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...HMS, along with the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), recently announced that it would create an endowment to enable medical school professors to spend more time teaching. The endowments--$10 million at HMS, $5 million at UCSF--will fund academies of medical educators within the two schools...
...Academy initiative is the brainchild of Dr. Daniel H. Lowenstein, dean of medical education at HMS. Formerly stationed at UCSF, Lowenstein convinced both schools to pursue the project...
...HMS, the new Academy will be comprised of 200 to 300 of the most gifted teachers on staff. Whereas most medical school professors are not paid for their teaching, the endowment will allow HMS to partially compensate its best teachers...
Administrators at both HMS and UCSF are raising funds for the endowment, seeking both private donations as well as institutional grants...
Lowenstein said he hopes the program will help shift HMS's overall priorities...