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U of Vermont medical school to get rid of all lecture courses

U of Vermont medical school to get rid of all lecture courses

Four years after two senior academics at Stanford University challenged medical schools to stop lecturing and start flipping their classrooms, major reforms at underway at a handful of colleges to change the way they teach medicine.The University of Vermont last week became the most recent institution to join the trend, announcing a pedagogical reform in its College of Medicine that observers say is the most sweeping yet.The college will over the next several years remove all lecture courses, replacing them with videos students watch on their own time.


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UVM names medical school in honor of Dr. Robert Larner

UVM names medical school in honor of Dr. Robert Larner

The University of Vermont announced today an estate commitment with an estimated current market value of $66 million from UVM dual-degree alum and Vermont native Robert Larner '39, M.D.'42, and his wife, Helen.The commitment to donate – the largest gift ever to a public university in New England – caps decades of philanthropic support from the Larners, whose lifetime giving now will likely reach $100 million.


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University of Maryland medical school recruiting dream teams of top docs, scientists

University of Maryland medical school recruiting dream teams of top docs, scientists

The University of Maryland School of Medicine has embarked on the most ambitious recruiting drive of its 210-year history — an effort to hire top scientists with the goal of making its biomedical research programs the best in the country.The mission, Dean E. Albert Reece said, is to attract by 2020 scores of researchers who will focus on finding new cures and treatments with a particular focus on three key areas — brain disorders, cancer, and cardiovascular and metabolic diseases — which are among the leading causes of death.The medical school has hired a professional recruiting firm to help — something it does for senior positions, but never on such a large scale.