Medical College of Virginia - X Ray Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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Since the beginning of human life on the face of the earth, disease has played an important role in the daily living of man. Initially disease took its toll with man offering little if any resistance through drugs or treatments. Because of the lack of understanding of the disease pro- cesses people believed that disease was the infestation of or the occupying of a person by an evil spirit which could be cast out by going through various rituals and, or, offering sacrifices. As the knowledge of disease increased these rituals and sacrifices decreased in number, and the effective treatment of disease processes progressed from zero, to where it is today in a fashion somewhat similar to that of X , where n equals the knowledge of diseases at any given time from the beginning of medical knowledge to the present. It has only been through the development of this medical knowledge that the proper care and treatment of the patient with his disease process has been realized in this year- 1963. Because of its magnitude, it is necessary that each individual facet of the medical profession work closely together and co-operate closely to obtain the highest efficiency with respect to the care and treatment of the patient. It is to this cause that hundreds of young men and women have dedicated their lives. In order to qualify for this, these young people have to spend years of training in the various components of medical education, be it medi- cine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, physical therapy, medi- cal technology, hospital administration, graduate studies, x-ray technology, or dietetic work. In order to qualify as a professional person in the various fields, an individual must first become a student. It is of the student that this yearbook is primarily concerned, and in order to properly convey to the readers what the student and his life really means we, the editors, present this section— STUDENT LIFE AT THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA

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GRADUATE SCHOOL OSPITAL ADMINISTRATION X-RAY MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY PHYSICAL THERAPY STUDENT LIFE

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The time is bright and early one morning the first part of September, any year-190(). The student wakes up, probably early this morning — in the neighborhood ot (i:0()-7:()() — rushes to put on his clothes, eat breakfast, and make the necessary ar- rangements to begin his first day at the Medical College of Virginia. Some weeks prior to this the student has received, through the mail, notices of where he is to be at a given time that day. More than likely this will first be registration desk. From here the student goes to one of the auditoriums here at the college or to one of the other meeting places, such as the classroom, and receives lectures from the arious members of the faculty. These lectures usually concern orientation of the student to the particular profession into vhich he is going. Then comes the big moment — from these words of orientation the student is suddenly throAvn into the bedlam of learning all of those foreign terms. He is expected to read textbooks, many of which he may have to look up half to three- quarters of the words on the first page in order to understand what they mean. He may even ha ' e to look up words foimd in the definitions of the word he looked up. Soon however, the first two or three days have passed, and the student begins to get some idea of what professional training is like.