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

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uw n Qjjflliliflg il Q1 en affiliated hospitals, located throughout the borough of Brooklyn and near-by Long Island, have provided a rich and rewarding variety of clinical experience for Third and Fourth Year students at Downstate. At these institutions, the student was given the opportunity of observing and participating ir1 the practice of medicine as it is carried out in large voluntary, municipal, state, and federal hospitals. Our associations with these outlying hospitals have provided us with a broad cross-section of patient populations and clinical entities from which to leam, on a scale not possible at any single institution. Many of tl1e staff of these hospitals serve on the Faculty at Downstate, and, along with other attendings and house staff, have been enthusiastic and ambitious in iilling their preceptorial assign- ments. Experience gained at these hospitals will serve to mould us into better physicians in the future. The LONG ISLAND COLLEGE HOSPITAL, circa 1860: origin of Downstate. The LONG ISLAND COLLEGE HOSPITAL is the original medical school hospital in Brook- lyn. A voluntary general hospital with 567 beds, it is utilized for regular and elective instruction in the major clinical subjects. We extend a special thanks to the staff here, for each hard-working member did his best to provide us with the learning we sought. Every day was a new experi- ence, and we gained by doing as well as by seeing. We will remember these men, not only as excellent physicians, but also as outstanding teachers.

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HOWARD DORFMAN, Assistant Vice-President for Personnel Affairs, has been here for nine years. Currently his job includes overseeing, organizing, and setting policies pertinent to the operation of personnel throughout the entire Medi- cal Center. He acts for the President of Personnel in areas of faculty personnel policy and with the Board of Trustees. In addition, his responsibilities include administration of the Records Office and the Office of Machine Services. He is married and the father of two. HELEN KOVACS, Director of Li- braries, was bom in Hungary, and studied in four foreign countries and in the United States. At Downstate since 1957, she be- came Head Librarian in 1961. Fluent in many lan ages, she is much in demand as an autildr and lecturer both here and abroad. She has worked endlessly toward the creation of the newly merged library fofticially-the Medical Research Library of Brooklynl, now third largest in the United States. This library, now com- puterized, will be the first of its kind in which a computer may be queried using general medical terms. Though over- whelmingly busy, she is a wife and mother, and enjoys painting and garden- ing. ROBERT L. RENCK, Assistant Vice- President for Facilities and Planning, has been at Downstate since 1949. A mech- anical engineer, his major areas of re- sponsibility include heating, air con- ditioning, maintenance, safety, security, and, most important, co ordination of the entire building program. To date, suc- cesses include completion of the Univer- sity Hospital, Residence Halls, and the Parking Garage. Currently underway is the new Recreation Facilities Building, to provide for all student activities, includ- ing: swimming, gym, music, organiza- tions, snack bar, and even a nursery play- ground. Groundbreaking for a College of Behavioral Sciences .and Biomedical Medicine is his next goal. ti W-ei f f ff . gf 5 il SWK!

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2 'vii r., I Brooklyn Hospital The BROOKLYN-CUMBERLAND MEDI- CAL CENTER, consists of two general hospitals, the BROOKLYN HOSPITAL, a voluntary hospi- tal with 375 beds, and the CUMBERLAND HOSPITAL, a municipally owned institution of 426 beds. Now undergoing a considerable amount of growth and reconstruction, the Center has full- time chiefs in all major departments, plus a number of full-time assistants, all with faculty rank. Many of us spent long, but instructive, hours of training here during clerkships in medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, and surgery. First to memory are the Chiefs, who, with pa- tience, guidance, and often frightening grand Cumberland Hospital rounds, helped to mould those who served here into confident, mature physicians. It doesn't take much to recall What afamous man once said, For one to be in health and wise, He must early go to bed! But alas, the Chiefsfor whom we toiled This proverb had not heard . . . For when our minds were slow and dull And vision slightly blurred . . . A VOICE would comefrom nowhere, And through the place resound, GET UP! LOOK SMART! and BE ALERT! It's time to start GRAND ROUNDS! Model ofthe new Brooklyn-Cumberland Medical Center as planned. The JEWISH HOSPITAL OF BROOKLYN, a voluntary hospital of 623 beds, provides regular and elective instruction in medicine, surgery, ped- iatrics, pathology, obstetrics and gynecology, radiology, and anesthesiology. An especially popular choice among Third Years students on Medical clerkships, the teaching programs are excellent and the weeks spent here most pleasant.