Indiana University School of Medicine - Caduceus Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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The Research Center will be located just east of the Medical Science Building and is to house ex- tensive research and animal facilities as well as a modern medical and health related library. Surgi- cal research laboratory construction will soon be completed on the top floor of Emerson Hall. Ad- vanced teaching and service areas including — Surgical and Cardiac Intensive Care Units, Mag- netic Resonance Imager and Linear Accelerator at University; A Bone Marrow Unit and improve- ments in the pediatric opthalmology area at Riley; and Newborn Intensive Care Units at Wishard have been added. During the 1907-1908 school year, the 42 ad- mitted freshman payed 570 dollars for the yearly session; the total enrollment numbered 111. Pre- medical requirements included Rhetoric, Latin, Or- thography, Botany and United States History. After place in both clinical and basic sciences. Medicine and Surgery Departments approved new chair- men — Dr. August Watanabe, M.D. and Dr. Jay Grosefeld, M.D. There has been a seven percent increase in total faculty members available to medical students with the addition of 26 full time faculty members over the past four years. This brings the total faculty including volunteers to nearly 2000. As the 21st Century approaches, one may, as Dr. Emerson did, ... look forward into the future ... and see a vision ; A vision of far-reaching changes within our medical and nonmedical com- munities. Plans are underway for a new Confer- ence Center and a privately developed hotel east of University Hospital. Accordingly, many campus and city-wide construction projects are beginning in preparation for the Pan-American receiving approximately 1000 applications in 1930, Indiana was 17th in the nation with a total enroll- ment of 424 and rose to tenth with 460 in 1940. During the past four years, the first year class has decreased to 275 with a reduction in total enroll- ment of seven percent. From 1,372 applicants, 290 freshmen and four years, 277 new physicians will graduate on May 11.1986. Since the first wom- an. Elizabeth Blackwell, graduated from Geneva Medical School in 1848. females are adding a New Dimension to the field of medicine. Comprising three percent of physicians in Indiana in 1960, women, in contrast, now occupy 37.9 percent of this years graduating class. Along with the acquisition of a new Dean of the Medical School. Walter J. Daly. M.D., following Dr. Steven Beering's move to Purdue University, other teaching and Administrative changes are taking Games in 1987. including canal beautification projects, many condominium and apartment buildings as well as a Fitness and Sports Center. As Dr. Grosfeld comments, There is no medical complex in the country that can match the pa- tient population, hospitals and facilities that we have here at Indiana. What we must do is work together as a Medical Center optimize our re- sources and push to become the leader in the medical community that we have the ability to become. Above.- Dr. Emerson is shown rounding with nurses in Bobb’s clinic. 1920. Above Right: In the first operating room in City Hospital in 1887. Dr.'s Churchill. Moffett and Jobes perform some early orthopedics. Right.- An early pharmicist concocts in Long. 1922. 8