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

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pvi Year I Anatomy 20 “Now carefully dissect out this glomus tissue . . “If we have to spend another day tracing cutaneous nerves, I’ll scream!” “Joe, can I borrow your copy of Manter and Gatz tonight?”

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THE PRECLINICAL YEARS lhe first two years of medical school initially seem like a continuation of the undergraduate college years — seemingly- endless hours of lectures , labs , and exams. The first year is basically devoted to the study of the “ normal ” anatomy, physiol- ogy, and biochemistry , while the second year concentrates on the “diseased” organism, with microbiology, pathology, and pharmacology. m

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Freshman Anatomy is probably the one course which really tells you that you’re in medical school. Most entering students vividly remember that first afternoon in the dissection laboratory. They soon realize, however, that Anatomy is much more than the traditional dissection of the cadavre — that it encompasses the study of the human organism from several viewpoints. In Histology the various organ systems were studied at the microscopic and even electron-microscopic level. The newly- formed program in Neurological Sciences involved a detailed study of the nervous system — especially the freshman’s favorite: cross-sections of the brain stem. Genetics attempted to elucidate the basic mechanisms of heredity . . . the functioning of the chromosomes. Embryology “told it like it was” — from the beginning. An introduction to clinical medicine was pro- vided by the weekly sessions devoted to correlating material learned in the lecture halls and the labs with actual case material in the hospital and in the pathology labs. FRANK H. J. FIGGE, Ph.D. Head, Department of Anatomy “That’s it, get the rhythm — patty-cake, patty-