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

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Activities t. y ..HE Kansas City College of Osteopathy and Surgery 1 :not only offers the medical student an academic program but also a wide variety of extra curricular activities which helps to prepare him for future leader- ship within his community. A student may choose from any one of four social fraternities to join, Phi Sigma Gamma, Iota Tau Sigma. Lambda Omiaron Gamma or the Atlas Club which are all well supported by their respective alumni practic- ing in the greater Kansas City area. Following comple- tion of the Sophomore year, a student may be asked to join Rho Sigma Chi, Phi Sigma Alpha, or Sigma Sigma Phi which are national honorary societies. For the women of the college there is the Delta Omega sorority. The student body is govemed by the college's student council, which is composed of four members from each class and whose function is to deal with student problems and activities. Religion being an integral part of everyone's life has to offer the New- man club, Luke club, and the Seventh Day Adventist club. Alpha Phi Omega is the college's service fratern- ity which has provided the student with a television and recreation lounge during his leisure time. The society oi Neuropsychiatry, American College of General Practitioners, and the American Osteo- pathic Student Association are other organizations which the student may participate in. The Osteopathic Student Wives club is active throughout the school year. The greater Kansas City area also has much to offer each student. There are tour public golf courses, numerous lakes and swimming areas, an amusement park and zoo for the children. For summer enjoyment Kansas City has one of the largest summer playhouses in the United States in the Starlight Theater. In all, a student has a wide variety of activities to choose from to supplement his academic years here as a student.

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Research Program WO hundred thousand dollars approximates the total grant monies channeled to the various depart- ments of our college for research purposes. For those students particularly interested in medical research the college offers a fellowship in a five year program to the doctorate degree which includes a full year of research programming. This year the departments of physical medicine and rehabilitation. mental diseases, heart, cancer, obstetrics, pharmacology and clinical medicine are participating in pilot research or specific research pro- grams. For example: the obstetrics department has a program studying The effects of tobacco tnicotinel on the pregnant mother: or unborn child and the new born child. What is being done specifically in the research department? The studies currently underway in the research department are designed to provide a strong basic control system for future work. The problem under consideration is a definitive exploration of the phe- nomenon of myoneural transmission. Enzymatic, bio- electrical, biochemical, and biomechanical activities at the motor end plate will be focal' points for study. However, before actual work on the problem can be undertaken, some steps must be taken to assure the investigator that the phenomena observed on his instruments or by his senses are actually due to the variables introduced by him and not due to some stimulus outside of the experimental format such as ambient temperature or barometric pressure. Therefore, the following broad control systems have been obtained and are now being introduced as standard procedures: l. Polygraph recorder providing simultaneous EKG, EEG, respiration, muscle response, and chemical concentration gradients. 2. Oscilloscope stimulator unit for nerve action potentials. 3. Complete autopsies of experimental animals with photomicrographs. 4. Multichannel temperature recorder. 5. Ultraviolet fluorescence microscopy with closed circuit television. 6. Warburg studies of muscle cell respiration. 7. Electron microscopy of control and test tissues with photomicrographs. In conjunction with the latter, a further study under consideration is electronautoradiography utilizing the electron microscope and radioactive gold isotopes. The problem outlined above is basic research as opposed to clinical research, the difference between the two being that the former does not have a specific application as a focal point. However, basic research forms the broad steps that medical research depends on for its tools and applications. For example, the work outlined above may provide some key facts for applica- tion to such diseases as myesthenia gravis.

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