Ohio State University College of Medicine - Caducean Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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The Htypicaln senior is a man of many facets. He was born in Ohio of non-college parents in a moderate- sized city. He attended public school and attended an Ohio college before coming here. His parents' income is in the S5000-3510000 year bracket and he probably borrowed heavily from them to get here. More than likely he isnit a veteran, but more than likely he is married. Held like to see pre-med education broadened to include more liberal arts courses, but on the whole he thinks the majority of pre-med courses will be useful in the practice of medicine. He majored in the biologi- cal sciences, wasn't Phi Beta Kappa, and applied here because it was either near home or because of financial reasons. He's a fraternity member, and in his senior year he studied close to ten hours a week. During that week he took the wife out once but not more, and spent a little over 355 outside living expenses. He read the newspaper and the Saturday Evening Post that week, drank a beer or so, worked on his externship and returned almost nightly to his apartment or fraternity house. He's a non- smoker. He doesn't know about specialties, but be prefers surgery if any. He'll probably settle in ra small town in Ohio, and he fully expects to gross between 325,000- SS50,000 after he's been in practice ten years. He wants no part of National Boards and his biggest gripe about OSU Medical School is that its course content is im- practical. He graduated with a 2.6 -cumulative point- hour and thereis not much doubt that heid do it all over again ifuhe had to. That's the average senior and may the good statisti- cians forgive the necessary generalizations. Now to get down to specific details and answer some specific questions. THE LITTLE DOCS AND HOW THEY CREW All of the Class of 1955 listed their home town as somewhere in Ohio. It comes as a surprise, however, that only eleven of us were born outside the state, one senior listing Singapore, and one Madras, India, as his birthplace. The majority of us were born and raised in 'larger cities fover 100,000 pop.lg thirteen of us ad- mitted that we came from towns under 1000. Most of our parents never smelled the incense of the walls and halls of ivy, but if they did it was a better than 2:1 bet that it was our father-s, and slightly less than 50fk of 'them graduated from college. Percentage-wise, our pre-pre-medical education was given to us in the public high schools in nine out of ten cases, but seven of us attended private high schools and four of us, willingly or not, graduated from military school. Exactly one third of the present seniors listed Ohio State University as their alma mater. Of the thirty-nine colleges mentioned in all, only fifteen of us matricu- lated at colleges outside the state of Ohio. Two of us were Ivy Leaguers, one did some learning in the deep South, but none of us got farther west than the Univer- sity of Arizona. We took many courses in undergraduate days, most of them pre-med, but our majors ranged from pre-law through sociology to psychology, and we were prosaic enough to major in biology or the biological sciences, at least ll-Qfk of us were. Chemistry majors accounted for another 10721. Only ten of us majored in non- science courses. We are in the midst of scholars in the class of 1955, roughly one third of the class belonging to Phi Beta Kappa or some other undergraduate scholastic honorary, Alpha Epsilon Delta and Phi Sigma Alpha also being mentioned. Why did we go into medicine as a profession? 392- thought this was a silly question, but 3096 said they had a desire to help others and another 30fk listed scientific interests as their foremost reason, Fifteen per cent frankly didn't know and another fifteen per cent liked the financial and social security attached to the lVl.D. degree. A few said their father was a doctor and that's why they applied to medical school. Of all the possible medical schools we could have come to we accepted Ohio State for a variety of reasons, the two most frequently mentioned being its proximity to home base and financial reasons. One fifth of us couldn't get in any other place, but a good fifteen per cent believed the reputation of the school was a good and sullicient reason. STATUS QUO When our sons and daughters ask us what we did in the big war, daddy, only a little over one third of us can say we were actively involved. Our religious tendencies are predominantly Protestant, 75W of us answering to that call. Of the other religions about 10fk are Catholics and 156729 hold the Jewish faith. We also number a Christian Scientist and a member of the Eastern Orthodox faith. At least 68 of us are married, and thatis as close to 50'Zp of the class as one can get, non-poll answerers included. A few of us are engaged, but a third or more are still looking. Evidently exhausted by his four ardu- ous years in medical school, one enervated senior weakly scrawled apathetic', across the page. As to when we'd get married, the above one third resorted to the old dodge, when I meet the right girl. Possibly the same the origin of our species N me

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