St Louis University - Archive Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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v FRESHMEN ING of the medical faculty board. ffl . y ,X T 1 W Ly y p kg' y , ff? ,q q. gf' xy i b ljx, lk 5 -fy X ,QET 'V X Q Wi grrrq 1 'L-:V n , , Fay, , ,L -f . Y, 'Nil' LV QQ- i r t ,iii - Qin 13:-gi--L, .V Vjltypgj X ,E N- l 7 if Z pf: 1531 , f11riTiEi, Q , L, ' Y -J , 3 in ,JV ff: K, T ,I -'V g if i ' 5 'N W K X55-if .V - V, A ,.! 1 iraq, s-,q fjgzf. xy' klily I -uqrif ,' yf rg: I f Q' -x 'I fig ,Y - ,K X With medicine, therefore, medical education has changed. And it has changed at the same rate of acceleration as have the discoveries that pertain to medicine. Doctors, in consequence of the progress of the past twenty-five years, now have a deeper insight into the human constitution, into anthropological and etiological factors in disease, into hereditary and environmental influences 5 they have come to understand diagnosis more and more completely. Therapeutics have radically left their old moorings, and have found a new but constantly shifting point of attachment in the treatment of the dis- eased patientf' The influence of physical forces, such as that of light, heat and electricity, has been added to the physician's armatarium. V Medicine, then, is no longer a study apart from others. It is aided by the physical sciences, by the social sciences, by a more complete psychology. In its turn, medicine, by its very progress, has aided the other fields of knowledge. But most important of all, it has succeeded in producing better doctors who are more capable of dealing with their patients, more sure in their methods, less uncertain in their diagnoses, more effective in their treatment. More exacting demands are put on the physician of today than on the one of yester- day. Consequently, the type of student entering medical schools must be a better type than the one of yesterday. More is required of him, he must be prepared to give more. V Formerly the requirement was a spirit of unsparing service, of self-dedication to duty, of physical hardihood and broad sympathy. The physician of today must have v24v . . . in the School of Medicine. THE AMPHI THEATRE in the Desloge Hospital MEET

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MAZING developments in medicine and in its many subsidiary sciences dur- ing the last quarter century have complicated enormously, much more than the average layman can realize, the educational processes, the curricula and modes of teaching in the schools of medicine throughout the country. So rapid are the scientific developments occurring in the basic sciences, that it is dimcult for medical edu- -cation, indeed for medical educators and certainly for medical students, to adjust them- selves to the new discoveries and to their consequent new demands. It is especially dif- ficult for the medical student to keep himself informed of the progress which is being made while he is assimilating the knowledge of the past. V The astounding thing in all of this is that schools of medicine have been able even in this short time to absorb so much of what is happening throughout the world into their curriculum. VVhen a new discovery, a procedure, a drug, a biological product is advanced as probably effective for human welfare by any one of thousands of laboratories in any section of the world, it finds its way sooner or later into a scientific publication. The instructors and teachers in any one of the many fields of medical thought must themselves first of all read and assimilate these announcements, many of them fundamental in char- acter, revolutionary in viewpoint, new in method and often enough subversive of tra- dition. The instructors in turn must study and test, criticize and evaluate 5 often enough they must separate the half truth from the shadow of truth, from the absolute truth, the appearance of truth from its reality. They must content themselves with probabilities g they must know them as such. They must realize when they are no longer probabilities, they must know when these probabilities have become certainties or when they have been rejected as false. All this requires reading, and digesting, and assimilating, and thinking. And still the work of assimilation is not completed. The modern teaching of medicine is not the detailing of knowledge. Modern medicine is best taught through the agency of the current journal which even the elementary student of medicine is encouraged to read, not so much for the information, but rather for the mental power and often for the skill which the newer contributions are naturally more capable of developing. v THE KEY-NOTE OF SCIENCE . . . is research. Here, in a Medical School laboratory, is being developed a photo electric colorimeter, capable of determining differences in the mineral content of water within one part in twenty five million. v 25 v

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IUNIORS Cabovel AND SOPHOMORES th School of Medicine. THE INFOR- MATION DESK . . . on the second floor, d t e b ochemistry laboratory. all of these, but in addition he must have a mental capacity which is large enough to encompass the ever-widening fields of medical interest, to assimilate the constantly growing number of publications and books, and to bring to bear the abstract findings of the laboratory upon the physical incapacities of the living patient. It is amazing that medical schools have been able thus to raise the level of their achievement to keep con- stantly parallel with the rising reservoir of knowledge about man and his suffering. If anything more remarkable can be thought of, it might well be this-that among the youth of today there should be found, through a process of selection constantly more efficient and exacting, enough individuals who are not only capable of living up to the requirements demanded of them, but who, in a world of progressively more acute rivalry and competition, are not only willing but eager to enter a Held of endeavor in which the disparity between the measure of service rendered and the measure of financial return is undoubtedly greater than in any one of the lay professions. i I l s 1 i i Q. if if it l j it Q Q 1'g I 1 i i V The School of Medicine at St. Louis University has adapted itself to all the changes ,il demanded of it by scientihc and medical progress. Nevertheless, while changing to meet new conditions, it has held steadfast to the ideals it has always set before itself-to gradu- tt ate men who are not only aptly Ht for their profession, who are thoroughly trained to . take their place in the topmost ranks among doctors, but men who have been trained ethically, who will always be conditioned by the eternal truths of Catholic philosophy, li who will be doctors eminently fit for their profession and true to the truth found in the 1 Catholic Church's body of precepts and dogmas. li f- X. -fa.. f -f-, , .- . if '?'37e .affi . he e ,i r K e , .i .a i itrt Y' li'irii J xtiii t U Vlii liii I I 1 l 4 1 1 A-vi MI1: l