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

Page 33 text:

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

Page 32 text:

Davidge Hall 28

Page 34 text:

students serving as internes and junior resi- dents performing major surgical proce- dures. With the end of the war, conditions re- verted slowly to normal. Gen. Patterson resigned and Dr. Wylie was again named acting dean, a position he was to hold until 1948, at which time he was confirmed in office as the 28th dean of the medical school. In 1947, state aid to the school and hos- pital was increased from 15% to 50%. Post-war planning envisioned a major growth in the physical plant. To accompany this growth, sweeping changes in curricu- lum and faculty were to follow. In 1948, Dr. Eduard Uhlenhuth became Professor of Anatomy. The same year. Dr. Shipley retired as head of surgery. In 1949 Dr. J. Edmund Bradley was named Profes- sor of Pediatrics and Dr. Jacob E. Fine- singer, Professor of Psychiatry. These divi- sions for the first time became entities dis- tinct from the Department of Medicine. 1949 saw the institution of the block sys- Conslruction of the Psychiatric Institute, 1951. 30