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

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WTO Be more like a review of anatomy but obstetrics lectures and a week of observation have made you feel like an expert. You only wish that you had taken psychological testing before you took the tests. You are glad to learn Osteopathic technique at last, but at first, your class- mates seemed to be more in need of adjustment after you finished practicing on them than to begin with. As the end of the second year nears, you fill with a mixture of panic and excitement. You will spend 5 weeks this summer under the supervision of clinical instructors. BUT, what do you say to a patient? lust how much stethescope tubing should protrude from your clinic jacket? How do you explain what Student Doctor or Extern means so it sounds like you know something? As your first O.B. patient advances, you may begin to hope she will be a month late, to give you a chance to read the book for the llth or 12th time. Then she calls you at 3 A.M. You rush to the hospital and before you know, you have delivered your first child. It all seemed unreal. Like your first kiss: after it's over, you don't remember much, but you do know you want to do it again. The beginning of the third year arrives. Afternoons in the clinic follow lectures all morning. You wonder in endocrinology, haematology, neurology, respiratory disease, and infectious disease, whether or not they now expect you to be treating white rats and why you hadn't studied this disease before that patient came in last week. As you study eye, ear, nose and throat, radiology, orthopedics and surgery, you wish for more time to read all the things you are excited to know. In psychotherapy you realize that there is hope for you after all. And in diet and nutrition you ponder just what the fibre content of English Walnuts has to do with the practice of Medicine. Ever growing is your anticipation of the 4th year with its rotating services in the hospitals and clinics. As you start on Medicine, you're suddenly aware that your dream is about to come true. You really will be a Doctor. You actually can apply some of your knowl- edge to human beings. The first day in surgery, you decide you may have to be carried out again, but you survive and even begin to cut sutures correctly. Perhaps you may even get to do a tonsillectomy or help with an appendect- omy. On clinic, you rotate through the different depart- ments. One day you want to be an EENT specialist, the next week a Gynecologist. But after 13 you are again content to be a G.P. Of course many of your classmates will be going on to residencies after their internships. As you leave for your 4 weeks at one of the state mental hospitals, you are sure that either they will keep you, or that you will be done away with by some violent patient. Next comes QB. service. Even after delivering 3 or 4 of your own patients in your junior year, your A Doctor The Surgical Suite heart still flutters each time you witness the miracle of the creation of life. You wonder if the mother could possibly be as thrilled at the sound of crying as you are while giving the helping slap to the little infant. Then the banquets begin. The organizations you had managed to find time for all gather to wish the future doctor well. Then graduation night arrives. Walking up to get your diploma, it may be a little hard to see, as you feel the firm handshake and hear, Congratulations, Doctor! A Achievement

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6650 You Want-- OU want to contribute to humanity, relieve suffer- ing, and give comfort to the distressed. But perhaps there was no training for the family doctor nearby. So you decided to go a little further from home to a school in Kansas City you had heard about to get the orienta- tion toward the patient, not the disease. You expected hard work, midnight oil, but as the first day approaches, your excitement rises. You buy all of your books, .microscope, dissecting equipment, colored pencils and rubber gloves. You're determined to read ahead in all your books. Ten minutes later you are convinced you'll never make it past the first week. You put on your lab coat and pose before the mirror. Well, maybe you will. In gross anatomy, as writ-ers cramp sets in, you again begin to wonder. Then in the dissecting theatre, the sheet is thrown back. You feel your knees going. You can picture yourself being carried out. The guy beside you doesn't look well either-you feel better. The bell rings-lunch time. You slip off your gloves and wash your hands 8 times. Some relief descends during physiology lecture as you realize that the material will fit in with the anatomy of this morning. Histology seems so tedious, you feel you'd rather be back in public health. Bio-che.mistry is just more of the chemistry that you promised yourself you were through with after organic. Osteopathic principles are interesting, but you want technique rather than theory. Suddenly, 12 weeks have passed and you are ll weeks behind. You silently bless the administrations policy of no letter grades. Beginning the third quarter, you concede that you might make it. Some of the courses are even like you had imagined medical school to be. Physical diagnosis makes you feel ready for private practice, but your neighbors still haven't sufficient confidence. Between psychology and Cancer detec- tion, you diagnose that you have one week to live. It sometimes seems in embryology and physiology that they expect you to have a practice of frogs, rabbits and guinea pigs. All summer you dread the beginning of classes and entering into the legendary horror of pathology. When you get into the 7 weeks of living, breathing and sleeping pathology, you realize that it is as hard as you had heard. Years later you will be able to quote the text verbatim. At times, bacteriology seems more like a history class and you walk around with more stain on you than any slide ever saw. You are now sure you have caught the disease you were culturing this morning. In physical medicine the machines seem easy, but you hope you won't electrocute your first patient. Parasitology and tropical medicine make you begin to order your meat well done. Gynecology seems First-The Didactic Subjects A Complete Examination ls Indicated. Appreciation A Study In Lights

