Drexel University College of Medicine - Medic Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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muh IU i3 .Z Qi and the class was disappointed in being de- prived of Dr. Ricketts' tutelage in the clinical years. Any stranger around Hahnemann can eas- ily locate the tile-walled dissection labs, where the Freshman still spends most of his time, sim- ply by following his nose up the four flights of wobbly steps! For us it was customary to take the verboten elevator in the basement in groups of six or more, the theory being that there was safety in numbers should we be greeted by Mr. Jones when we reached the fourth floor. ln re- cent years the department has undergone ex- tensive change in personnel, but when we were Freshmen, Dr. Thomas Phillips was in charge of Anatomy. His mild and pleasant attitude, his Morning, Men! , and his theory that anatomy must be learned by repetition, repetition, repe- tition are still famous around the school. There was little lecture work in Gross Anat- omy. With the exception of an occasional orientation talk or movie, our time was spent with our silent teachers, the cadavers, two of us working on the lowers and two on the uppers. The work was either a pleasant occu- pation or a tedious chore, depending on the practical exams devised by the various labora- tory instructors. These practicals were often designed to have a morale-shattering effect, and each laboratory instructor apparently had his own psychological pattern for breaking down the student. Dr. Montague would floor the examinee by rolling a set of wrist bones on N fl ...f I I r LOOK - N0 HANDS! i Q N 1 . miiiss sssc, ,.,. I2 .gf- Q fx S '71 Q' 'T 1 , a table top with the command, Pick 'em up and name 'em! Dr. Stern would try every re- mote question in Phillips' Notes, ultimately stumping even the bright boys with What's the pH of the vagina? Dr. Angulo made strong men quake with, Thees is the sural nerve?! Then what is thees? And Dr. Warren popped up with simple, straight-forward questions like, What passes medially and inferiorly to the superiolateral aspect of Chassaignac's tubercle, and why is this important? And those who had Dr. Chunn's oral will remember his Pick a card -any card at all! Dr. Chunn was also famous for his 150-question nuggets for a five-question exam. And so it went. We toiled over the cadav- ers, We teased out nerves. We traced muscles from origin to insertion. We looked for anom- alies and then ran to have Dr. Warren photo- graph them. We sought lymphatics-alas! in vain. We drew sketches on the blackboards. We memorized everything. We used Gray's Anatomy, then Morris, then Grant, then Cun- ningham, then the Catechisms, then Dr. Phillips' Notes-each time looking for a better and eas- ier-to-understand anatomy textbook. Thus we learned our anatomy by repetition. And when the course was over, detailed anatomy was quickly forgotten. The big things, how- ever, such as salasap, the lingual nerve took a swerve, and the famous mnemonic about Sally for the branches of the external carotid artery will remain with us permanently. N-x

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1 , 2' n.,,,..-ff -s.f x 4, W 5 -4- A . f as ,I f-. ,W l my ty .W t , .s i'iiisi-it-iw ii 1'llXl4lI'HIlIlNIl1t M. John Boyd, Ph.D. Professor and Head of the Division of Biological Chemistry Joseph Chandler, Ph.D. Professor of Biological Chemistry Joseph S. Hepburn, Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry Joseph S. DeFrates, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry Carl Alper, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry William R. Brown, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry George A. Nitshe, Jr., M.D. Associate in Biological Chemistry Joseph N. Seitchik, M.D. Associate in Biological Chemistry Armand J. Courchoine, B.S. Instructor in Biological Chemistry Phyllis Yount Wood, M.S. Research Assistant in Biological Chemistry The Class of 'l95O should be very well versed in Chemistry, since it was taught in a highly unique manner. The words of Dr. Phillips, our esteemed Anatomy professor, Repetition, repe- tition, repetition! would perhaps apply some- what more appropriately to Chemistry. First of all, we took the regular Chemistry course. Secondly, we took Dr. Schmidt's course on our own time and expense in order to pass the first course. Thirdly, we bought copies ot Kleiner a year later in preparation for the National Board examinations. +-..,,. gs ,fl sr i . 1 if ff .lags .N Uam Y Smit X Xl' 45 ,.. J