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

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David A. Axler, PhD Associate Dean for Student Affairs TEMPLE UNIVERSITY A Conummwrallh I atvmtty Srkool of Podlttrlr Mrdirmr Eiffel) 41 Rjtr SUM Itiibib-liihia Pmn»)hiiua I9107-2IV, IW (Jl ) F x ;iM6.TMW: D vl A Mkr. Ph t Avtonstr IVjui for Srutlml Affair Dear Class of 2000 On behalf of ihc Student Affairs Staff. I am delighted to congratulate each of you on your graduation from the finest school of podialric medicine in the country This accomplishment is testimony to your efforts and sacrifices in successfully meeting the demands of a very rigorous four-year program At times, the years here must have seemed very long and the goal very far. But those years in looking back, passed very quickly and your dedication and commitment enabled y ou to successfully meet all tlie challenges before you We arc proud of you and arc confident that your success will continue You took much from the Temple University School of Podialric Medicine and gave much. We are all better for having had you with us for four years TUSPM will always be here for you. If there is anything Student Affairs can do for you in the years ahead, please call If not. please call anyway so wc may stay in touch Belter y et. stop by and see us. You arc always welcome Wc w ish you good health, professional and personal happiness and peace of mind. The best to each of you David A. Axler. Ph D. Associate Dean for Student Affairs

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Marilyn R. Fenton, PhD Assistant Dean for Educational Affairs TEMPLE UNIVERSITY A Common wrUUi I'ruvmity School of Podiacnc MeRIcUc Eighth M Rice Su«l PhtUddpTuj. Pcmsytvanu 1910 2«s 6 nor 215829 0300 To the Members of the Class of 2000 I would l»ke to take th.s opportunity to congratulate each of you on your achievement You should be very proud It has been a pleasure for me to work with you and participate in your education The challenges of pod-atric medical school were many but with hard work and perseverance you met the challenges and achieved your goal, you are now Doctors of Podiatnc Medicine In the real world there will be new challenges, but your graduation signifies that you have acquired the skills and training needed to face them Believe in your abilities and continue in your educational pursuits for much of your learning is still to come I hope that each of you have a happy and successful professional career Your success will be measured in part by the satisfaction of your patients and the contnbutions you make to the growth of your community and your profession Make a commitment to excellence and get involved' Good luck in your future endeavors Sincerely yours, Manlyn R Fenton, Assistant Dean for PhD Educational Affairs

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Class of 2000 Rite of Passage Speech The George A♦ Sonnebom Memorial Lecture by E. Dalton McGlamry on ApriC 3, 1998 Finally, you are going to do what you came to medical school to do in the first place. You are going to be a medical detective You are going to examine patients. You are going to consult with patients and teach them the meaning of your findings. And you are going to treat patients. That is why you decided to come to medical school, is it not? For the past two years, and even during your undergraduate years before that, you have been studying the basic sciences and basic medical sciences Sometimes you got the idea that each scientist under whom you studied was trying to make you an expert in his or her particular subject And. yet. there was a reason. Because it is only with the basic medical background that you have acquired that you are able to be an effective medical detective As you begin to see some of the more complex cases in the clinic, you will quickly appreciate that few patients will present as textbook cases. Few will have all the symptoms you expect And most will have symptoms and signs that are common to a number of different Ills It is through the application of the background you have acquired that you will be able to reason through the patient's findings and arrive at an appropriate diagnosis and treatment plan. Starting now, if indeed you haven’t already begun, you are going to be a teacher To be a physician of any type involves teaching. Some of you may say. ’but I don't want to teach’. Ah. but you do! You may or may not want to teach in a podiatric medical college But you will be teaching the ciass that comes behind you. And as you become residents, you will teach your junior residents and extems. You will be teaching patients why certain tests are Important. You will be teaching them the meaning of your findings and diagnosis. You will be teaching them the alternatives of treatment and helping them to understand why one treatment is preferable to another Willis Hurst, author of THE HEART, has done a marvelous little monograph entitled THE DOCTOR AS A TEACHER. I would recommend it to you It makes a good case for the fact that ail successful doctors are teachers. Your ability to teach will have a great deal to do with your success as a physician. If you are going to be happy and really fulfilled in podiatric medicine you are going to be a lifetime student Up until now. you've largely had to read assignments and more assignments in every course you've token But from now on. you need to be doing additional reading. Even if you only have 15-30 minutes per day to do so. you need to constantly read other clinician's ideas You don't read other doctors' papers because you will want to copy them Very often you will find the ideas shallow, or outdated, or based on false premises. But that Is not why you read You read to stimulate your own thinking. Often you get excellent information from the papers and texts that you read But always stimulate your own mind and thinking Lawrence Perkins wrote, 'The essence of education is incompletion. A person who has completed his education is no longer educated. A measure of education is the awareness of an increasing number of things that lie ahead of you. Make the time to read something every day Allow yourself to be stimulated Allow your thinking to grow and evolve What you believe to be absolute truth today you may not believe tomorrow John Basmajian. the great medical writer who was at Emory University for a number of years, is a friend of mine. I once noted that he had over 40 books in print at the time I asked. 'John, how In the world do you manage to write so much?' He replied, 'I have to keep writing, because I don't want to be held accountable for what I thought 5 years ago The only defense against that is to be able to point to what I have subsequently written.' There is no greater fulfillment than that which one experiences as he excels in podiatry. Continue to read. Allow your horizon to expand.