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

Page 18 text:

-an infiuence to be reckoned with- senior as above, and there was only one such, said Hneverf' Bets, anyone? Depending on our status we take the girl friend or wife out between one and three times a month. About 101k of the class goes out less than once per month, and the playboys who go out almost daily numbered fewer than five per cent. WHO'S GOT THE DINC-DONC? The shrewd observation that mo-st physicians are close-mouthed about finances was confirmed in the results of this poll. Although the questionnaires were to be returned anonymously more seniors omitted answer- ing this question than any other one in the entire gamut of forty-five. The question about family income was so constructed that married and single seniors could answer it without making separate questions. Unfor- tunately, the question was misinterpreted by many and we have seniors listing their parents' income and not their own as head of a family. At any rate the median single senior's family income was within the 355000- 310,000 bracket. It is interesting to note that while no -single senior listed his parents' income as over 320,000, five married seniors checked their family income as above that figure. The weary editor, his bemused brain awash in all the statistics, leaves the interpretation to the reader. The median married seniors, income as -head of a family was within 252500-355000. If the wish is father to the deed, Weill beat Dad all hollow as it concerns breadwinning. 901k of us expect to gross between 25 and 50 thousand dollars after ten Twelve years of practice, one fsicj optimistic soul said he thought he'd gross upwards of 50 thousand. Six of us had no idea what weid be worth. WHO TOOK THE FUNNIES? This was one of those opinion questions and twenty- six different comic strips were mentioned as preferred. POCO, king of the Okefinokee, swamped everybody with a plurality of two votes, but Steve Canyon and L'il Abner were not far behind. One disapproving critic stated he hadnit uhad time to become a fanf' All things considered, we don't read much outside our courses. Three fourths of us had sullicient extra- curricular time to read at least one medical journal not required, Time, Life, or the SATEVEPOST, and the daily newspaper. About one third of us read a few novels a year, but whether or not these were on the Mickey Spillane-Frank Yerby-A. E. Van Vogt axis isn't known. 25W of us read 2-3 books of non-fiction a year, content unknown. POSITION OPEN: ROOM, BOARD, AND CLINICAL EXPERIENCE Wie needed financial assistance to get through medical school and we needed it bad. We used multiple sources, mostly our families and our savings from outside jobs, summer work, and externships. 10fk of the wives get a Ph. T. after their names for Putting Husband Through. Loans accounted for another 1017 and a few used the GI Bill. '6Bank robberyn was not accepted as a legiti- mate answer. 86fk of us by the slide rule have had at one time or another an externship in our medical school careers. One third of us lived in apartments most of the time outside the classroom and another 25? in one fraternity house or another. Another 2595 lived either in rooming houses or in private homes, their own or somebody else's. The remainder lived with parents or relatives. WHITHER THOU GOEST 86 seniors will spend their internship year with the state of Ohio, but we'll go as far east as Greenwich, Connecticut, as far north as Madison, Vifisconsin, as far west as San Francisco, California, and as far south as the Canal Zone. Ultimately we intend to practice largely in Ohio, but as far as specialization goes we differ widely and al- most equally. A third of us want to specialize, a third donit want to, and a third don't know. When pressed to indicate our choice of specialties, we prefer surgery 28 times out of a hundred. 17W of us like internal medicine, 136k ob-gyn, 927 anesthesia, and 6Wp pediatrics. Radiology and psychiatry were mentioned once or twice, but even so, almost one fourth still didn't know what they liked. The general practi- tioner received Gfyb of the votes. BULL SESSION When we relax from the trials of giving daily hema- tomas and talk about the people, the places, and the

Page 17 text:

Q9 1,6 X I O O Wh ere are You inkefnimn Ohio ,nnl I 65,1o!O C Yi ' 3 X fm ---- - .... gmc 0 3 K 7 Michigan ,,.. Xilqcfc 1 - .-Xouda ........., H X-5,70 ,oo 1 Baskets U. 5. .... ..... 'I ,Lyojo NYM-week ........ . 6fl0f0 Outdxde U. 5. ...... 55970 mba: 0,4 YK' Ne 'iw 3 we we: YW 32,1240 sc.'0oXa'XXG Mono H a ow 4 N60 pe 0:3e we ..... In JVCV leffo el' e,,7y C 1 p ' Wrff , 63? 0 91- e ry 'A ..... 2,3 montll W XG ber ll? X M H101 0 6 Q Ol-6 th Ith .h J a '-1 1 Alma n 'Vee - 3 Sl da lqy 8Z ily ' 1 Qz i if E gggg apptfgw . ws You a+e, 'Fv:,, How much Mme do -aff: I Spend y ho 9 exp qou normak spend fi Less Wk? W mucznsesl skurxmq per week, no! S5 than 35 do ' l counkknq Xeckures and ' -310 GYNCXGS, as a se1fxor'l 310 32 . , C' Less Khao 5 his. ..,. ..,...... X 'lofp 3 S25 A7 5-X0 YX15. ....,. Mwfo NIO!-C th 126k El xo-as ms. ..,, ISEJCXO S50 IZ as-mo ms. ......,.,.,,,,,,, , 'wo on 14' I Mote than A0 hrs. .... Ofjf mf: --A , Nd X Jw Q XQ XX s X cg? or 11.65 X A xxx. Q51 -'J X

