Temple University School of Medicine - Skull Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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yeor lay the foundation upon which the lifelong study of medicine is built. There are many hours of didactic work covered in the classroom and many more spent in the laboratory. These would undoubtedly be long, wearisome hours if it were not for the unfor-getable personalities and the spirit they create making this first year at Temple a memorable one. We. therefore, begin the story of the four classes at Temple Medical School by recording in words and pictures the personalities and actions of the first year. noiu acaiurin

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On September 17, 1941, another freshman class, the supposed CIcss of 1946, began their careers as freshmen medical students. For a majority it would be a vision come true. For some, however, it would develop into a confused scheme of complexity too great to cope with. For, as Dr. Harvey Cushing once said, the study of medicine requires a good head, a good heart, skillful hands, one who is possessed of a spirit o' service, and one who is not afraid to work. The courses covered during the freshman modern median

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FIRST SEMESTER. IS HISTOLOGY AND EMBRYOLOGY Histology and embryology makes up one of the major studies of the first semester. Under the guidance of Professor Pritchard and Dr. Chase, the student finds himself in a highly organized department and is soon correlating the development of the human body with its final microscopic structure. In addition to the lectures, many hours each week are spent in the laboratory preparing slides, studying the slides under the microscope, making countless drawings, studying the embryos of man and the lower animals, and sitting in the projection room being quizzed by Pritch. ANATOMY Anatomy, under the guidance of keen, quick witted Professor Roxby, demands a greater part of the effort of the first year medical student. In the first semester many conferences are held by Professor Roxby and Dr. Huber. Here, a comprehensive and systematic study of the human body is correlated with the work in the dissection room. The hours spent in the anatomical laboratory are considered the golden hours of anatomy and the constant attendance of the staff greatly facilitates and encourages this work. TOPOGRAPHIC AND VISCERAL ANATOMY Topographic and visceral anatomy is the study of surface anatomy and of the relationship of structures in transverse and sagittal sections. The principal part of the laboratory work consists in drawing life size pictures of cross sections of the human body. In addition the surface anatomy is mapped on fellow students. Dr William C. Pritchard, in the first feme iter loyS the foundation in histology. vi»-coral anatomy, ond embry ology. Room 510. lomous for long hours of mitfoscoping and drawing. Dr. Pntchord gives onother pointer to the freshmen. Dr Chase drops a helpful hint obovt those endless embryology drawings.