Duke University School of Medicine - Aesculapian Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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A ■ E. Marker, Ph.D. Chairman J Traditionally the entering medical student ' s first in- troduction to medicine is through the study of anatomy. Here he learns facts and principles which he will use throughout his association with medicine. As befits such an important subject, anatomy in its various ram- ifications occupies more than half of the first year stu- dent ' s time. The student works in the laboratory doing gross dissections and studying the microscopic structure of tissues for much of the first three months. Audio- visual aids are used to supplement this work. Among such aids are colored motion pictures demonstrating dissections, closed-circuit television, colored lantern slides, and embrylogic and neurologic motion pictures. Many of these audiovisual aids are produced h ere by the Department and are used in many medical schools other than Duke. With the cooperation of the Depart- ment of Radiology, the student has an opportunity to Department of A7 [ATOMT ' The convolutions of Convolvulus The structure of the . . . pelvis maybe compared with that oj a box. fourteen

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. J [oseph E. Mark.ee, Ph.D. Assistant Dean in Charge of Admissions of balance although the advantages of flexible emphasis from year to year among these programs is obvious to all concerned. I would repeat what was stated last year with greater vigor, that medicine is so well de- signed and now so much part of the modern world, that the studious and well motivated physician can be William M. Nicholson, M.D. Assistant Dean in Charge of Post Graduate Education guaranteed a rewarding life experience in any aspect of clinical or laboratory medicine and in any environ- ment of his choice. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air. Again I say, good luck to you all. —Barnes Woodhall, M.D. William P. J. Peete, M.D. Assistant to the Dean Richard A. Bindewald, A.B. Assistant to the Dean ihn teen

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study parts oi the living body as revealed by the X-ray and fluroscope as well as to begin to understand the advantages and limitations of this equipment. Later in the year, the anatomy of the nervous system is pre- sented with the use of brain dissections and slides. Here the clinical application of neurology is stressed. In all of the instruction, teaching is designed to be as informal and as individual as possible. For the more advanced student and lor review, the Department oi Anatomy offers elective courses. Among these are re- views of general, surgical and orthopaedic anatomy, brain modeling, experimental anatomy, special neuro- anatomy, and a special interdisciplinary seminar in the physiological and anatomical bases of behavior. First row, kit to right: Everett, Hetherington, Markee ( hairn McFalls, Gabor, Peele, Moses, Lacy. Not pictured: Becker, Goree. Duke. Second w: Venetta, Dabbert, Agnelo, fifteen