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...proposal represents a modified version of a new curriculum suggested last May by Med School Dean Daniel C Tosteson...
...Medical education is not in optimum health," declares Dr. Daniel Tosteson, dean of Harvard Medical School. What is worse, he adds, is that "there is little agreement on the diagnosis and treatment." Indeed, virtually every med school dean in the country has his own prescriptions for fixing what is wrong. Last week, for instance, prestigious Johns Hopkins School of Medicine announced a plan to guarantee admission to students still in their junior year of college. The purpose, said Hopkins Dean Richard Ross, is to encourage students to take a broader and more flexible approach to their senior year. Said...
...Tipped off by two other researchers, Laboratory Director Robert Kloner found that Darsee had been faking dates on reports to make a few hours' work look like two weeks' worth of data. Kloner informed Braunwald, who terminated Darsee's fellowship and notified Medical School Dean Daniel Tosteson. But Braunwald accepted Darsee's plea that this was his sole offense. Unwilling to destroy the career of what he called "an apparently brilliant researcher," Braunwald did not inform NIH officials. Instead, he and Kloner conducted their own audit of Darsee's work and supervised him closely during...
...from all five centers involved in the N.H.L.B.I, study were released, it was clear that the Harvard data were inconsistent with the rest. Only then did Braunwald and Kloner inform NIH officials about the incident in May. Investigations into Darsee's work were formally initiated by both Dean Tosteson and the NIH. Meanwhile, Braunwald and Kloner redoubled their efforts to unmask the fraud. Said Braunwald last week: "We began to think like Sherlock Holmes...
...Tosteson could not be reached for comment last night Braunwald declined to comment on the matter because an investigation of work Darsee performed at Emory University before coming to Harvard is underway...