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

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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

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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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INDEX OF ILLUSTRATIONS COUR DAILY ACTIVITIES IN PICTUREJ PAGE PRE-CLINICAL CLINICAL HISTOLOGY BACTERIOLOGY PUBLIC HEALTH PATHOLOGY PHYSIOLOGY PEDIATRICS MEDICINE OBSTETRICS ORTHOPEDICS NEUROLOGY DERMATOLOGY GENITO URINARY LITERARY DIVIDER Subject Van Slyke CO2 Combining Power Cystoscopy Spina Bifidia Ostetrical Poreceps Carcinoma of Pelvis CX-Rayl Lipiodol Injection CX-Rayl Osteosarcoma KX-Rayl Pneumothorax IX-Ray? Guniea Pig-nasal region Dorsal View-42 hour check Mitosis of Cells Anthrax Bacillus Ienner Vaccination Vesicle Calculus Carcinoma Anaplastic Endocarditis Basal Metabolism Test Eletrocardiograph Spina Bifidia, Bilateral Hernia Paralysis of Legs lSame infantl Hydrocephalus Marasmus Pneumothorax De Lee Stethoscope Post operative Incision for T B of spine Beck's Bismuth Paste injection into Psoas Abcess-migrating to primary focus in T B of Spine Skeletal Traction Unilateral Hemiatrophy Neurologic Contracture Cranioplasty Chronic Eczema Varicose Ulcer Rodent Ulcer lBasal cell Carcinomal Cystoscopy Colonial asepsis-hot oil! Frederick ll-first scientific congress St. Francis-branded by hot iron- a panacea for all ills. Egyptians-incantantions to drive away evil spirits Two hundred twenty-nine