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Harvard Medical School has suspended funding for its Primary Care Division as part of a broader departmental restructuring effort, prompting students and faculty to circulate a petition calling on HMS Dean Jeffrey S. Flier to reaffirm the School's commitment to primary care education.
Nevertheless, as of Thursday afternoon, over 450 individuals had signed the online petition, including students, residents, faculty, and physicians from HMS and its affiliated hospitals. The petition calls for the School's administration to present a detailed plan of action for expanding institutional support despite the budget cut, expand loan...
Singer, who said he has signed the petition, is also leading the recently-organized Harvard Primary Care Reform Working Group, which aims to collect and synthesize specific ideas and recommendations from individuals across HMS and its affiliated hospital community in order to aid the administration in promoting primary care education...
But despite administrators' reassurances that primary care education remains a top priority at the Medical School, some students and faculty maintain that the cut sends a negative message about the School's priorities, which they say have traditionally centered on specialty medicine and research. And the petition expressed concern about...
In an address to graduating students at Moscow's New Economic School, Obama described the "universal values" not as an ideal form of government but as a way of correcting inevitably imperfect governments. He spoke mainly of the American example - how freedom of speech allows minorities to petition for equal...