University of Michigan Medical and Nursing School - Aequanimitas Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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The junior year for the class of 1970 is divided into three month rotations in medi- cine, pediatrics, surgery, and an incredible kaleidoscopic mish-mash of happenings known as ushortsw. Each of the rotations has its own character and general mood. Of course this was different for different groups of students, but in a general sort of way this Hmoodw was experienced by all. The medicine rotation, more than any other, gives the NNI-3', the opportunity to learn how a complete history and physical examination, Cincluding rectal, of coursej, can be completed within one hour. This 'one hour, is then followed by a two hour session of writing all the information gained down in the manner prescribed by Those On High, with negatives ad nauseam as well as positive findings, and then a ridiculously complete differential diagnosis from the most probable to the 100-to-1 shot and let us not forget that by the following morning a complete blood count and urinalysis must be performed, with results entered on the Robert Dewirltel' Barry Dewitt E NEIICIIE .

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e f i - . t r l t 2'- -I 3 2'- E'- ' 1 ' in A sua l ff? gy james Gosman proper laboratory sheets. Morning rounds give the student an opportunity to give a five minute concise dissertation on the informa- tion gathered, and then to gather in pearls of wisdom from the faculty rounder on the disease process or physical findings. How- ever, as likely as not this will be a sterile exercise, with the student left little wiser than before by his mentor, No other being but the M3 can stand quietly for four hours enduring morning rounds, watching the professor examine each new patient in silence, and answer questions from the number of glomeruli in the adult male kidney to five triads featuring splenomegaly. And then from morning rounds to early afternoon x-rays, an exercise in which the student with a good knowledge of anatomy and a quick imagination can excell. The M-3 on medicine by necessity becomes an expert in the workings of a hospital. He quickly learns how to arrange appointments for his patients for major laboratory procedures, and learns how to ferret out the results after they are com- pleted. fThese results are reported faithfully at evening Hslip roundsf' with a grunt often being given in return.D The M-3 is the best educated but lowest paid messenger that the hospital has. He also becomes a walking telephone directory, having learned all the telephone numbers of all the labs. 126 I Robert Greenberg Arthur Gulick james Hall N 4,