Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery - Dental Columbian Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Columbia University in the City of New York j New York,N- Y. 10032 USTOSTAGj O? -■0 wa r- f03 E T 83|W: mi SCHOOL OF DENTAL AND ORAL SURGERY OFFICE OF THE DEAN 630 West 168th Street August 6, 1971 Dear Mr. Goodman: At a meeting of the Second-Year Class Faculty Committee held on Wednesday, August 4, 1971 at 11:30 a.m. a grade of Incomplete was submitted for you in Oral Surgery 201 by the chairmen of the Division of Oral Surgery. The incom- plete grade is the result of your failure to take the final examination in Oral Surgery 201 which had been scheduled for Friday, July 30, 1971. It was the unanimous decision of this committee that a special examination in Oral Surgery 201 be scheduled for Tuesday, September 7, 1971 at 9 a.m. in Laboratory Room 9-217. You are hereby requested to appear and to take this special examination because you absented yourself from the regular examination on Friday, July 30, 1971 in Oral Surgery 201. Iii accordance with the provisions of the University statutes as promulgated in the Faculty Handbook, you will be charged a fee of $10 for this special examina- tion. Upon arrival in the examination room at 9 a.m. on September 7, 1971, you will be given the application for this special examination and asked to complete it, and pay the required $10 fee just prior to the start of the special examination. The fee will be paid to the proctor of the examination by either personal check or cash, and a University receipt will be given to you. After lengthy discussion the Second-Year Class Faculty Committee decided unanimously that, failure to take this special examination in Oral Surgery 201 on September 7, 1971 at 9 a. m. will result in your being dropped from the School of Dental and Oral Surgery. This committee, again in a unanimous decision, has recommended that failure in the special examination will result in a student either being dropped or being permitted to repeat the second year, pending a review of the student ' s entire academic record by the committee. May I again remind you that you are to attend and take the special examination in Oral Surgery 201 on September 7, 1971 at 9 a.m. in Laboratory Room 9-217. Very truly yours, Lx-j Melvin L. Moss, D.D.S., Ph.D. Dean

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ERRAT A: July 27, 1971 Drs. Loscalzo, Mandel, Minervini Department of Oral Surgery The Class of 1973 has unanimously deemed the taking of an examination in the summer session of oral surgery lecture series unnecessary and uncomplementary to the educational process. We do not negate the value of much of the material presented in an applied clinical setting, but, apart from this setting, the material presented loses its educational value. To be specific, we find the memorization of a list of local anaesthetics, a list of emergency equip- ment, a list of components of inflammation, a list of anti-inflammatory agents, and multiple lists of concerning the causes, cures, and complications of impactions not only time-consuming, but a minor mental exercise designed for nothing more than the establishment of a grade which cannot reflect the student ' s comprehension of the bases of oral surgery. We are, of course, not denying the discipline of oral surgery its rightful place in the dental school curriculum, but we do request that it know where its rightful place lies. We realize this to be not in the lecture hall but in the operatory where the student must and will learn all material necessary to practice surgery. The forced memorization of this course ' s material prior to this clinical experience has proven valueless. The class therefore has decided not to take the examination for this course or for any course where our educational needs are not served to their fullest. For the Class of 1973 YWui £bW Michael S. Goodman, President

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