Medical schools revise curricula to adapt to changing world

Courtesy washingtonpost.com - Health  Mon, 11/09/2009 - 19:30

When Aaron Laviana started medical school at Georgetown University in 2007, he dissected a cadaver in his first week, in anatomy class.

Today, classes such as "Physician-Patient Communication" and "Social and Cultural Issues in Health Care" come first.

Dissection doesn't begin until month four at...

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