Temple University School of Medicine - Skull Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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 THE SAMARITAN HOSPITAL

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THE SKULL arc but temporary and bis greatest victor) is but a delayed defeat. For all that, light on he must until he is beaten back and his last effort fails against the foe. Who is it that is so hastily summoned when the shadows of death darken the light of the living? When pain tortures the body and life hangs in the balance? He is the guardian of the well and the courage of the sick. One needs more than skill to be a good physician. There is a call for devotedness, and for generosity of character. It is the glory of the medical profession that it numbers among its members men of such gifts as well as men of scientific achievements. Its standard of success is not material or financial. The greatest physician is not he who has made the most money out of his profession, but the man who has done the most good for humanity in serving his suffering fellow-men. The physician is the servant of the i oor as well as of the rich, of those who cannot reward him—even often of those who will not reward him—as of those who recompense his services with the best return they can make him. Mis life is one of continued sacrifice and unselfishness. He exposes himself cheerfully to disease. lie sets his own health and his comfort below that of his fellowmen. He faces hardships which they often do not fully appreciate. But some day lie. too, will fall, a victim of the same destroying forces in the midst of the fight he is waging against the enemies of life. Some day, too, with failing strength and in misery of pain, into that realm—the dark borderland, from where he has drawn back so many others. But in his days lie is rich in opportunity to leave behind him a harvest of generous deeds. And here, fellow classmates, as I close and as we step out into the world with a degree of Doctor of Medicine, let us think over these few words, realize their meaning and if we are faithful to our vocation, we may look forward to a life of unblemished service to all mankind. 5 11 H. E. Bacon.

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THE SKULL HE Medical Department of Temple University advocates a high standard in medical education. Its teachers are carefully selected from men and women well qualified by training, education and experience for teaching their special subjects. The high standard attained by the graduates of this department before the various state boards of medical examiners lias been prc-cminentlv satisfactory, a fact of which the institution is justly proud. The Samaritan Hospital was opened to the students, and clinical teaching is conducted in the amphitheatre, dispensaries and wards of this growing institution. The Faculty was gradually and carefully increased, and conditions improved as the classes grew. In the year 1907. the Temple College was granted the title of Temple University bv the courts of Philadelphia. This made the Medical Department in name as in fact the department of a great University. Shortly after the granting of the name Temple University, there was an affiliation of the Temple University with the Philadelphia Dental College and the Garretson Hospital and the Medical School was, in 1907, transferred to the Philadelphia Dental College buildings. Eighteenth and Buttonwood Streets. This at once gave the school commodious quarters. The Medical Department of the Temple University, in 1901. had thirty-one matriculates, for the year 1924-1925 it enrolled 222 students. In the 1907 the school established a four-year day course of eight and a half months each. During the past year new laboratories have been constructed and equipped in Histology and Embryology; Physiology; Bacteriology and Pathology: Physiological Chemistry and the Anatomical Rooms. The Museum has been altered to make it serve the practical purpose for daily teaching and not a room to house a ‘‘collection of material. The Library, in charge of a full-time librarian, is continually adding new books and periodicals. The present Faculty consists of four Emeritus Professors, twenty Professors, four Clinical Professors, fourteen Associate Professors, sixteen Associates, seventeen Lecturers, thirteen Demonstrators, seventeen Instructors and thirty-one Clinical Assistants, a total of one hundred and thirty-six. The Temple University has three hospitals which are used for clinical instruction. The greater portion of the teaching is done at the Samaritan Hospital; the Grcatheart Hospital is devoted to maternity cases and the Garretson Hospital also is used for clinical teaching. In addition the student body is assigned for instruction to the Philadelphia General Hospital, the Philadelphia Hospital for Contagious Diseases and the Eagleville Sanitarium with its dispensary service at the Phipps Institute. A new wing to the Samaritan Hospital soon will l e completed and alterations will be made to the old wing, so that the new Samaritan Hospital will have three hundred beds.