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About: History

Education Through the 1990s the Department continued to teach medical students, house officers, and post-graduate specialty fellows; this encompasses up to 11 years of physician training. In collaboration with basic science departments, pre- and postdoctoral Ph.D. trainees also receive education and experience in its laboratories. In the 1990s the department continued to teach medical students in each of the four years of medical school. It provided leaders and instructors in many of the courses in the first two years. All students took the 10-week medicine core clerkship in the third year, and the Department provided separate rotations in ambulatory care, electives in the medicine subspecialties, and a medicine subinternship in the fourth year. All of these activities continue and comprise a heavy teaching responsibility. In recognition of the importance of medical student teaching, Louis Sherwood appointed a Medical Student Education leader, William Frishman. This effort was expanded later into the Undergraduate Education Committee, headed by Shirley Levine.