Temple University School of Dentistry - Odontolog Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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HEALTH SERVICE The University Health Service seeks to promote a high standard of physical and mental health among students. It does not attempt to replace the services of a personal physician or psychiatrist, but to supplement them in relation to academic programs and campus life. A Health Service Office for students in the School of Dentistry is located in the Dental Building. Its staff includes a registered nurse and a Part-time physician. Upon completion of the freshman preclinical courses, students are permitted to perform simple coronary bypass and kidney transplant procedures in the Health Service Surgery Room. As the student improves his skills he will eventually be permitted to scale teeth and perform minimal dental procedures up to and including finished cavity preparation. THE VENDETERIA The vendeteria, with a seating capacity of 350 persons, is located on the fourth floor of the building. Offering a full line of hot and cold drinks, soups, sandwiches, fresh fruits, and pastries, the vendeteria is open five days a week to students, faculty, and patients. i

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PRE-CLINICAL SCIENCE LABS Pre clinical Science laboratories are located along the west side of the third floor. Each laboratory is furnished with the special eqiup-ment; including inadequate lighting, cast iron stools, clogged sinks, unreliable equipment, and overcrowded conditions, necessary for the complete instruction in the field of dentistry. BASIC SCIENCE The basic science departments, with the exception of Anatomy, are located along the south side of the third floor. Each teaching laboratory is furnished with new equipment especially designed to meet the needs of thorough training in each subject involved. In addition, specialized equipment has been installed in each laboratory to afford the student a chance to kill as much of his valuable time as possible. VISUAL EDUCATION The closed and open circuit television facilities of this department, enables an absent instructor to control time, space, perception, size, and perspective in instruction with student conceptual development as the primary objective. Video taped demonstrations, procedures, etc. are available for individual or group student viewing. This includes the Dean’s Hour, taped every Friday afternoon before a live audience with music provided by Billy Binns and his orchestra. This program is broadcast by satellite to 9 departments and 34 countries with a total viewing audience of 78 million. This program is a past winner of the highly coveted Tony Award. 17

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THE ELEVATOR The executive elevator is located at the rear of the building. With a weight capacity of 85,000 pounds it travels directly from the ground floor to the fourth floor at 9.6 feet per second. It enables the staff to travel directly to the newly decorated offices on the fourth floor quickly bypassing the deteriorating conditions on the second and third floors. The student escalators allow the student an opportunity to travel safely and easily from floor to floor. The escalators are well lighted, freshly painted, and cleaned daily by a competent staff member. i PARKING There is a twenty-three car parking lot adjacent to the building where department chairmen, steamfitters, and sheet metal workers can park their cars without fear of vandalism. The lot is guarded by highly trained professionals who use the latest in surveillance techniques. The University provides on street parking anywhere in North Philadelphia, however they assume no responsibility for stolen tires, stolen batteries, or stolen cars, nor do they assume the costs of parking tickets or towing charges. Due to lack of parking facilities patients are forced to find alternate means of transportation. 19