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...Daniel C. Tosteson '44, dean of the Med School, proposed the program last spring in response to what he--and other educators--have cited as a need for revamping medical curricula to deal with the recent explosion in medical-related information resulting from new discoveries and technology...
...know extraordinarily more than we can manage," Tosteson said yesterday, adding that while the information that doctors need to master is expanding at an extremely rapid rate, "the capacity of human beings, including doctors, to cope with all that isn't changing at the same rate...
...Tosteson didn't return repeated phone calls, but Murphy said his Fort Detrick laboratory is specially sealed and sterilized and is run only by well-trained personnel...
...Richard Finkelstein, a noted geneticist at the University of Missouri, recently argued in a letter to Medical School Dean Daniel C. Tosteson that the experiment should be cancelled, one of a handful of protests by leading genetics experts of the planned experiment...
...plan is currently undergoing preliminary discussions, but if it is approved. Tosteson hopes that it will eventually clear the way for a similar overall plan at the Med School. But, he says, sweeping alterations would not be considered for at least several years...