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

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Davidge Hall 28

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Frank C. Bressler Research Building 27

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H. Boyd Wylie, m.d. Edward Uhlenhuth, PH.D. 142nd General Hospital under the com- mand of Dr. Monte Edwards. In late May of 1942, the 42nd sailed for Australia where they were to remain for the duration of the war. Dr. Pincoffs was promoted to colonel and later to brigadier general and made chief of professional services for the southwest Pacific area. The 42nd came under the command of Col. George Yeager with Lt. Col. Henry Ullrich succeeding him as chief surgeon. Back in Baltimore, the school was under- going radical changes. By the Fall of 1942, army and navy student programs were in force and almost all students were in uni- forms. The government assumed all ex- penses of tuition, books, and instruments and the students were paid $75 per month. Enrollment at first was maintained at pre- war levels with the same requirements for matriculation, but as the war progressed, students were accepted after only fifteen months of college. The medical curriculum was accelerated, with the school year com- prising eleven months and total course com- pleted in a little over two years. Gradua- tions were held several times a year. In 1943, Gen. Robert Patterson, former dean of University of Oklahoma School of Medi- cine was appointed dean of the medical school. The military influence was manifested on Saturdays, when the army students would form ranks on the sidewalk at Lombard and Greene Streets. Their commandant, a colonel, would then march them to Carroll Park for close order drill. The students lived at home or in lodgings of their own choice but were forbidden to enter establishments designated by the military as off limits . The faculty of the medical school had been greatly diminished, especially in the clinical subjects. The undermanned hos- pital staff worked at a killing pace, with 29