Medical College of Pennsylvania - Iatrian Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Eva Fernandez Fox, M.D., Chair- man, Department of Radiology, our advisor during the clinical years. Dr. Fox has achieved a gra- cious balance between dignity and informality in giving enthusiasti- cally of her exuberance, warmth and sympathetic support. Wherever the art of medicine is loved there is also love of human- ity, Hippocrates ' J 1 A J •

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Marion Spencer Fay, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., joined the faculty of Woman ' s Medical College in 1935 as Professor of Physiological Chemistry. In 1946 she was named Dean, and in 1959 was elected President as well. Before undertaking her unique ad- ministrative responsibilities as the only woman president of a medical college in this hemisphere, Dr. Fay specialized in the field of biochemistry as teacher, author and researcher. She has re- ceived honorary doctorates from eight institutions of higher education. Irene E. Maher, M.D. (left), As- sociate Dean, and Doris G. Bar- tuska, M.D. (above), Assistant Dean, have added much to the ef- fectiveness of this administration which has seen many advances in the faculty and facilities of the Wo- man ' s Medical College. Their aim has always been to provide the best possible medical education for the students, and their devotion has paved the way for hundreds of young women entering the profes- sion of medicine.

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The Freshman Year is a beginning. Not only the beginning of a career in medicine, but the establishment of new relationships and the as- sumption of a new kind of respon- sibility, to one ' s self and to one ' s future patients. It is unlike any- thing you have ever known before. To each person entering the first year of medical school, the experi- ence will have a different meaning; the realization of a goal long sought; the challenge of the intel- lect; the opportunity for service. To all it will mean hard work, long hours of study, frustration, discov- ery, anxiety and a feeling of kin- ship with all those who have shared this experience. This first year is an introduction to the fundamentals of the science of medicine. The study of anatomy is to medi- cine as geography is to history; it describes the theater of events. For some, it is also the first encounter with death. For the physician, Death belongs to life as birth does. The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down. Biochemistry, a seemingly hope- less array of formulas, calculations, metabolic pathways. Although the intricacies may be elusive, a basic scientific approach and training in logical thinking are achieved.