SUNY Downstate Medical Center - Iatros Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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1 ' puters and technicians allows the doctor more freedom to give the patient personal attention: spreading the load, but resulting in better total care. The President, while not expecting us to be complete physicians at graduation, does expect a firm desire to continue leaming in the future, and feels research on the part of the student serves to establish good habits often carried on into practice. The Downstate Medical Center is extremely fortunate to have a President with the ability, vision, leadership, and forcefulness of Dr. Hill. We wish him every success as he meets the challenges of the future.

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On September 1, 1966, JOSEPH K. HILL assumed office as Downstate's new President and Dean. A product of Dartmouth and Yale, and serving here in several capacities since 1956, he has filled teaching and administrative positions at Upstate, Yale, and Southem Connecticut. In ten years, he has been responsible for the operation of all administrative departments within the Med- ical Center, expanding these in number and scope to accommodate its growth. Accomplishments include creating an independent Persormel Office, separating the offices of Admissions and Student Affairs, and establishment of the Computing Center, thereafter developing and expanding its use in research and administration. He originated and developed the THOMIS CTotal Hospital and Medical Information Systemj, linking all services and patient care in the new University Hospital. The son of the late Clyde M. Hill, Sterling Professor of Education at Yale, Dr. Hill's back- ground and training provide him with distinct advantages in accomplishing his mission here: developing a total university bio-medical center. With expansion to 2000 students and 3700 faculty and employees a future goal, present plans project a College of Nursing, a College of Health-Related Professions, and, most important, a Graduate School. The possibility of an integrated program combining the last two years of college and the first two of medical school, is to be studied in the future. Though the College of Medicine has reached maximum working size fwith no future expansion plannedj, it will remain dominant, the sharing of the campus providing the medical student with valuable additional stimulation. The great responsibility assumed by a physician within a community, together with the accom- panying respect given him, is an area of large concern to Dr. Hill. He feels ,the physician is often thrust into positions of leadership, whether de- sired or not, and should, therefore, be well in- formed and broadly educated. Accordingly, fol- lowing classes will see the introduction of mind- stretching experiences, including exposure to visiting scholars from other fields, in addition to those of medicine and health. Visits will be both formal and informal, many guests living on cam- pus for a time. As the new recreation facilities are completed, cultural programs including perform- ing arts will be added. Viewing the future of his specialty, Dr. Hill dismisses fears of impersonal or push-button,' medicine, explaining the increased use of com-

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STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER 450 CLARKSON AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 11203 AREA CODE 212 270-1000 Office of the President I have followed with great interest the progress of the graduating Class of 1967 as medical students, and so it is with much pleasure that I congratulate you on the attainment of the degree of Doctor of Medicine. To be a good doctor in an age of electronics, as science fiction becomes a reality, as the individual daily becomes more and more a cipher, it is particularly important to maintain the human touch, not to lose sight of the patient as a fellow creature in pain. Never more than today does the pro- fession of medicine call for a deep understanding of human problems. To be a good doctor in an age of great medical research and advance, of revolutionary changes in the practice of medicine, the physician must remain a student all of his professional life. He must keep informed about new developments in his field, and remain flexible to meet new changes and challenges. It is my hope and my belief that the basic education you have received at the Downstate Medical Center will serve you well in the future, that you have acquired here a solid foundation in medical science, an abiding interest in new discoveries and developments, and insight and sympathy toward human troubles. My very best wishes go with you. COLLEGE OF MEDICINE I SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES 0 UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL 0 COLLEGE OF NURSING 0 COLLEGE OF HEALTH RELATED PROFESSIOF