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

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BERT R. BOONE, M.D. Assistant Dean for Research You hear arguments that medical schools should train students for general practice. We can’t afford exclusivity in medical education. 'I'he nation needs researchers, too. In any case, the student must be stimulated to find his own forte. A certain percentage will be self-directed to various specialties or general practice. Obviously, wc aren’t going to “make” researchers. But, we can expose them to the field while they’re still students to see if there are some “curious ones.” Changing patterns of medical care are occurring so often and so fast that exact translation into the medical school curriculum is hardly practical. There is no such thing as graduating a completely trained physician. When he finishes medical school he must go on into a design he himself will create in his postgraduate work. The very best any medical school can do is to create an environment which will stimulate the curiosity of the student and inspire him to continue his development throughout his career. How do you create such an environment? A necessary spot in this intellectual home for the student is an area whore he’ll have an opportunity to rub elbows with the researcher. The new Basic Science Research Building will provide the appropriate atmosphere both for the student and the researchers of the Temple University Medical Center. Bert R. Boone, M.D. “Temple University School of Medicine has achieved its distinction in educational circles by placing the student in a position of pre-eminence . . .” Arthur D. Nelson, M.D. Assistant Dean 18

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LEROY E. BURNEY, MX), Vice-President of Health Sciences MEDICINE FOR A NEW AGE 1970 A prophet in our clay is a rash individual who must cope wit!) the speed, diversity and even the violence of change. One cannot avoid, however, a responsibility to recognize change and hopefully give it some intelligent direction. To predict the future, one must know the past. What have been some of the strengths at Temple? It has placed the highest values on students, faculty, ad-ministation and physical plant in that priority. This will continue. Your school has always believed its primary concern and responsibility is to teach the medical student, providing a sound educational experience and environment for him. This will not change, although methodology and content will and should. I have noted in my three years at Temple two conditions that do not always exist in every medical school: first, the faculty’s warm, friendly and personal interest in the student and, second, a spirit of friendliness and complete cooperation between the faculty in the basic sciences and the clinical fields. I would hope and expect that in spite of our family becoming larger in the next six years, this friendly spirit, interest and cooperation will continue and expand. Temple, in its teaching, has stressed the value and importance of the patient as a whole person, a human being. You are taught to treat a person with coronary occulsion, not to treat the disease as an isolated, unrelated entity. This difference in attitude may be a subtle one but it is vitally important. Technical competence alone is not enough. We arc more than a group of technicians: wc are a profession. Over 100 years ago, Virchow said that “Medicine is a social science in its very bone and marrow ... it unites in itself all knowledge of the laws which apply to the body and the mind.” A lavman recently emphasized this view when he quoted a comment of the president of a state medical society, who said. 140 years ago. “Clinical medicine is an unceasing employment of means for the accomplishment of specific or definite objects. Considered in relation to our knowledge of these means, the profession is a science — in relation to the application of them, it is an art. He who acquires the former, only, is learned: he who relies on the latter alone is ignorant, empirical and criminal; he who encompasses both reaches the highest attainable perfection. A university should constantly seek new knowledge. To answer this need, Temple's research and graduate training programs are expanding at a rapid rate. This is as it should be. Students benefit from a faculty engaged in research and graduate training and from their own active participation in research programs. This experience gives to the student an outlet for his own questing spirit and is a source of forming objective, disinterested judgments based upon exact ev idence, valuable in the development of a good physician. Other changes will occur by the time you return as an alumnus in 1970. New courses such as genetics and biometrics will be emphasized. There will be increasing teamwork with the social sciences, greater interdependence with the other schools of the Health Sciences and the University, increasing emphasis upon the training of allied health scientists, with perhaps a school encompassing these areas, and finally, a fuller realization of our opportunities and responsibilities in continuing education. In the final analysis, all of these changes will result in helping you and the other students leam the “three C’s” of education . . . curiosity, competence and conscience. I look forward with real pleasure to seeing you back here in 1970 when we can review together the realism or rashness of my prophecies.

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 LIVE L ECHES Out of a world inspired by Hope, groomed by higher education, and geared to achieve by human tenacity, this year, 1964, emerges dedicated to the reinterpretation of mankind’s inalienable rights. Never have so many armies been mustered to light the enemies of civilization: ignorance, bigotry', and disease. This decade of social and scientific reawakening has seen Education seek higher achievement with greater understanding, and Medicine serve mankind with new and better weapons against disease. In the midst of such advancements, however, there lies the ever present anathema of illiteracy and charlatanry. In this decade, Medicine has experienced its own social awakening. Medical centers throughout the country are reevaluating their approach to the patient. The division-ists. who through specialization split man into a myriad of systems - each to be treated in depth, but separately A Comprehensive Approach now are banding together to realize their full potential in a comprehensive treatment of the patient. Temple University Medical Center has achieved distinction in the Held of Comprehensive Medicine during these past ten years. Through a combined approach, a greater depth of care and understanding of the patient’s ills is being accomplished.