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

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HOSPITALS ENJOYING the privileges of study in eight large hospitals, as well as the Temple University Hospital, the student in his clinical years is afforded opportunities that are unparalleled. The strategic position of the Temple University Hospital in North Philadelphia, is a gateway, as it were, to the outpatient in that part of the city. Acutely awar. that the old Greatheart-Garretson Hospital was becoming somewhat antiquated, the Board of Trustees built, within the past year, a new wing on the University Hospital, with most modern facilities known to the healing art. Standing very impressively at the end of the Broad Street subway, with its majestic spires pointing to the sky. is the Jewish Hospital, to v hose wards the Temple students have access. Old Blockley, now Philadelphia General Hospital, by far the largest Hospital in the city, throws its doors open to the men of Temple as well as does the Municipal Hospital. Orthopedics could find no better place to be studied, and the principles of that phase of medicine be applied than at the Shriner's Hospital, situated on the Roosevelt Boulevard. St. Christopher's Hospital supplies all that is necessary to the earnest student of Children’s diseases, and Eagleville Sanitarium, a type of institution which stands very highly in the field of treatment for Tuberculosis. Finally, but not least of all, where the fledglings in medicine are first initiated into the sanctum sanctorum of the bedside, the Episcopal Hospital graciously allows the Sophomores to study Physical Diagnosis within its walls.

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Ihe Skull The Temple University Hospital THO' not the largest hospital in Philadelphia in point of size, nor boasting the greatest bed capacity, yet our hospital is second to none in activity. Temple University Hospital has a capacity of 438 beds, including 51 bassinettes, and the greater part of its out-patient department is conducted in the new medical school building. During the junior year we were first initiated into the clinics and ward walks on both sides of Broad Street and 'twas then that we realized the entire principles of the art and science of medicine were not locked up in the notebooks of our freshman and sophomore years. The senior year brought us a more intimate view and knowledge of our hospital. Our classes in the Amph. our O. R. Regime, and most of all. our case assignments made us feel that we were really and truly cogs, however small, in the great healing machine. On the staff of Temple University Hospital are Clinicians who are not only eminent in Eastern medical centers, but who are both nationally and internationally known. Their contributions to medical science, art, and literature are a source of pride to us who are privileged to attend this institution. Each year men of renown in some particular field of medicine are added to its staff, who, together with Dean Parkinson, medical director of the hospital, ably guide its destiny in keeping with the spirit of progress of a Greater Temple. Thirty 1933