University of Florida College of Medicine - Retrospectroscope Yearbook (Gainesville, FL)

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ORIENTATION ...MSB 611... dark lecture halliwx MEPS Andes brightly lit stage . . . strangers all around .. . everyone ; bubbling with excitement and pride. . . we were the select... the privileged .. . we had made the cut... a general anxiety as well... who were these other fierce competitors?... what would life be like among them?. .. will I be merely mediocre here? . . . did I!make the right choice? . . . there are more internships than medical school graduates . . . Smiley Hill . . . medical students seem to forget to read by their fourth year . . - Hazel Donegan . . . a man who is last in the class early in biochemistry can eventually teach on the faculty . . . Pat O’Leary . . . the first of those God damned minitests . . . 1, 2, and 3; 1 and 3; 2 and 4; 4 only; all of the above... meets Christmas treeing speedsters ... am] really supposed to ne noe learn all this in 4 years? The very first step towards success in any occu- pation is to become interested in it. Osler The hardest conviction to get into the mind of fe RAN. a beginner is that the education upon which CEYBRVZA) he is engaged is not a college course, not a OSS ss medical course, but a life course, for which omens the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation. Achilles bandaging Patroclus, Potter Sosias of Vulci Osler 5th century B.C., Greece

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Reflections As perplexity of soul will be your lot and portion, accept the situation with a good grace. Sir William Osler What was it like? .. . Medical school. . . at Florida... in the class of 1976? It was, of course, the best of times and the worst of times; the unique experience of eighty-two individuals; a juncture in time, in space and in the passage of our lives where none of us shall ever be again. . . It has ended, but it was not one of those experiences which, sadly, slip by quietly, unnoticed and unremembered, like a fiddler crab in one’s path on a silent evening’s solitary shoreline stroll . . . Medical school was peripheral to the lives of none of us. At times it seemed to overwhelm us, like a breaking wave tumbling unwary swimmers helter-skelter up the shore... . and even in its calmer moments, its tides and currents pulled at us inexorably, seeking to shape our minds, our values and our entire lives .. . Some grew to love and some even to hate the experience, but all lived it intensely; and re- gardless of our attitude, now that it has ended, we can each feel that we have made at least a significant be- ginning to the course of our adult lives.

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To winnow the wheat from the chaff and to pre- pare it in an easily digested shape for the tender stomachs of first and second year students taxes the resources of the most capable teacher Osler I would leave you with this statement by Eugene Stead: “Learning is an active process and each of us learns more when we teach than when we are taught.” Craig S. Kitchens Superfluity of lecturing causes ischial bursitis. Osler PHASE A IN TALLAHASSEE . .4 a get acquainted party for THE FIFTEEN . . . Paul,out cold on the lawn . , . Study parties . . . pushing for tests . . . all nighters ..+ Nothnagle quit? ... are you sure we're going to Gainesville? Two years ago they all had to go to Creighton... HEHLULIPI... don’t drop the ball. . . next station!. ..Bud...dogsurgery...cutdowns. . . eight hour physiology labs... . Lipner ... a graduate student fainting during a movie about the external isolation of the human radial nerve. . . Miracle fruit. . . Beidler . .. the mad, between class, bus dash to A M . an IV in a rat’s tail? ... Trottier ... peroxidase deficient macrophages ... D. C. White .. . getting stoned. . .Susie. . .canoeing. . . the PastTime. . . the Electric Eye ... bleary eyed trips to Gainesville for books, money and summer research projects ... the farewell party. PHASE A IN GAINESVILLE ... too much material too rapidly .. . the,certainty that the volume would be edited by the professors’ informed selection of impor- tant topics or by the-students’ sheer inability to process all the information . %, disappointment that the editing process would be ‘the latter intermediary metabolism .. . the janitor snoring in the back of the room ... the students following suit in the front .. . taking notes in» your lap ... next slide please ... Embden-Meyerhof... . Krebs ... pentose shunt... lipid head . . Lehninger. . . We don’t want to get into too much medicine here... neuroanatomy ... brain slabs at2 A. M..... . Bernstein’s oligodendrocyte wall paper... the cubicles. .% the Blue Screw . . . football hotshots . . . everything you didn’t want to know about vectorcardiograms ... Sawin’... antique books ... class parties. . . the great behavioural science revolt. . . 18,200 trips by the Med Center Special ... the last summer vacation. Nee ee ee A a Se ee The Anatomy Lesson Wood engraving, 14th century, France Ay ‘J AL TLS —4 } = (= Es I = - . —