New York Medical College - Fleuroscope Yearbook (Valhalla, NY)

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HOMEOPATI-IIC SOCIETY THE modern aim of education is toward the creation of a school life that will closely approximate the living conditions under which the graduates will be required to live. But while the necessity of attaining this objective is taught at the higher centers of learning, there is very little of it reflected in actual classroom teaching. An outstanding in- dictment of medical education is the lack of correlation between class room didactics and every day practice. Tragic, but true, is the fact that graduating physicians do not know the modern developments of medicine, and are at an absolute loss to cope with the economics of office practice. To a limited extent hospital work is able to tie together the practical and the theory, but it is not enough. Reading of Journals may help to void the gap, but here the student has neither the time, nor the ability to select articles of value. Medical lectures, with prom- inent speakers and the resultant discussions, offer the student an admirable method of learning. The County Homoepathic Society offers us a splendid opportunity to advance our medical knowledge and to establish social contacts. It hol-ds monthly meetings, in our College Library, at which topics of general medical interest are very ably discussed. Speakers include most of the faculty members of our school, and prominent men from the outside. After the lectures and their discussions, collations are served, and informal groups of our professors discuss the ways of life. While primarily it is an organization of practicing physicians, students are always welcome to attend, and-incidentally-we are always given a hearty reception by our faculty members. Medical students are proverbially addicted to the extravagant use of midnight oil. But, even as students, we all realize that we can spare time for anything that will further our career. The monthly meetings of the County Homoeopathic Society offers this advancement. To the knowledge of modern medicine that we gain, there is offered the additional opportunity of learning the realities and difficulties of every- day practice, and also the chance to meet our Professors on a plane of equality. l l 1 Two hundred twenty seven

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MEMBERS I THE DUNI-IAM CLUB THE Dunham Club is one of the outstanding medical organizations within our College group in the metropolitan area. lt is Well named in honor of Carroll Dunham. Carroll Dunham was a Dean of our College. In his day, when he wrote the science of therapeutics, he was unquestion- ably the most outstanding student of natural therapeutics of his time. Studious, purposeful, highly intelligent, he sensed and appreciated the law of the tissues in response to a deleterious invasion of a pathological process. He studiously analyzed the reparative methods of nature in the cure of disease, and the effects of medicinal substances in aiding nature to keep the processes of the body in that equilibrium known as health. He recorded his experiences, findings and deductions, in language clear, forceful and convincing. The Dunham Group, true to the traditions of our School, have fostered, built up and fearlessly protected the best interests of our Institution. At its monthly meetings, beside a fixed scientific program, it invariably discusses the policies and happenings of the College and our School in general. lts membership as depicted below, speaks eloquently of the quality of its make-up. In the past few years, death has depleted its membership by the untimely death of five of its very outstanding members: Dr. E. Rodney Fiske, Dr. George Parker Holden, Dr. I. Perry Seward, ' Dr. Ralph Alexander Stewart, and during the past few months, Dr. Dieffenbach, the great financial alumnus and outstanding physiotherapeutist of our group, who died suddenly of apoplexy. Earl H. Eaton Nathaniel Ives I. Wilford Allen Edwin S. Munson Walter G. Crump Ieremiah T. Simonson Bert B. Clark I. Ivemy Dowling Louis B. Kaufman William MacLean Milton Wilson Lindsley F. Cocheu Two hundred twenty six E. Wallace MacAdam Walter G. Crump, Ir. Eugene P. Roberts Iames Canders Clifford Hayner Samuel B. Moore Linn I. Boyd Wallace B. House Philip Schmahl H. Keith T. McCavack R. Turner

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AMERICAN MEDICAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION E VEN though the medical student body is a constantly changing one, there is something more akin among them than is found among doctors. Medical student days are a tradition, a unique experience. It is not the carefree college chap we find here: it is a man with college behind him, bound down to an unyielding routine, who must discipline his mind and his behavior, and learn to take the indefinable and ruthless IT. Each one of us who has gone through this regimen can outline almost to the hour how any individual in an American medical school spends his days fand often, nightsl. Each knows what courses the freshman or sophomore is taking, and what rhmed doggerel he is learning in order to remember the disconnected facts. The very jokes that originate in the anatomy lab on one coast are heard within the year in the medical schools of the other coast. Thought and feeling in one medical school are duplicated in every other. The mould into which New York student's life fits is one to which the California student conforms. This is why the American Medical Students' Association has grown so rapidly, and why it must inevitably become a great and successful movement. This is why American medical education, now the best in the world, will at some time become ideal when we, the students, can make suggestions con- cerning curricular and extra-curricular activities, from the students viewpoint an almost ideal four years' experience. The aims of the American Medical Students' Association as expressed through its publications and conferences are as follows: l. To aid, through suggestion, demonstration and discussion in the task of the American Medical Association-that of regulating American medical education. 2. To reach a stand on the interpretation of an internship, on how it should be awarded, and to make available to all senior students a catalogue of the internships in the United States, which shall give more information than is now available in the educational number of the I. A. M. A. 3. To feel out and study the trends, direction, and perhaps of the medical profession, so that we may graduate from student-indealist to doctor-realist without the disillusioning shock which comes to those who sit in their offices and wait for patients, or find they must succumb to the temptation of unethical practice in order to pay their office rent. 4. To see, hear, speak, and drink with that Frosh from Tennessee and that Soph from Wyoming who know, as wel as we, how to remember easily the carpal bones. Flower Representatives: ill Louise Fischer C23 Thomas Lynch C37 Iohn Mullen Two hundred twenty-eight