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

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DEDICATIO The dedication of this yearbook to Dr. Francis Bayard Carter is not made on his interest in teaching. Nor on his facility as a surgeon and physician. Nor on his generosity. And not even on his relationship with his patients fwhich dt-:Fines the word rapportj. The dedication is not made on the basis of any one of these, but rather on the combination of them all. It is tribute to a person who has managed to be a doctor, a teacher and a human being and to achieve excellence in each aspect. It is said of Dr. Carter that he once Went to address an alumni group and when he had Finished, no one was sure what it was he taught: history, medicine or philosophy. The demands of medicine are rigorousg to be something more than a competent doctor requires determination. It is good to know that among the practitioners of medicine there are still some who can be called learned men, some Whose vision has a measure of breadth, as well as of depth. Such is the basis of this dedication. eiezfefz

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DR. FRANCIS I3. n'.xRv CIARTER Professsor of Obstetrics and Gynecology lC'l1

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Wliere experimentation is so in vogue the following section should be no novelty, for it is simply an effort to provide a more personal glimpse of medical educators than yearhoolts usually allow. There are no traditional group pic- tures: the art and skill of teaching are, after all, not achieved en nzasxe. Hope- fully, what has been learned here is in large measure associated for each student with several men, whom he has found to emhody those qualities which set aside a teacher. The succeeding pages carry the photographs and essays of a few such men, only a few and not all. In trihute, then, to the role of teachers and teaching is this section meant, and even more: as an expression of concern that respect for the transmission of knowledge and those who teach not he lost in a frantic race for an ephemeral Reputation. twelve