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

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1 Mr Tb . 32 - W x - J , t ' 1 v For the junior student in medicine and surgery, the best teaching is that taught by the patient himself. The whole art of medicine is in observation, but to educate the eye to see, the ear to hear and the fin- ger to feel takes time, and to make a beginning, to start the student on the right path, is the essence of the third year. The most essential part of a stu- dent ' s instruction is obtained, as I believe, not in the lecture room, but at the bedside. Nothing seen there is lost; the rhythms of disease are learned by frequent repetition; its unforeseen occurrences stamp themselves indelibly on the mem- ory. Before the student is aware of what he has acquired he has learned the aspects and causes and probable issue of the diseases he has seen with Jlis teacher, and the proper mode of dealing with tlicm, so far as his master knows. Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The clinic years, anticipated since the beginning of medical school, have arrived. The hospital is now the classroom, and formal lectures are only a small part of the junior student ' s continuing medical edu- cation. The hospital becomes a fa- miliar place, and although one ' s contribution to hospital life may be small at first, it can be very valu- able to the patient who may find reassurance and comfort from the student who is able to give of her time and herself.

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. And miles to go before I sleep. Robert Frost