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

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What me worry, I know I ' ll match somewhere. Meet Arlie ' s boy, Tom Divilio New Mexico gets Maryland ' s Front Lobe syndrome. Thanks for all the help you ' ve been and the inter- est you ' ve demonstrated for the last four years Dr Maryland? I didn ' t even apply to Maryland. f v ' C if rv m I ' v i mm v 1 »■ ' j r iuK

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MATCH March 5, 1975 Wake up Frank, the lecture is over Wow! Your mission Tom is to spend three more years in Baltimore. “Yes Scott, all the nurses at Grady love beards. It ' s great that Woody loves us That bastard got my place! Why are these people smiling? Kl 1 ! --. 1 I I I ff •

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Student Life in the Early 1800 ' s An anatomy class about 19UU. Wherever he came from, the future medical student probably graduated from an academy. Possibly he had shocked his parents by stating his desire to become a physician because the profession promised neither glamour nor pres- tige nor high income. Most men thought of med- icine in terms of filth, pain and charlatanism. One father was quoted as saying to his son after learning of his ambition, My son, I must con- fess. I am disappointed in you. I cannot control you — but it is a profession for which I have the most contempt. Beyond the academy, the next step toward becoming a medical student was apprenticeship with an established physician. The apprentice arrived at the doctor ' s house early in the morn- ing. He swept the floor, built fires, and probably milked the cows. During the day he pounded powders, washed bottles and rolled pills. He followed the doctor on rounds watching him and handing him instruments. At lunch he questioned the physician. In his spare time, he repeatedly pored over the medical books which his master owned. As the boy ' s knowledge grew, he increasingly took a hand in the practice. At the University professors were concerned that it was impossible to spell out rules for admission. The faculty required students, in theory, to have gradu- ated from an academy and to have completed their two year apprenticeship. Fired with anticipation, the medical students arrived at the University in early October. For many the occasion was the first visit to a big city, and for almost all it was their first admission to the strange sights and smells behind the Universi- ty ' s walls. Many saw a skeleton for the first time and first heard the sounds of patients undergoing opera- tions without anesthesia. How wonderful, wrote one student in his freshman notebook, I am not now bending over the pescle [sic] and the morter [sic] in the Country but am travercing [sic] over the fare [sic] field of science. Another drew a striding skeleton with horns and tail and captioned it, I ' m off! Lecture tickets A student at Harvard summed up what he felt; There is something very solemn and depressing about the entrance upon the study of medicine. When I first entered the room where the medical students were seated at a table with a skeleton hanging over it, I was deeply impressed and more disposed to moralize upon morality than to take up the study of osteology which lay before me. The white faces of the sick that fill the hospi- tal wards saddened me and the dreadful scenes in the operating theater were a shock to my sen- sibilities. The student ' s major expense was his lecture tickets. The student arrived and after finding a room, went to the college to sign up for classes. First he found the dean to pay the martriculation fee. In those days the dean was merely one of the professors, and besides collecting the fee had no more prestige than any of the other professors. The lecture tickets cost $20 and admitted the stu- dent to his lectures or laboratory sessions.