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

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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

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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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■ T The increasing importance of biochemistry in the training oi the medical student may be attributed to the tremendous progress being made in biochemical re- search. Medicine is looking more and more to bio- chemistry lor the understanding of disease processes, for new diagnostic methods and for a more rational ap- proach to therapy. The biochemistry course in the freshman year introduces the student to the chemistry of the human body. The first phase of the course is devoted to a survey of the chemistry of the materials fundamental to all life: proteins, fats, and carbohydrates, and to the nature of enzymatic action. This is followed by study of those events in intermediary metabolism common to the life of all mammalian cells. The special metabolism of muscle, kidney, bone, erythrocytes, liver, connective tissue, and the chemical aspects of digestion, respiration, electrolyte, acid-base and fluid balance are presented with relation to the study of the physiology of these organs, so as to correlate the two disciplines. Philip Handler, Ph.D. Chairman Department of BIOCHEMISTRY Now which way does the stoc (co turn? ' Shafo, Rattle, and Roll sixteen