Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine - Synapsis Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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ADMINISTRATION A. ARCHIE FEINSTEIN, D.O. Assistant Dean for Clinical Training CAROL A. FOX, B.A. Director of Admissions and Student Affairs SPENCER G. BRADFORD, D.O. Assistant Dean for Basic Sciences Director of Continuing Medical Education ) SOPHIA F. BARTH, B.S., M.S. in Ed. Dean of Women

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FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATION So alike, and yet so very different. That was the first issue presented to us as we began our careers in osteopathic medicine. Changes were needed in the way that a problem was approached and conceptualized. A need to focus attention to specifics in a mind so used to appreciating the general, describes the feat that the faculty had to accomplish. Values were not threatened, just altered a bit in order to create a system of thought that is capable of separating the necessary from the superfluous. Liberalization was the goal of the under-graduate college. Familiarity with a scope of ideas and feelings that ranged from Archimedes to Pirandello was acquired. Achieved was the ability to respect the differences, rather than acclaim conformity. Worth was determined by appraisal of an idea within the structure of the time period and location, not by its degree of consonance with our own. The faculty was presented a collection of students confident in their ability to produce, but, uncertain to what it was that they were to deal with. Marriage of a science to an art is almost contradictory. Where was the thrust of concentration to be placed: on the facts that are sure to change in the next few years; or on the ability to rely on results that are seemingly unexplainable? That solution was never attempted. The faculty decided that the best care to the patient is delivered by a practitioner who commands as much factual information as possible, but, is delivered in a fashion that translates one ' s humanity. The latter is left to us to extract from our mentors and ourselves.

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i(J- ROBERT BRESSLER Director of Financial Affairs II ' 5f -frf VIRGINIA GAVIGAN Financial Aid Officer J SHERWOOD R. MERCER Past Vice President — Educational Affairs Instructor — History of Medicine JOHN DeANGELIS Past Director of Financial Affairs