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For several weeks early this fall, the sounds of
jackhammers and bulldozers greeted visitors to the Woodruff Health
Sciences Center administration building. Next door, demolition crews
were busy tearing apart the 1970s-era concrete slab “connector”
linking the School of Medicine’s anatomy and physiology buildings.
In its place, a new teaching and administration
building will complete a physical transformation of the 151-year-old
medical school, giving it a new home.
And at the same time the school upgrades
the outside, more compelling changes are under way inside. In November,
a special steering committee completed work on a completely revamped
curriculum that will better prepare students for the realities of
medical practice, says medical school dean Thomas Lawley.
Implementation of the new curriculum
will start with the first-year class of 2007, just in time for the
opening of the school’s new building.
“The School of Medicine has
the opportunity to create a new standard for medical education,”
Lawley said during his annual State of the School address. “We
are at a place in our history where we have everything it takes
to create this new standard, not just here at Emory but throughout
the world.”
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