Medical School
THE FIRST SEMESTER of the new Medical School schedule is nearing an end with all students apparently holding up well. The second semester will bring in the first major change in the curriculum, the integrated course in physiology and physiological chemistry, which will require the entire day for three days each week. It is expected that more significant and efficient utilization of labora- tory time will be permitted under this plan.
The new College curriculum as recom- mended by the Committee on Educational Policy, which was adopted at the last meeting of the College Faculty, includes a required course for all seniors to meet thrice weekly for a year on "Great Issues of the Modern World." This will be the first time for many years that there has been an opportunity for medical students enrolled as seniors in absentia from the College to continue any portion of the liberal arts curriculum. It will require a further modification of the Medical School program, however, which may result in the advancement of some course or subdivision into the junior year. It is not anticipated that this new College course will be available until the Autumn of'"1947.
As a beginning of the postwar program the Department of Pathology of Medical School and Hospital is resuming Clinical-Pathological Conferences for the present monthly, and usually on the third Wednesday, in the Hospital lecture room. The case details will be mailed one week in advance to all who request them. Participants are invited to bring a lunch and an attempt will be made to limit the meeting to one hour beginning promptly at noon. When possible coffee will be served. Dr. Ralph E. Miller, Professor of Pathology and Director of Laboratories, will be in charge of the presentation.
John Bartlett Holyoke, B.S. Nebraska 1937; M.D. ibid. 1939; Instructor in Anatomy, Nebraska 1939-40; Internship, Colorado General Hospital 1940-41: Internship, Pediatrics and Pathology, ibid. 1941-42; Teaching Fellow in Pathology, Dartmouth, 1942-44; Fellow in Pathology, Mayo Foundation, 1944—, will return on October first as Assistant Professor of Pathology.
The Trustees of the College and Hospital have established Veteran's Fellowships for postgraduate study in the various departments of the School and Hospital to the number of fourteen divided into four classes: junior fellowships at the mixed residency level; senior fellowships at the residency level; basic science fellowships in Anatomy, Pathology, and the Physiological Sciences; and clinical fellowships. The stipend without maintenance will vary from SIBOO to $2400 and appointments will ordinarily be for three terms or one calendar year and renewable but may be for one term or four months only if circumstances and the nature of the work needed makes such appropriate.
The School has been invited by the Surgeon General of the Veterans Administration through the Office of Professional Research and Education to cooperate in the establishment of a residency program at the Veterans Hospital Center in White River Junction, Vt., for veteran medical officers who wish to qualify for certification by the various specialty boards. This hospital as organized at present has 239 beds and last year provided over 50,000 patient days service. A Dean's Committee has been appointed and the possibilities are being surveyed. In anticipation a number of applications for residencies have already been received.
The Dean and Prof. Leslie K. Sycamore represented the School and Hospital at the Annual Congress on Medical Education and Licensure and the National Conference on Medical Service held in Chicago in February. They also visited Hines Hospital to learn about the cooperative plan in operation there under the auspices of the Veterans Administration and the Medical Schools of Northwestern and Illinois. At the Palmer House they met Creighton Barker M'l3 and Deering G. Smith M'lB representing Connecticut and New Hampshire respectively.
John P. Bowler, Professor of Surgery, represented the School and Hospital at the February meeting of the New England Surgical Society.
William Avery Ellis, Teaching Fellow in Anatomy, presented a paper to the January staff meeting entitled "Thrombophlebitis and Thromboembolism."
At the annual meeting of the Hospital Corporation William R. Brewster 'lB, Headmaster of Kimball Union Academy, and Russell R. Larmon 'l9, Professor of Administration, were elected to the Board of Trustees.
Colin C. Stewart, Assistant Professor of Physical Diagnosis and Pediatrics, has been appointed State Chairman for the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Julian P. Maes, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, represented the School at the Conference on Physico-Chemical Mechanism of Nerve Activity in February at the New York Academy of Sciences.
John A. Murtagh, Instructor in Otolaryngology, and John Milne, Instructor in Physical Diagnosis and Medicine, are decelerating at Rancho de la Osa, Sasabe, Arizona.
The New England Cancer Society met at the National Cancer Institute at Bethesda, Maryland on January 25th. Ralph E. Miller, Professor of Pathology, piloting his own plane, reported a pleasant and comfortable trip and a worthwhile program.
