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...changing medical climate and heightened financial pressure have made it increasingly difficult for the administration of Harvard Medical School (HMS) to get its clinical faculty to spend time teaching, according to many at the school...
According to Lecturer on Neurobiology David L. Cardozo, who is head of the Task Force, HMS has nearly 9,000 faculty and a policy stating that each of those faculty must contribute 50 hours a year to teaching “if asked.” Under the current system, however, some said that because of financial incentives, doctors spend too little time teaching and more time seeing patients...
...went on to explain that the problem of decreased teaching participation is one faced by medical schools throughout the country and not specific to HMS...
...problem is more accountability because the med school is separate from its teaching hospitals,” said HMS student Kevin King, who served as the school’s student council president from 2001-2002, “There’s nothing definite to coerce [the clinical faculty] to teach, and nothing bad the school can do to them if they’re really atrocious to students...
...HMS researchers have also submitted proposals for BioShield funding for a BSL-3 laboratory—a slightly lower-security facility that would allow researchers to work with the tuberculosis and HIV viruses. Unlike the BSL-4 facility, this proposed facility would not be unique to the area, and a few already exist in the Longwood area...