Page 19 text:

events of medical school living, we may toss down a trochenlager or so, but just how much do we really drink? Nobody committed himself to a D.T. ward in the future by saying he drank excessively, but 25? said they drank moderately. Four out of ten said they drank occas-ion- ally and another quarter said they rarely tippled. QW upheld the constitution of the W.C.T.U. Of the almost atmospheric number of teachers to whom we've been exposed we remember more than a few as having influenced us most. Here comes that pioneer spirit again: a fourth of the pollees didnlt think anybody had influenced their thinking, but of those who did 'think so, Dr. Robert M. Zoll-inger was most men- tioned. The good Drs. Jacoby, Schlumberger four Man of the Yearj, Holzaepfel, and Saslaw also commanded a respectable number of votes. 4-3fXp of the senior class agreed that pathology was the most important course in medical school. About 10W named physiology and another 10W listed physical diagnosis. Anatomy and medicine, the latter presumably in the clinical years, each received 5fZy of the total. There's not much doubt that we'd go through medical school all over again, even if we knew what we'd be facing. 88W of us shouted, f'Excelsior!7, and said we'd do it again. Three seniors refused to commit themselves. A bare two thirds of the class thought that the ma- jority of pre-med education was useful in our education as physicians. Did we have some specific recommenda- tions? Yes, and most of these concerned the addition of l-iberal arts courses to the curriculum. 4695 wanted to keep pre-med the same length but retain mostly liberal arts courses, while another 21929 wanted to shorten the course and retain mostly liberal arts courses. The write-in suggestion-s favored the addition of pre- clinical courses such as histology and physiology to the undergraduate schedule. National Boards were given a black eye by the Class of 1955. Two thirds of us thought they were not worth- while at all, but 18? thought only Part I should be required. About one senior in seven believed that we should take Parts 1 and II. Grades, their care and feeding, received much dis- cussion. 6027 firmly believed that a grade of usatisfac- tory or 'cunsatisfactoryv only should be given. About 30W liked the present system and less than 5727 wanted to abolish grading entirely. Roughly 60fZp of the class thought that the grades in the -pre-clinical years should be based on a final and two or three hour exams. Another 2075 wanted hour exams alone, and 100k each voted for the instructors, personal opin-ion of him and for a final alone. When we got to the clinical years our opinions changed radi- cally: at least a third of us wanted examinations that were oral entirely or in part. Another quarter liked the professors' personal opinion of him, and still an- other fourth wanted a final alone, probably written. Answers here ranged from uno exams in senior yearn to clinical ability onlyf' Our biggest gripes about the OSU Medical School were about equally split between complaints against inferior teaching in the pre-clinical years, oversized classes, and impractical course content, the latter re- ceiving a slight edge. Write-in answers were manifold: poor organization throughout-'fthe head doesn't know what the tail is doinggw the inevitable moans about the hierarchy system and the scut work, poor organization and teaching in Clinical Medicine and Uletting incom- petent students linishf' Are the classes too large? Do we lose sight of the other students by the artificial subdivision of the class into -sections and off-quarters? It appears that our median senior knew about thirty-five other seniors in more than a first-name fashion, nobody was gregarious enough to say he knew more than a hundred of the one hundred thirty-five very well, but 175k thought they knew 50-100 other seniors very well. As far as grades go we ended our senior year in healthy academic fashion. Of the ninety-six seniors who knew their point hour the median man had a cumu- lative of 2.6. The continuum ran from a low of 2.0 to a high of 3.7. THINGS TO COME Watch out for the Ides of March, 1976, for that's the median estimate of this senior class of the time of ap- pearance of the definitive cure for cancer. 10'Z7 of the class remained skeptical and thought there never would be a cure, but 3202 thought the answer would arrive within fifty years and 41012 thought it possible within twenty-five years. As to the cause of most malignancies, we were very cagey. Two thirds of us believed it to -be different de- pending on the cancer type and location. Of those who got out on a limb, 16729 believed irritants in some form were the basic malefactors, and the rest of the answers were evenly split between nutritional causes, metabolic factors, endocrine imbalances, virus or infectious causes, and heredity. Answers other than the listed ones on the questionnaire included one vote for upcychosomaticf' and one for 'ga characteristic integral with the original germ plasm of the patient. Wve rest our case. We've had a good time outlining the 'atypical -senior and filling in some of the grays. VVe accept no responsibility for false conclusions. De gusti- bus non est dispwiandzun said the lady as she kissed the cow. digestion time: four years Thirteen