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

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Upper rifihl — Where ' s the Coke machine? Middle riphl — And did your grandfather ever l)eat your grandmother? would i)e treated as; such our worst fears were confirmed. This was a new attitude toward edu- cation and one which was met with mixed emo- tions. By the end of the first year we realized that there was much to be learned from Dr. Finesing- er ' s general discussion periods and seminars. We continued to cultivate our interview tech- nique in the sophomore year and also received fiidactic material. Our junior year saw increased activity on our part. We journeyed to Shepard Pratt and Spring Grove Hospitals, received a good short course in psychoses from Ur. Tuerk. and spent several sessions interview in patients and discussing diagnosis. in our senior year we spent one whole imumIIi on psychiatry and were quite pleased to be the first senior class to go through our tour of duty in the new l ' s chiatric Institute. AUIioukIi not Loner rifihl — How would ou handle this child who eats dirt? Lower lejl — Psychiatry exam c iming up. fellows? -21

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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

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The candid camera through the one-way mirror. Welcome stretch between talking sessions. full) equipped, this building is certainly the finest of its kind in the East. With equal emphasis upon research and teaching facilities, it shows the fruits of good planning and active sup|)ort. Dr. Finesinger and Dr. Greenhill and the other me mbers of this department have a big job ahead of them, but from our brief but lasting associa- tion with them we have the feeling that they will do much to make the University of Maryland. School of Medicine, renowned in the psychiatric field in the future. i Waiting for the usual didactic lecture. 28