SUNY Downstate Medical Center - Iatros Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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AUred Adler, M .D. turn Long Island College Hospital into a school for general practitioners while making Physicians and Surgeons a school for training of medical specialists. As late as 1929 Dr. Butler retained his hope for an affiliation. The movement away from Brooklyn Heights began in 1923 when Long Island College Hospital became affiliated with the Department of Public Welfare. Medical students were sent to Kings County, Greenpoint and Kingston Avenue Hospitals. With the advent of these multiple training centers, Long Island College Hospital lost its function as the primary teaching hospital. Thus, while many trustees and teaching staff were retained, the long Island College of Medicine was created in 1930, as an independent entity. The birthday present, a piece of land at Grand Army Plaza, was to be the site of the new centrally located medical school, with af- filiations at Long Island College, Kings County, Brooklyn Jewish, Greenpoint, Kingston Avenue, Coney Island, Methodist, and Brooklyn Hospitals. Hopes for the new building collapsed with the stock- market. 26 In 1927 didactic lectures were eliminated from the fourth year. This policy was extended to the third year in 1946. The first clinical schedule in- cluded twelve weeks of medicine, eight weeks of obstetrics-gynecology, eight weeks of surgery, four weeks of pediatrics and thirty hours of psychiatry. Jean Redman Oliver became Chairman of the Department of Pathology in 1929. During his twenty- five year tenure he became world famous for his work on the kidney. His most significant accom- plishment was the microdissection and study of individual nephrons. The famous Viennese psychiatrist Alfred Adler joined the faculty in 1932, remaining until his death in 1937. He had worked with Freud, but his theory that social drives and needs were the key to human behavior led to the foundation of a separate school of psychiatry. .. ,fav jean Redman Oliver, M.D.