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

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Maurice C. Pincoffs, M.D. A Chicagoan by birth. Dr. Pincoffs graduated with a B.S. from the University of Chicago in 1909. Journeying to Baltimore, he graduated from the Johns Hopkins Medical College in 1912. Up to the first World War, young Dr. Pincoffs practiced medicine in his chosen city. Baltimore. When the United States entered the conflict in 1917, he volunteered for active duty, winning the D.S.C. and Croix De Guerre. He returned to Baltimore after the conflict to resume his prac- tice and engage in medical research. Shortly thereafter, in 1921. Maurice Pincoffs was made Professor of Medicine at the University of Mary- land Medical School. At the death of Dr. Gordon Wilson in 1932. he became head of the depart- ment of Medicine. Once again in World War II, when his countrv called, he enlisted and was elevated to the rank of Brigadier General. He is editor of the Annals of Internal Medicine and Assistant to the President of the University as regards the Medical School. He has been the civilian advisor to the Secretary of War, Chair- man of the Commission for Medical Care in the State of Maryland. President of the American College of Physicians, and President of the Mary- land Medical Chirurgical Faculty. He is now a council member of the Board on Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases of the Federal Security Agency. National Institute of Health in Wash- ington.

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Dr. H. Boyd Wylie Dfan oj the School oj Medicine I he Dean has played a leading role in guiding 11 ihriiMgh our cars of medical school. He is llie person who has linked the ludrMl ImkIn and ifir farult and adniinistraliun and made thetn fnM tion moothlv. UNIVCRSITV or MARYLAND THE FUnmE CF THE CUSS Of 195li As each cl«3s Is graduated uios« wtio h«vr guidtd Ui« rrcsrric ul ' its weUrs try lo lock «lth U)«« Into th«lr futto-cs. Thosi IcAchtrg who «r« interested In lh«lr students «r« clerc to thcLr succt acs «nd their problem, a ooh ta«eher senses Uvat sou- thine ' e°n out of his liXe when each eUss leovts hlB «t crtdutlon. He wonders irtietner ne has left sonettilne undone and hopes th«t his Instruction will bear fruit. It has been the writer ' s ejiprrlence that a r teachers have done a good ,1ob of Instruction which becotses unlfpst to the jraduale Jloly, at first, throi h the early haie of the inUm hip» tut Rort nearly as he advances In his oedical career. It is iry sincere wish that each nesber of the 19Su Class has so availed hiiwrlf of his opportunities at school that he will also att-))n recopfijtson unri success a: a Maryland irraduate. Miss Loretta Conway Secretary to the Dean ... to her the Editorial Staff gives thanks for an ever helping hand.

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During the past few years there lia occurred at the University of Maryland School of Medi- cine an important shift in the relative emphasis of the various parts of the teaching program of the student ' s last two years — the sd-ialled clini- cal years. At last, instead of sitting for hours listening to lecture after lecture, the student spends the greater part of his day on the hospital wards and in the out-patient dispensary. Now, through the extensive facilities of the University Hospital, the student has been given the oppor- tunity to apply what he has struggled so hard to learn. W ith the close co-operation of the I ' niver- sity Hospital administration, resident staff, and visiting physicians, his clinical vears are truly spent in seeing patients, both ambulatory and bedridden. He must deal with patients and their idiosyncrasies, diseases in their rarely typical appearance, hospital routine with all its many facets aimed at better care. hat is it that makes the fund ling student become the self-assured physician secure in the knowletlge that he has received the best that medical education has to offer? Is it the understanding house staff stand- ing behind the student with a fricndK M r(l of encouragement? Could it be the full-time Uni- ersit staff with their pearls of wisdom ? The visiting men with their broad practical knowl- edge of disease? The wide variet of ])atient material available at the I iiixersitv Hcjspital? Nurses anxious to help in the everyday problems of care? Personal contact w ith patients and their troubles? To give a complete answer to that most significant of all questions would require a long dissertation on all the various ramifications of the education which we have been so fortu- nate to receive at the University of Maryland. But it is possible to summarize that answer in a very few words — an excellent hospital and its staff.