“Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.”

The lines above, taken from Bob Dylan's song My Back Pages, sum up pretty well the contents and intents of this page.

A little look to the past, a look to the present and the future.

What appears below now are just a couple of musings -- and an occasional rant.

Updated 1-18-06.

Coming whenever the mood strikes me: more revelations and professings.
Learning -- and teaching -- pharmacology: It's the memorization, stupid! No, it's not just memorization, stupid! Take a look at my spin on how to learn “pharmacology” and why many of you are getting misled in what you learn, how you learn it, and what you're taught.
Travels to “The U” The odd path of my professional travels from work hard-play hard (and slightly insane) University of Miami, FL, to stodgy PC-Michigan, and lessons learned along the way.
The New Curriculum This chapter, which I wrote for a book a colleague is compiling about the history of the Department of Pharmacolgy, had to be “edited” (or, as I view it, cleansed) before it would be published. Read the unedited version, which apparently ruffled too many feathers, and decide for yourself.

Deanieweenieville		 Curricular reform at UMMS in the 90s, life in dean-hell, and worries about the future of medical education.
Created 7 May 2002. All files linked here are © Marshal Shlafer, 2008, all rights reserved.