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...more and more medical schools are using similar programs--encouraged by what HMS officials say is a high rate of satisfaction among students...
According to HMS Dean for Medical Education Daniel D. Federman '49, HMS developed the new curriculum in the early Eighties by combining elements of problem-based learning programs at other schools...
About 60 percent of HMS' first two years is taught in small-group tutorials, with the other 40 percent being done in traditional lecture courses. But Federman says that students spend 80 percent of their studying time on their problem-based learning courses...
...real innovation of the New Pathway is that the biological sciences are taught in a tutorial fashion rather than a lecture fashion," says Byron J. Good, professor of medical anthropology at HMS...
Financial concerns--small group courses require more faculty than a lecture-based curriculum--also hamper some schools from following HMS...