Harvard School of Medicine - Aesculapiad Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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1967 was a year of transition. Only a rare member of the class of 1971 had a classical biology background, so we had you en- gineer a cardiovascular system on the first day of the course. Some of the power sources pro- posed were so unusual that Harvey would not have recog- nized the Heart as a Pump. We experimented with syllabi on Body Fluids, Capillaries and Lympnatics as substitutes for lectures, and the laboratory was reduced solely to the mammali- an experiment. - A. Clifford Barger l '-1 Richard D. Berlin 10 1 1 f v U Emmanuel G. Cassimatis

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.. if I X' The relationship of the medical profession to society provides mechanisms that enable the doctor patient relationship to occur. Systems of delivery of medical care are quite properly one of society's main concerns. Whatever the form or system of medical care, the one-to-one doctor patient relationship is the essential unit or building block which, in the aggregate, must always form the edifice of medi- cal care, whatever its ultimate architecture , . . The Art of Medicine is more than a gracious bedside man- nerg it consists of the skillful ap- plication of scientific knowledge for the maintenance of health or the amelioration of disease. To develop the requisite science and art of medicine is the es- sential purpose of the six or seven years of medical school and hospital apprenticeship. - Herrman Blumgart -+l -ik' -. Yi ff WP-1.3.3 iii! ,

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The Admission Committee sees as its role the conscientious and thorough evaluation of every applicant who applies to Har- vard Medical School and the at- tempt to select from this group those students for whom a l-lar- vard Medical School education gives promise of developing their full potential. Such powers as the ability to control the fu- ture destiny ot American medi- cine and to solve social prob- lems by the selection process have been attributed to the Committee on Admissions. This would appear to be totally naive and unrealistic if one looks at the career choices of all stu- dents compared to their stated or intended initial interest upon applying to the Harvard Medical School. Career choices and contributions to the medical field vvill be determined by the models in the faculty with which the student comes in contact, by the social pressures of socie- ty at large to some extent and by the opportunities both pro- fessionally and academically which become available to the graduate at any given time. Many graduates of Harvard Medical School have multiple careers. In view of these fac- tors, the basic philosophy of the Admission Committee is to se- lect the most promising and ex- citing applicants presented to them in the Applicant Pool-each year and let the Medical School students through mutual cataly- sis strive to reach their poten- tials,, - Perry J. Culver .,, s f. I .. va .X L. -- ' 'rf-fts1fe ' l