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

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the library... ee ee ea The Health Center Library soon became a well frequented habitat for both nursing and medical students. In many ways, however, a trip to the library provided the day’s combat: fighting for the most secluded carrel in the stacks, bickering about the atrocious 10c per day fine on tardy books, struggling to ignore the tantalizing beauty of the student nurse seated across the table or battling to keep oneself awake after the measly two hours’ sleep the previous night. For most of us, however, the real benefit of “combat” was often learned too late.

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anatomy tlh Seated: P. Kurtz, E. Martin, M. Domer, J. Doyle. Standing: Miss Speiser, instructor; P. Noon; J. Thomas. Gaining knowledge about the normal functions of the was spent practicing injections and giving bed baths on human body was the first step in the training of the student unsuspecting classmates and always cooperative “Mrs. nurse. Many long hours were spent studying anatomy and Chase.” By autumn, little did the patients know how inex- physiology with the dubious aid of a cat, a frog, and a perienced their sophomore student nurse really was! turtle. Later, in preparation for actual patient contact, time gz injections A. Kiefer, E. Beck, Miss J. Petit, B. McCarty, L. Finley.

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the final orals. pathology GES. . As the end of the preclinical years drew to a close for the sophomores each spring quarter, some 30 of 140 plus in the class were exposed to agonizing trauma—the pathology orals. With the understanding that they could receive no better than a “C” for the year’s work in pathology (and 15 credit hours), those 30, plus or minus, waited until Thursday morning of spring finals week for the showdown. And truly this was the moment of crisis, for the sophomores failing to cross the big gap into the junior year were generally those deficient in pathology. For those who had studied the student nurses rather than their books, this moment held great terror, as Dr. Scarpelli posted the thirty names for Drs. D. Scarpelli, E. vonHaam. The orals . . . some found that they had never known real spasm before!