A New Departure in Medical Education

Recently in these columns the problems facing medical educators were considered and the opinion voiced that in view of the sheer weight of expanding knowledge the medical curriculum must become either longer or more efficient.¹ In order to avoid increased length, some American schools are currently exploring various accelerated combinations of prebaccalaureate and postbaccalaureate programs, as has been done in Boston. A more streamlined approach has just been selected by Harvard's Subcommittee on Curriculum Planning in a document that could be as important to medicine as that framed by a turn-of-the-century Kentucky schoolmaster.² The preliminary report suggests for faculty consideration . . .