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

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Preclinical Years % III f»i J, N. m: IS ■ ! ' ' i

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The Student Union I ' lie I.lhiciiy 16

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Fro« roil . Schaulcle, Edgar, Barker. Cohen, I ' aiicrson. higclniaii. l )roton, McCormick. Klatsky. Satou, Weglicki. Kopilnic ' k, Barrick. Sccoiul row: Franklin, Harris, Zampiello, Linherg, Gaither, Traiim. Broughton, Feuerman, Love, Piillen, Tuttle, Steinwald, Updike, Bonovich, Sophocleiis. T iird rosw Hawkins, Heinritz, Anderson, klimes, Rupke. Lachman. Barr. Bokat, Lanphear, Closson, Buchman. Fratto, Bradley, Childs, Kilchenstein, Goldstein, Schmieler. Thi.s i.s the beginning for us. One hun- dred men and women assemble in the balmy Baltimore September. They want to become doctors, and they present them.selves to tho.se who have preceded them here — those already doctors who will teach them to become physicians. In four years the majority of this hundred will go away. In a certain sense they will have walked into, through, and out of the pages of this book; for, poor product though it is. this book and its other edi- tions will he the single record of their group, a rctlcction of the personality of the Medical School for one year. Becoming a doctor is like no other experience in the world, and we want to make the few pages of this hook a Ictlci to those most interested in us — our families and friends, who so often learn .so little from us of our part in this experi- ence. We want to show you some of what we do in our brief time here — the books we open, the instruments we begin to use. the sick people we meet, the tissues and diseases we study; and the places we pass through, the classrooms, the laboratories, the clinics, the wards, the operating rooms; and our seniors in medicine who teach, guide, mould, drive, enlighten, in- spire and aggravate us. We want to tell you, and remind ourselves, of the con- trasts, the new and the antiquated, the exciting and the dreary, the immaculate and the grimv, the instantaneous and the interminable, the diiinilicd and the liidi- 18