Harvard scientists split on curriculum reform

2010 Lmu‐harvard Young Scientists' Forum

Medical Education and Curriculum Reform:

The purpose of this paper is to elaborate criteria by which the principles of curriculum reform can be judged. To this end, the paper presents an overview of standard critiques of medical education and examines the ways medical curriculum reforms have responded to these critiques. The paper then sets out our assessment of these curriculum reforms along three parameters: pedagogy, educational co...

Curriculum reform: a narrated journey.

OBJECTIVES Curriculum reform poses significant challenges for medical schools across the globe. Understanding the medical educator's personal and lived experience of curriculum change is paramount. This paper illustrates the use of narrative inquiry as a means of exploring the author's own evolving professional identity as a medical educator engaged in planning and leading curriculum reform and...

Approaches to Multicultural Curriculum Reform

THE HARVARD HOUSING LOTTERY : RATIONALITY AND REFORM Susan

This paper studies allocation schemes Harvard has used to assign undergraduates to residential houses. The main conclusions are as follows. First, students appear to behave remarkably rationally. Second, simulations suggest that, given rationality, Harvard's allocation scheme sometimes allocates fewer students to one of their top three choices than would occur under an alternative system that g...