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...Pathway program is perhaps the most comprehensive example of "problem-based learning"--a philosophy of teaching that has students work in small groups to solve specific clinical "cases...
According to HMS Dean for Medical Education Daniel D. Federman '49, HMS developed the new curriculum in the early Eighties by combining elements of problem-based learning programs at other schools...
...purpose is not to diagnose or learn to treat the patient, but to understand the science...that underlies the problem," Federman says...
About 60 percent of HMS' first two years is taught in small-group tutorials, with the other 40 percent being done in traditional lecture courses. But Federman says that students spend 80 percent of their studying time on their problem-based learning courses...
Officials praise the method because it allows students watch a problem unfold from Monday to Friday and take information from several different clinical areas at once...