"Repeatability of Keratometric Readings" by Robert E. Bannon, Assistant Professor of Applied Physiological Optics in the Eye Institutes and Rita Walsh, quondam Clinical Fellow, was published in the January 1946 issue of the American Journal of Ophthalmology. 1895 H. Sheridan Baketel has forsaken Greenland (N. H.) for Cameo on the Gulf at Pass-a-Grill Beach, Fla. As a Patron of Husbandry he is most interested in certain subtropical horticulture at the moment. 1929 Milton Emmet Hoefle, who was practicing Surgery on the staff o£ Methodist in Brooklyn in June 1945, joined the 79th General Hospital as Captain for overseas duty. In November he had reached Camp White for staging and nine months later was still there. He took in Camp Shanks also but finally landed at Liverpool in October 1943 for duty at Moira, Northern Ireland where his hospital serviced the Bad Airborne, the 2d, sth, and Bth Divisions and the 15th Corps during the training period for the Normandy beaches. In September 1944 he took over Royal Victoria for the Navy at Southampton. In May he hit LeHavre, then Verdun, Sissone, and went to Compifegne with the 68th Station Hospital when the 79th broke up. He shifted to Naples to join the 300 th General in November 1945, and came home via Rome, Casa Blanca, the Azores, Newfoundland and LaGuardia Field. He is on 98 days terminal leave from Fort Dix and enjoying his majority which finally caught up with him. He says he finds Hanover a very tolerable place to spend some time getting acquainted with his wife and son and trying to decide what to do next.
79?-/ Ralph Sayward Keyes, who finished a fifteen months' internship here in December 1938; spent a few months in Pennacook and Manchester pending an appointment to the staff of the Student Health Service at Cornell in Ithaca. In June of that year the pioneer spirit got the upper hand and he accepted an invitation to Cody, Wyoming, where he was received cordially by everyone except the State Board of Licensure which treated him like a foreign refugee because of his McGill degree. He then went West to Longview, Washington, and after a year, liking what he found, he went back to Dayton, Ohio; married Mary Ann Turner; and settled in Walla Walla. Then the Army Air Force sent him to Kearns, Utah, to Miami Beach, to Kearns, to Miami Beach, and to Greensboro. In May 1944 he went from there to India with the 301 st Service Group and spent the rest of the war in Assam and Burma. Captain Keyes now wants more training and then he'll be off westward to Walla Walla.
1957 Walter Everett Chase finished 21 months at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in June 1941 and took a year in neuropsychiatry at Kalamazoo where in June 1942 he was commissioned and assigned to the Clearing Station Hospital with the old 26th Y.D. at Camp Edwards. Then in July he went to Camp A. P. Hill. In October he became Battalion Surgeon with the 101 st Artillery only to have it discovered that he lacked indoctrination and must go to Carlisle. He rushed back to the division at Fort Meade only to be sent to the Army Medical School for a course in tropical medicine. There he found Professor Connell and his classmate Gordon Brown. He caught up with the 26th at Fort Jackson, S. C., and went with it to Fort Gordon, Ga. By that time it was September 1943, so he went to Camp Campbell in Kentucky for more training. Then came the Tennessee manoeuvres and transfer in February to the Clearing Station Hospital of the 79th Division at Camp Phillips at Salina, Kansas. Feeling that he had been around the clock at least twice, he started East. Staging at Camp Standish he sailed on April 17, 1944 from Boston to Glasgow, thence to Hartford for invasion technique. He embarked at Tiverton, hit Utah Beach and went up the center aisle between the 9th and 4th first into Cherbourg, having shuttled six times between clearing and battalion stations. His outfit broke out of the peninsula on the right; was first over the Seine; hit the Belgian border number one and joined Patton'i 3d to link up with the 7th in crossing the Moselle at Luneville. They worked Foret de Parroy, the Saverne Gap across Alsace and into Germany at Berg, and held three German divisions at Hatten and Rittershaffen. Then the outfit was taken out of the line and on February 9th sent to Holland for training in river crossing: went over the Rhine ai Dinslaken: cleaned out the Ruhr, taking Es sen and Gelsinkirchen, and sat tight at Herne. On June 15 they went to Czecho-Slovakia for occupation duty and in August to Warzberg. The homeward move came on November 15 with orders to Calas near Marseilles. Then the long stormy trip on the old Swedish American Liner John Erickson to New York; to Kilmer on December 10, then Fort Meade and out. On February 15, 1944 as the real romantic interlude in Washington, D. C. he married Maxine Phelps of Barre, Vermont whom he found in OWI during his course at the Army Medical College. He has just finished his third and longest honeymoon. He wears the Croix de Guerre with Silver Star and the Silver Star Medal but is uncertain about what follows after the terminal leave.
Comdr. Francis B. Soule Jr., MC USNR may be still demobilizing the Navy at BuMed in Washington but is hoping to have demobilized himself back into pediatrics before now. 1940 Edward Phillips Wells MC AUS has been promoted to Major and appointed Chief of Radiology in the 117 th Evacuation Hospital which would be all very well, his wife says, except that it took place in Austria. 1941 "Frank and Emily Brooks have just had a baby and I've a cigar in my pocket to prove it," says Brad Copeland M' 43 on January 31st.
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