In Medical School Shift, Meeting Patients on Day 1

Posted by Kendall Harmon

For generations, medical students have spent two years in classrooms and laboratories, memorizing body parts and dissecting specimens, eagerly anticipating the triumphant third year when they would be immersed in working with actual people who have actual diseases.

Upending that century-old tradition, the aspiring doctors who started their training at New York University School of Medicine last week got to meet real patients on their very first day. But not to worry — they were armed only with laptop computers, not scalpels.

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