New Jersey College of Medicine - Journal Yearbook (Jersey City, NJ)

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Ffa. ink ci p- nf, e A t 'gk lt '5'3 '- Like every other medical school in the United States, the New Jersey College of Medicine is taking a critical look at its curriculum. ln this time and place it is particularly appropriate that our school should be doing this. As a new institution being established in the midst of a decadent city, which can no longer be indentified as a viable community, we have unique opportunities for innovations in education, service and research. The staff of the Department of Biochemistry wants to be a part of this adventure. No matter how discordant we may be on the ultimate form of the curriculum, students and faculty alike agree on one ob- iective: the medical school experience of a student must be shortened. Toward this end we must grapple with three related problems: CU the indentification of a core curriculum, C25 en- couraging the student to have an early, continuing, and sig- nificant exposure to research and independent study, and l3l giving the student an early, continuing, and coordinated clinical experience. The Department of Biochemistry is helping to achieve the first two obiectives. Our greatest frustration, on the other hand, is realizing some role in the student's clinical training. Regretably, the biochemistry professor seldom sees the student again after his first few months in the medical school. With such stratification in medical education, it is small wonder that both students and faculty begin to question the relevancy of certain parts of the curriculum. We of the Department of Biochemistry want to change this situation. We want to be involved in the total educational experience of the student. What should be the role of biochemistry in the education of tomorrow's physicians? Certainly it cannot abandon its respon- sibilities to provide the student with relatively simple models of analytical biology early in his training. Likewise, it must con- tinue to help the student develop some of his arts and skills for self-education. With more elective time in the new curriculum we can anticipate closer relationships with the iunior and senior students. Equally important, we will also encourage interaction with the interns, residents, and clinical fellows, I am persuaded that this group of very busy young men must take much more initiative in suggesting innovative experiments in the medical education. The Department of Biochemistry will be responsive and will do all within its capacity to assure the achievement of our common goals. W. R. Frisell Professor and Chairman 17