New Jersey College of Medicine - Journal Yearbook (Jersey City, NJ)

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Microbiology! We heard about it almost from our first days as freshmen medical students. The grapevine said it would be our toughest basic science course, and so it was for most of us. We were told that all we had to do to pass the course was to pass the final exam. It soon became apparent that this would not be particularly easy. The course content seemed to include everything necessary to make us Ph.D's in microbiology. And how many hours did we spend in that overheated lab? As time went on we found out that it did make a difference whether or not your afternoon conferences were given by Dr. Briody, for he was the source of most of the information needed for the exams. Of course, now that we have progressed to the comparative safety of the clinical years, we can look back and recognize that, with the exception of the highly arbitrary criteria for passing or failing, microbiology was one of the better courses we encountered. The lectures and labs were well attended by both faculty and students. We certainly cannot complain that we were not exposed to enough immunology! Nor were we short-changed in other aspects of the speciality. .When iunior year finally arrived, we found out that some of the stuff we had learned in Microbiology could actually be used to treat patients. Occasionally, it came in handy to know what organisms were most likely to be responsible for a pa- tient's infection. Knowing what antibiotics to use in a given case became practical knowledge rather than memorized trivia. In short, we found that in Microbiology we had acquired a basis to help us make clinical decisions later on. And maybe that was what the course was all about in the first place. v 4 i TT iitji' 'ku' 2' Y i it , fri' , v ' 'ra i T 'H ' ll tf' i Y' L 1f'f7 L H11 . ' ' , 3: Al i. .. gp i , '- ,e. 't, , 'F f 5 ' 7 9 g', . , '-Q.':'-.- 'Y . 1: . xii' ' V X it Eid, f . I --i ui, . Y? 3 ,N i l iii ' ' leg, ' Ht'-, ix vigil' 'ii I E, 2. 1. ,. . i T 2 it ss. . ZZ ugh 41 ,Y i 4 it 'ljsslli if ' f L i glltfil i. . -i-I asf: , , T ti' i -ii, i 1 4 , asm . x it i ig it it BERNARD BRIODY, Ph.D., CHAIRMAN Seated L. to R. Geoffrey Furness, Ph.D. Bernard Briody, Ph.D., Chairman Pasqual F. Bartell, Ph.D. Standing, Marvin Schwalb, Ph.D. Emmett Bassett, Ph.D. Arthur Krikszens, Ph.D. Roswell Coles, Jr., Ph.D. Lawrence Feldman, Ph.D. . W wk W , Q if-as 2 ff