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

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, BATELEURJ CLASS OF 1968

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UNIOR CLASS President ,.,...4,..,... Vice-President ........ Senator .,.......,... Senator .,.,.. Q... Secretary , .... . Treasurer .,,r..... Practical Health Kenneth B. Iuechter john F. O,Brien Arthur P. Birnkrant Robert S. Schwartz Ellen S. Philips Judith Friedman unior year was scheduled to start at 8 a.m. Monday, September 12, 1966. However life is not that simple. The medical establishment knowing that most students quit summer jobs before Labor Day has devised a scheme to occupy would-be juniors until school starts -the National Boards. We felt right at home on those two warm September days. We took up exactly where we had left off in June - taking short answer exams. It saddened us to look at our schedule. It called for no exams. Not even the devilish surgery quizzes were mentioned. However in spite of our disappoint- ment we resolutely decided to apply ourselves. Iimior year began with a bang, or perhaps with a tick-tock as our first lecture block was cardiology. It can emphatically be stated that we really mastered the philosophy of cardiology. Perhaps we never will leam to read an ECG but we've certainly found the true essence of cardiac failure. The genius of the integrated lecture schedule astounded us: 1. The Normal Heart 2. The Management of the Failing Heart 3. Inflammatory Disorders of the Breast It was obvious from the beginning that junior year was going to be a rare treat. In a well conceived plan to decrease the amount of lecture time, much course material was shifted to clinical situations. Instead of being lectured at from 8 to 12 in the 6th floor auditorium, we could leave at 10 a.m. and walk to the 9th