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r. f' f- 1111, Q1 , STEOPATHY is one of the newest members of the medical family: the only American-born branch of medicine. Its growth, particularly in the past ten years, has been phenominal. Because it is a compara- tive newcomer, being founded in 1892, many persons today are not yet acquainted with the practice of osteo- paths. Contrary to popular opinion, osteopathic physi- cians and surgeons are not bone specialists, as the derivation of the word might suggest. In 1892, Andrew Taylor Still, M.D. decided that the treatment procedures of his day were inadequate and by vigorous efforts, established the American Osteopathic College at Kirks- ville, Missouri, and introduced his principles which are still applicable today: l. The body contains the capacity to heal itself 2. Structure and function are parallel 3. Proper circulation must be present for efficient function of body parts. The manipulative procedures utilized by osteopathic physicians are designed to fulfill the concepts listed above, as an adjunct to drugs, surgery, or other indi- cated treatment of the various diseases. Osteopathic and allopathic tM.D.l educational pro- grams both operate four-year programs, which must be preceded by four years of undergraduate work and a B.S. or BA. degree, with exceptional students allowed to matriculate after three years of college. The following courses must be included in the pre- med curriculum: inorganic chemistry, organic chemis- In the last two years toward clinical material: acute infectious diseases disaster medicine hematology obstetrics differential diagnosis surgery ophthalmology otorhinolaryngology proctology radiology endocrine and metabolic diseases clinical allergies pediatrics clinical practice the courses are directed psychiatry diet and nutrition peripheral-vascular diseases body mechanics anesthesiology urology gastro-intestinal diseases respiratory diseases neurology psychotherapeutics dermatology gerontology medical jurisprudence orthopedics public health The senior year is spent gaining practical experi- ence in hospital duty including medical, surgical, pediatric, obstetrical, psychiatric and out-patient clinic duty, directed toward family care. The curricula of the two schools of medicine are identical, except that osteopathic students spend about 100 extra hours per year in dealing specifically with osteopathy and its techniques. To fulfill graduation requirements the osteo- pathic student must spend 6224 hours in class averag- inq 479 hours per quarter. Both osteopathic physicians 5 . W Oiiirmfflir-l' l i?'l'T'il Wifi Wills: rlhiilnllli-W -lb' H N3 : wlh'7t?:l:J'l'i-N Lqgiffi J1infl2j'1:+i 1,14 11117-iz: Flip ':'Q'.s:'g2: '.-1?-lj:-Ing :iff V 23111: mi -1.-,lf'l1I13 241, 2 l 5'1,1J'l'l Yulit il -ml i 1g- ,:ll:l1,:f'5-' 17- :'V1 -gr IJWV' T ',.lt.n!: K 1' i'-'l ,r -'ip' l l A l lily-lfw'12: fn- .1 .HA ,519 1 -1 -Vfllfllfl -JH t ,'g3 f':Y:l111i3ojV: -2:11:17 1. 1 '1.w1 - 1 1 cut.. 1 ..1 , , l i 1 . ...Wiki 1 1 :A vi' W 4 ,pg g,,.1y 1 ,rf silt: Ha: L ,UINZU :-,W ty My X, K 1 J zu vi-3':i'g:.,1Y:t-fi 1 i L 1E1 X LM J . , U. 1 ,QV , X w-Wlvel -'yt-1:19. 1 l 'f'f1'1 'li',lt'A l l 'i.'5 11f1f' I l l ,. vi 1' 11' I , .1-ei'-1 . 2.1.,.1i ' l --'11-it--tif 1 I '-1-1 .UQ-,llilz 1: 3 .nllm-Et 1 I-.z-111:11 -1- 1 W 1 1 . . S I'-'11 1 l r -tf, nm L ,tex-.mu-. xr:-,fit-,Q-.QJ11-:fy -W Y ' 4 1 '311f' l N D-,g,1.tf.gl1x-H1 3' 1'-' ...if 1 t l 5 mit 1 ., .1 , Osteopathic colleges also offer introductory courses to: obstetrics physical medicine gynecology osteopathic fundamentals and techniques oncology