Dean Winternitz and the Yale System
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Dr. Michael Kashgarian reflects on Dean Milton Winternitz’s reforms at the Yale School of Medicine. Winternitz gave students unprecedented freedom to follow their own interests, a system that still distinguishes medical education at Yale.
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