The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, June 9, 1982 "-Page 3 NEW EMPHASIS ON COMPASSIONATE HEALING Harvard to overhaul med school BOSTON (AP)- On its 200th anniversary, Harvard Medical School is planning to overhaul the way it trains doctors in an effort to produce compassionate healers who can cope with the explosive growth of knowledge and technology. The movement, if successful, would affect everything from the first undergraduate science courses to on-the-job training and would abandon the curriculum that has evolved since the medical school was founded in 1782. STUDENTS WOULD spend the same amount of time in training. But the men and women would enter the medical school after their sophomore year in college, rather than after senior year, and spend the next seven years, through the first year of residency, in academic work and clinical training. By the fall of 1983, Harvard hopes to admit 25 students to an experimental program. If it works, the new approach will be expanded to the entire 670- member student body. "This is not a marginal adjustment of what we are doing," Dr. Daniel Tosteson, dean of the medical school, said ina recent interview. "It is an attempt to take a look at the whole sequence of general medical education." TODAY'S MEDICAL students, he said, are cram- med full of facts with little regard for what infor- mation a doctor really needs. And they are kept so busy they have no time to know the senior physicians who should be molding their careers. The medical school program envisioned by Tosteson is intended to: * Instill students with traditional values that some say have been eroded in recent years: Care and con- cern for patients' well-being, the dedication to choosing the correct treatment and a willingness to assume responsibility for professional behavior. * Show students how to teach themselves, especially by using computers to keep up with the growth of medical knowledge. * Revamp the curriculum to eliminate much of the technical detail and emphasize the basic knowledge needed by all doctors. " Combine the three parts of medical education: Undergraduate college, medical school and residen- cy program. Tosteson said Harvard will still educate specialists, but the new program acknowledges that students cannot learn each specialty. In a draft proposal being circulated at Harvard, the dean wrote that the processes "of selecting persons who respect and care for others, who care enough to work at learning and the nurture of these feelings during medical education need improvement." For these ideals to rub off, Tosteson says, students need more close contact with teachers. He proposes that pupils and professors work together in small groups in required medical courses. Not everyone is convinced this will work. When Tosteson outlined the program for the faculty, Dr. Edwin Cassem said he doubted character could be taught. Med school admissions from 'U' top nation By EVELYN SAMMUT U.S. medical schools accepted more students last year from the University than from any other school in the coun- try, according to a recently released University study. The acceptance rate among Unvier- sity applicants, 58 percent, also was well above the national average of 47 percent, according to the report prepared by Louis Rice, director of the University's Pre-Professional Office. "CERTAINLY the quality of the student body at the Unviersity con- tributes to the success of Michigan students," Rice said. "In addition, the quality of the academic programs is L EWiS clearly recognized around the country a competitive." In addition the report showed that the percentage of Unviersity students who at the applied and were accepted to U.S. den- ge the tal schools, 66 percent, was higher than the national average, 63 percent. "Michigan's maintaining the traditions of success in pe-professional students continues to attract capable students to the University because of fl the reputation," he said. "We hope to continue to have success in this area," he added. a fund for ACCORDING to admissions coun- ents would selor Lance Erickson, at least 24 per- r students cent of this year's entering freshman 00 students indicated on entrance exams that they s at cam- are considering pursuing a professional in Prescott education, such as medicine, dentistry med forces or law. States and He added, however, that students espondence usually take these tests a year in ad- ollment to vance of their admission to the Univer- sity and may change their minds by the which bills time they enter college. fully ac- The University traditionally has a university, large number of students interested in eronautical professional schools, Rice said. The gement and Pre-Professional Office helps these hnology. students by "giving them the best in- aerospace formation about application strategy, eywell and professional schools, and self- as with assessment guides," Rice added. Daily Photo by DEBORAH No Coke, Pepsi Pepsi-Cola employee Betty Jane Bush distributes two unmarked cups of cola to a thirsty volunteer yesterday; trailer-housed Pepsi Challenge on the corner of Huron and 4th. At least 175 passersby stopped to imbibe and jud complementary Coke and Pepsi during the cola competition, which ends today. Trusteeship for sale: $1IMlijo DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - The cost of becoming a trustee at Embry- Riddle Aeronautical Unviersity might be considered lofty-its $1 million. That's the price tag put on an offer for trusteeships at the Florida school nicknamed the "Harvard of the Sky" in an advertisement in the Wall Street Journal. THE SCHOOL, founded in 1926 by two young fliers who decided to train pilots for their mail carrier service, says it needs the money for loans to students who pay more than $20,000 in tuition for a four-year course of study. Its June 1 newspaper ad offered a "limited opportunity" to become a trustee of an unidentified university "if you are willing to invest $1,000,000 cash minimum for financial assistance to students .. ." The ad assures readers that such an investment is tax exempt. A telephone number was listed above a line that said: "All inquiries treated in strictest confidence." . "People havefound it's refreshing in that it's very direct, very open, very honest," said Embry-Riddle Chancellor Jeffrey Ledewitz. So far, more than 70 people from across the country have responded to the ad, he said, adding, "In the respon- se we had, we do have one or two poten- tial donors." INQUIRIES also have come from other institutins, including Yale University, about the success of the ef- fort, Ledewitz said. Embry-Riddle wants to find donors who are intersted in "investing in students, not in brick and mortar," he said. Donations would go to student loans, and repaym go back into the fund for othe EMBRY-RIDDLE has 5,0 in baccalaureate program puses in Daytona Beach and Arizona. Members of the ar at 70 bases in the United abroad take part-time corr courses, bringing total enr more than 11,000. The four-year institution, itself as the world's only credited, aviation-oriented offers degrees including a engineering, aviation manaj aircraft engineering tec Graduates work for such giants as Boeing Co., Hon Bell Aerospace as well airlines.