the New Pathway will be one of the first American medical programs to teach through case examples, which have been used at the Harvard Business School for decades...
...there, it is relayed in a bewildering flurry of chemical messages to the brain, first to the thalamus, where sensations like heat, cold, pain and touch first become conscious. Then on to the cerebral cortex, where the intensity and location of pain are recognized. This final stretch of the pathway is the great terra incognita in pain research. Says Fields...
...report praised an alternative program the Medical School has been developing, designed to alleviate pressure on pre-meds and to integrate humanities and basic sciences. The "New Pathway," which will accept 25 students on an experimental basis in the fall of 1985, is a five-year program, extending into the first year of residency. Modeled on the progressive system at the McMaster University Medical School in Toronto, the program will be case-based, emphasizing the study of specific incidents rather than broad-based disease analysis, with lectures limited...