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Needed: A New Way to Train Doctors

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New Directions for Medical Education

Part of the book series: Frontiers of Primary Care ((PRIMARY))

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In May 1983, at its final meeting of the year, the Harvard Faculty of Medicine gave its approval to the dean and a group of professors to create an experimental curriculum. Limited at first to 25 students per year, this program has now been incorporated in the core curriculum. The initiative may well be Harvard’s most impressive innovation of the 1980s. Instead of merely tinkering with course requirements or shifting hours of instruction from one subject to another, the authors of the program have begun by making a fresh appraisal of the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that physicians today and tomorrow need to possess. On this foundation will be built an entirely new curriculum. Not only does it seek to alter what students learn; it plans sweeping innovations in the methods by which they are taught.

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  1. Derek Bok
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Limburg, The Netherlands

    Henk G. Schmidt Ph.D. (Professor of Health Professions), Marten W. de Vries M.D (Professor of Social Psychiatry) & Jacobus M. Greep M.D. (Former Dean, Professor of Surgery) (Professor of Health Professions),  (Professor of Social Psychiatry) &  (Former Dean, Professor of Surgery)

  2. New York University Medical Center, School of Medicine, New York, NY, 10016, USA

    Mack Lipkin Jr. M.D. (Director, Primary Care; Associate Professor of Medicine) (Director, Primary Care; Associate Professor of Medicine)

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Bok, D. (1989). Needed: A New Way to Train Doctors. In: Schmidt, H.G., Lipkin, M., de Vries, M.W., Greep, J.M. (eds) New Directions for Medical Education. Frontiers of Primary Care. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3472-2_2

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