Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences - Stethoscope Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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i HENRY L. ABRAHAM. H - Bayonne. New lersey f 1 DOUGLAS M, AGEE, A. B., Yucaipa, California ARTHUR ARATOW. Hillside. New lersey Q . ,Q 2 K- . 2 - L' 7 as , In Sophomore year in osteopathic school is to most students one of the most challenging periods in their academic lives. Not even the discipline imposed by the rigorous first year studies has prepared them adequately for the inflexible routine of second year. Throughout freshman year they have heard a legend of sophomoric woes, and it is with some trepidation that they approach the regimen of second year. The demands made of the student's intellectual powers and physical stamina are unsurpassed: yet, with all its difficulties, sophomore year is a year of awakening. For the first time he is brought face to face with basic realities of life, death and birth. For the first time he begins to understand the importance of the physician's instruments, the power of the physician's hands. Long hours of anatomy in freshman year taught the student the structure of the human body: now Z8 ALBERT AZARIAN, A. B, Fresno. California IOHN BAUERS, Ranka. Latvia lOHN T. BEAL, B. A.. Somerville, Mass. pathology, the study of the nature of disease and its effects on the body, shows how the structures of the body are altered by illness. The student must learn to describe each disease, its etiology, macroscopic description, microscopic description, prognosis and treatment. He becomes intimately acquainted with the odd-looking specimens in jars and bottles lining the walls of the pathology lab. Slide after slide is examined under the microscope: there are quizzes, lab tests, examinations enough to keep the weary sophomore in a constant state of tension. When confronted with Boyd's one-thousand- twenty-three page Textbook of Pathology in Septem- ber, the sophomore would term the memorizing of this volume an impossibility. Yet so intensive is their learning that the same student will in lune quote passage after passage, footnote after footnote. Very few copies of Boyd ever see service to a succeeding

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KENNETH BEAMAN, B. S., Oak Park, Illinois GEORGE T. BELLA, B. A.. Reseda, California MANUEL BLANDO, B. S,. Kansas City, Missouri r 5, 5 5392 Q 5'f r QF' . . y , Q 3 gi jg T RAYMOND BREEDLOVE, la., B. s., QT Kansas City, Missouri i nf ' .iz'1i'g JAMES A.BYRD,B.S., T, g ' I ' V 4 Houston, Texas i ' . i' ' g 53 2 . 'EAV Q ., Joi-IN 1. CAHILL. A. B,. if A W. Palm Beach, Florida y- i class: their underlined, dog-eared pages would not hold together through a second arduous year of Path. Although the sophomore students are constantly in touch with pathological specimens through their study of disease, some are still unprepared for their first'autopsy. There, stripped oi the objectivity of textbook and slide and the familiar walls of the laboratory, they encounter death in its uncompromis- ing starkness. With emotions carefully ,concealed they take notes and watch quietly as the pathologist shows concretely the cause of death: yet here an indelible impression that will last as long as lite ite self is imprinted on the mind. The second year students are required to attend ten autopsies. The protocol of each of these post- mortems must then be compiled in detail, correlating the findings of the pathologist with their own know- ledge and research. Besides the long hours devoted to pathology, there are many other important courses that demand time and effort. Bacteriology in concerned with the study of pathogenic microscopic organisms, requir- ing long sessions with the microscope: add parisit- ology, preventive medicine, neuropsychiatry and the student is hard pressed to find enough hours in the day for study. The young physician is now in- troduced to the use of drugs though materia medica and pharmacodynamics. History taking is a study of the technique of eliciting information from the patient pertinent to the diagnosis. Many hours are also spent in the physiology lab learning bodily iunction through experimentation with both animals and fellow-students. 29