UCSF Medical Center - Medi Cal Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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l DEAN SAUNDERS i 4 l First of all may I, in the name of the faculty, extend to the 1956 graduating class my heartfelt congratulations on the completion of their professional training and best wishes for a successful and rewarding career. We are confident that all of you will be a source of pride to us. We have every expectation that you will make significant contributions to the health and welfare of your community. It is my hope that you will continue to maintain through your Alumni Association a close tie with your Alma Mater, for the strength of this institu- tion depends, in large measure, upon the influences which you can bring to bear upon it in your professional career. It is my hope that we shall remain sensitive to your opinions. Godspeed in your enterprises! JOHN B. DEC. M. SAUNDERS, M.D. Dean, School of Medicine

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DEAN JOHNSTONE My heartiest best wishes and congratulations to each member of the graduating class of the four Schools on the San Francisco campus. This last year in a sense has been one of transition from the old order to the new. You have been able at least in part to reap the harvest of so many years of planning to provide for you a worthwhile environment and the physical facilities for your basic training in the professions you are to follow the rest of your lives. We can point with pride to the imposing structures which have arisen and are still arising in our midst ever keeping in mind all those who with foresight and aspiration have toiled to make our campus one of the great centers of medical education and research in the liar West. Although we may point with pride to the tower- ing buildings and the ample facilities they provide our contribu- tions to the general welfare of the state will be judged primarily on the quality of our main product - the graduate of the University of California Medical Center. The professional proficiency of the graduate is determined to a great extent by such elements as the qualifications of the faculty, methods of teaching and scope of curricula. Wlxile these elements do play a most important role in the molding of a professional career there are certain less tangible influences provided by campus life which will be of invaluable help in preparing you to meet the professional, social and economic problems which confront all of us. Your associations with the members of the teaching staff, your contacts, associations and re- lations with your fellow students and the ethics and philosophies you have developed with respect to your profession are all vastly important in determining what your future achievements shall be in society. You may not realize at this time, on the threshold of your career, the importance of all of these influences in preparing you to meet the complexities of our modern existence and to make your future a contented, happy and profitable one. The University has provided you with its facilities and environ- ment to prepare you for your place in today's world so should it continue to provide its help and influence during the rest of your professional life. The numerous highly diversified refresher courses, clinics and lectures offered by the various departments at the Medical Center, the consultation services of its research and teach- ing staffs and its publications are available to you. These multiple activities and services exist for your benefit and it behooves you to make use of them. No matter in what branch of the health sciences you may work it is mandatory that you keep abreast of the scientific times. Become an interested and active member of the alumni association of your own school. Return to the campus whenever it is possible for you to do so. With the completion of the Guy S. Millberry Union in a year or so we shall be able to entertain you quite royally. The best of luck in your future endeavors. HERBERT G. JOHNSTONE Dr-an of Student.:

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DEAN FLEMING In some seventeen years of deaning I have delivered enough messages to qualify for a bicycle and a Western Union cap. At first I was a little skeptical of the value of such messages and inclined to put them in the category of a Mayo1 s message of welcome to the delegates of a visiting convention. However, during these same years there has been enough response from the graduates to indicate that a message does stimulate some students to a little introspection and analysis which later may prove to be helpful. ' This message has to do with grades and records. During your student years there are two recording angels at workg one is Mrs. Chryst in Room 62B of U.C. Hospital, the other is the Recording Angel, third door to the right just inside the Pearly Gates. I know the University system Mrs. Chryst has to use, with its A to F grades and grade point averages. I do not know the other system, but I suspect the Recording Angel isn't quite as sure as our professors are, that he can accurately grade one student a B, and the other a C or even a D. The Recording Angel probably uses a Pass and Not Pass system, or maybe just a few short notes on day to day behavior. The point I wish to make is that the transcript Mrs. Chryst issues simply records some symbols that rather inaccurately evaluate a student's knowledge and skills. The transcript in the Office of the Recording Angel is a record of integrity, character, interest and kind- liness. It is a pretty private record because only you and the Angel know what it is. Not even the dean has access to this record, although there are times when he would give his eye tooth fthe solid onej for a look. I do not mean to say that the records in Room 62B are not of use. Certainly they lead to diplomas and licenses and future appointments and jobs and money and lots of things. However, it's the records in the room third door to the right inside the Pearly Gates that, in my opinion, count the most. They lead to satisfaction and respect and appreciation and affection. It is kind of nice to know that when the time comes, the latter record is already on file. Remember, you can't take the record in Room 62B with you. WILLARD C. FLEMING Dean, School of Dentistry