Ohio State University College of Medicine - Caducean Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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The Man ot the Year -- 194'7 The class of 1947 of The Ohio State University College of Medicine proudly presents Dr. Dwight M. Palmer as its “Man of the Year”. Early in our freshman year in medical school, we recognized that he was a man with superior training, excellent teaching ability and a unique interest in the prob- lems of each student. He has exhibited these 2 ea de a a gy qualities repeatedly, which justify his worthiness to receive this annual recognition and our pride in this choice. We first became associated with Dr. Palmer during “Here I am, about six our first week in medical school, when he introduced months old, looking rachitic and hydroceph- alic.” himself to the class in our first lecture in gross anatomy. Little did we realize how closely we were to become associated with him in the ensuing few years. During that first and hectic year we came to know him and he to know us, and we marveled at and admired the huge storehouse of knowledge from which he frequently drew to impart bits of ‘wisdom to us. Our initiation into the intricacies of the central nervous system came at the close of the freshman year, when we studied neuroanatomy, using Dr. Palmer’s “The Human Nervous System” as our text- book. Again by means of his guidance, vast knowl- edge and interesting presentation of the subject, we became well informed of this increasingly im- portant field of medicine. In this course Dr. Palmer introduced us to the fields of neurology and psychi- atry, of which he was to teach us more during our remaining years in school. During these latter years he did much to impress upon us the importance of psychosomatic medicine in the diagnosis and treat- eG Oe ment of many disorders, besides imparting freely to the ROTC at us his knowledge of psychiatry. It is in the field of In Carlisle Barracks, summer of 1928. Nine

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The Man of the Year -- 194'7 UT COT tm 0200000) 01 Dwight Miller Palmer, B.S., M.S., M.D.

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The Man ot the Year -- 1947 (continued) “T have condensed seven books into this sentence: 3 33 ‘The brain is essential to life’. DwicHTt M. PALMER As camp physician, Camp Lazarus, 1929. neurology and psychiatry that Dr. Palmer is espe- cially proficient. He is a diplomate of The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and Chairman of the Department of Neurology and Psychiatry in the College of Medicine. This Department was formed in January 1946, and much of the organiza- tion and administrative work was his responsibility. Dwight Miller Palmer was born to William A. and Jennie A. Palmer at Scio, Ohio on February 14, 1906. His childhood was spent in Scio and he grad- uated from the local high school in 1924. Following the completion of his high school edu- cation, he enrolled as a pre-medical student at The Ohio State University where he became a member of Theta Nu Sigma social fraternity. Two years hence, the fall of 1926, he was admitted to the Col- lege of Medicine at The Ohio State University. After his freshman year, because of his intense in- terest and excellent record in gross anatomy, he accepted an assistantship in that subject for the school year 1927-28. The following year he was made an instructor in that department, a position he held until 1934. However his interest in anatomy was secondary, proclaiming his ambition to be a path- ologist. Toward that end he began working with Dr. Scott in 1930 in the Department of Pathology on Ten