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Education

• 07.20.08
  Rote learning and problem solving
  Education (1)

  This is one of the best blog discussions I've ever seen: WSJ Health Blog: Do Pre-Meds Really Need that Year of Organic Chemistry? There are some excellent points, pro-and-con, that apply to a lot more than just pre-med education. I've been involved in some of these same arguments in debates about curriculum change in our local K-12 school district. My antenna picked up a bad signal when I saw these words from the academic dean of Harvard's med school: "[The curriculum] could be more focused on hypothesis generation and solving problems rather than doing the rote exercises that ...