University of Maryland School of Medicine - Terrae Mariae Medicus (Baltimore, MD)

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M.piil, piece. l)li)tleil. Al sdriictiriic liiriiij; the ear several lucky students were hasal and cduld iefiiliniately do what all had wanted to do — jio up and jio to sleep after the ele en ochxk class. Thus our partner learnrd to take a liMH tracing. One feature enj(i e(l i) rnan was the student seminars. Tlie class was hroken down into small groups anil ' acli ue ' k one uould present reports gleaned from llie literature and lead a discussion on some previonsK selected topic. The lessons learned were nKin . DucrKK II ( oNKAi) Smith, 1 11. D.. I ' rojessor oj Physi- ology and Assistant Director oj Postfiradiiatc (.oiiiinillee. Above — Tell me when ou see the little red dot. Lejt — Tiselius apparatus, and attractive scenery. 25

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WILLIAM K. AMBERSON. PH.D. Professor oj Physiology and Head oj the Deparlrneiit. He came to Maryland in 19.37 after acquiring his Ph.B. from Lafayette Liniversitv. and his Ph.D. from Princeton. He is very active in research, especially neurophysiology and has studied in Europe on several occasions. lab which allowed us to carry out our experi- ments with a degree of individuality. We worked with frogs, turtles, cats and dogs and in this maimer were vividly impressed by facts about the functioning of the body which before were somewhat nebulous. Here by doing and observ- Positioii is everything in life. ing and correlating we learned. Experimental methods and procedures as applied to animals were conducted by us for our own edification. Diagnostic machines and procedures were also introduced to us. We took ECG and EEG trac- ings of each other under varying conditions. Later we tested our air and bone conduction by the use of the audiometer, and visual fields were Ta.sty morsel. 24

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PSYCHIATRY JACOB E. FINESINGER. B.A., M.A., M.D.. Professor oj Psychkitry and Head oj the Department. He has been at Maryland since 1950 after gradu- ating from Johns Hopkins and doing post-graduate work at Harvard. He has been instrumental in the expansion of the psychiatry program at Maryland which has resulted in the building of the new Psvchiatric Institute. The Department of Psychiatry has been func- tioning at the School of Medicine for the past 25 years, but it was not until January. 1950, when Dr. Jacob E. Finesinger was appointed that it had its first full-time professor. Dr. Ross McFu Chapman, a past director of Shepard Pratt Hos- pital, was the first Professor of Psychiatry, serv- ing from 1923 to 1948. When Dr. Finesinger arrived in 1950 and in- troduced us to our course he posed the question How do you feel about that? With this and similar questions rolling around in our brains we were forced to conclude that certain events had occurred. We decided that we could answer the question without having much idea of what we were answering and secondly, that this was not going to be a series of didactic lectures. When at last he told us that we were adults and Well, what do you think about that? 26