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

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FRANK C. HAMMOND. M.D., F.A.C.S.. Dean 120]

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T. U. M. S. THE SKULL 19 2 7 LABORATORY OF ANATOMY I 19}

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T. U. M. S. SKULL 19 2 7 THE T5he School of JXtedicine of Toemple University THE School of Medicine of Temple University, like all the other departments of this institution, was not opened until a demand was made by a representative number of ambitious young men and women for an evening course. President Conwell had frequently been appealed to by students of other departments for a course, so arranged, that they could earn a living and college expenses and at the same time pursue a course in medicine. In the spring of 1901 the Board of Trustees decided to open an evening medical school. A faculty and department was organized, and a circular arranged, announcing that a course consisting of five years’ evening instruction would be given by Temple College. The first faculty consisted of twenty professors, lecturers, demon-strators and instructors. The curriculum was so arranged that the same number of hours would be devoted to it as in the day schools. There were about thirty students matriculated for the college session of 1901-2. It was found that the students who applied for evening instruction in medicine, were willing to make any persona! sacrifice to acquire a medical education. They, therefore, applied themselves most diligently to the work. The evening school was discontinued on account of legislation in the various states by which graduates of an evening school were prevented from appearing before the respective state boards for licensure. The high standard attained by the graduates of this department before the various state boards of medical examiners has been preeminently 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 Uni-sity, by 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 School of Medicine was, in 1907, transferred to the Philadelphia Dental College buildings, Eighteenth and Buttonwood Streets. This at once gave the school commodious quarters. The School of Medicine of Temple University, in 1901, had 31 matriculates; for the year 1926-1927 it enrolled 212 students. In the year 1907 the School established a four years' day course of eight and a half months each. The College 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, three Clinical Professors, sixteen Associate Professors, fifteen Associates, seventeen Lecturers, ten Demonstrators, twenty-three Instructors, twenty-nine Clinical Assistants. The Temple University has three hospitals which arc used for clinical instruction. The greater portion or he teaching is done at the Samaritan Hospital; the Greatheart 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 Phipp Institute. A new wing to the Samaritan Hospital has been completed and alterations made to the old wing, so that the new Samaritan Hospital has three hundred beds; it has two lecture rooms, a mortuary with a seating capacity of thirty; numerous models for teaching purposes, a clinical amphitheatre, and a library in charge of a full-time librarian. Dr. John C. Applegate, who had been Professor of Obstetrics from 1903 to 1926, died on December 20, 1926. Dr. Jesse O. Arnold, Clinical Professor of Obstetrics, was advanced by the Board of Trustees to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Doctor Applegate. President Beury has launched a Twenty Million Dollar Campaign for the University, to be known as The Russell H. Conwell Foundation for Temple University. This Foundation will consecrate itself to the raising of the fund over a period of fifteen years. Of this amount two million dollars will be used for the erection of buildings for housing the School of Medicine and two million dollars will be set aside as an endowment fund for the medical school. The Trustees have announced the purchase of the lot at the northwest corner of Broad and Ontario Streets, upon which will be erected the School of Medicine. The first City Drive for the Foundation, was instituted February, 1927, at the conclusion of which it was announced that $1,628,634.85 had been subscribed. Frank C. Hammond, Dean. {21 ]