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When Daniel C. Tosteson '44 steps down from his post as dean of the Medical School (HMS) this June, he will leave his successor expanded research facilities, a recently remodeled campus and a new emphasis on individualized learning...
...Tosteson's replacement, neurologist Joseph B. Martin, inherits his position in an era of dramatically restructured health care systems and of reduced federal research funding...
Currently, the school pulls in more than $400 million in federal research grants each year. Its endowment now exceeds $840 million, up from the $138 million mark of 19 years ago when Tosteson began his deanship...
...Tosteson and other HMS faculty members pioneered a medical education program called the New Pathway which steered students away from rote memorization. Instead, medical students now spend more time discussing cases in small groups with faculty members...
...Pathway, regarded as Tosteson's crowning achievement, has won acclaim among medical students, who worry that the expensive program might suffer under Martin...