University Medical College - Scalpel Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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First-The high standard that our college has always maintained has giV911 US an excellent quality of young men for students. Second-Each student becomes so thor- oughly imbued with the enthusiasm and college spirit, which has alway-s been a promi- nent feature in U. M. C., that life presents an entirely different and more beautiful pic- ture to him. Third-The fathers of the University Medical College realized early in the career of the institution that one of the most important adjuncts to a medical education was a thorough clinical training. It has worked out so well that it has been improved 'der that from 3,500 to 4,000 pa- from year to year. Is it not remarkable when we consi ' l ' ' f the Senior and Junior classes annually, exhibiting tients come under the observation o cel found in each man's frequently conditions and diseases so rare that they are scar y ' f' ' tl under an able instructor that he will lifetime, yet impressing the student suf icien y d'l recognize it if he sees it again. rea 1y g In our out door clinic it is the usual plan to assign three stu-dents to each depart- ment, where under the instruction of a professor they are obliged to examine, diagnose and treat the case, this gives them more experience in a systematic manner than they would receive in many years of private office practice. The Obstetrical department has quarters in the college troom, beds and tele- ' t ' lls for phonej, where three students are constantly on hand day and night to answer ca this purpose. Each student must be in attendance at five confineinents before he be- comes eligible for graduation. This department is also in charge of the Florence Crit- tenden Home, the only charitable lying-in in-stitution in our city. The surgical out door clinic cares for about eight min-or surgical cases daily in the college and on 'Wednesday general surgical clinic is held in the amphitheater where from one to four major operations are performed, In the medical clinic from twelve to fifteen cases are treated daily. Thi-s depart- ment has two general clinics each week in o , diseases are treated on an average, fifteen ne of the college amph-itheaters. In the department of Genito Urinary patients daily the year aroun The Gynecoloffical clinic treats from eight to fifteen patient daily and has one tn Gynecological surgical clinic weekly, where from one to three major operations are per- d, with one general Genito Urinary Surgery clinic weekly. formed. ln the Clinical department for nose and throat diseases, eight to ten cases are treated daily with one clinic each week held in the surgical amphitheater, giving the students ample information of the surgical technic in this branch. The Eye and Ear Clinic, always a large one, cares for from fifteen to twenty patients daily, with one busy clinic weekly ini the surgical amphitheater. From six to eight poor little unfortunates are treated each day in the Children's clinic. Much attention is given in this department to deformities and errors of diet: children are furnished with braces and other apparatus and various foods. They also have one general clinic each week. ' The Skin Clinic takes care of from five to eight cases daily and has one general -clinic each week. v Besides this there are held in the Kansas City General Hospital three clinics Weekly, G. 35. General Surgery, Neurological and Medical. Instead Of 'Slighting his department each clinician is eager and strives to make his own cl' ' ' - . d I 1n1c the most interesting, hence, one can see that it furnishes to anyone who 951195 H Splendid post graduate course.

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A 'iirirf livzumv nf 1112 Glnllrgv Gllinir BY GEO. B. NORBERG, PROF. DISEASES OF WOMEN AND CLINICAL GYNECOLOGY. T has occuiied to me many times as iather singular that a U M C O1 iduate Wher I ever found is a Htopnotcherng he not only does Well financially, but he is respect- ed and honored by both the piofession and laity in his community. I have met them and heard of them far and near and this is so universally the case that I have searched for some logical reason Why it is true. I believe there are three factors that bring about this ultimate perfection in our graduates. THE DISPENSARY.

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mug a Hhgairian Shnnlh IGP illlnral BY JOHN PUNTON, M. D., Professor Nervous and Mental Diseases, University Medical College. The subject Why a Physician Should Be Moral,', is one fraught with serious im- port to every medical practitioner. Viewed from any standpoint the physician cannot fail to recognize if not acknowledge his moral needs and obligations both to himself and his clientele. Indeed, so necessary and fundamental to the best life and character of the physician are the virtues of morality that these should not only form the basic principles, but constitute the very foundation upon which his practice and conduct is reared. e 4 Even f'Hippocrates the Father of Medicine in his early day recognized this neces- sity for physicians, hence the Hippocratic Oath is based upon moral probity. While the ancient custom of requiring this to be read and approved by every recent graduate in medicine is now seldom administered, yet who can deny that its essential moral prin- ciples are as worthy of observance today as they ever were in the practice of medicine. To the aspiring mind, however, of the modern recent medical graduate, life ordinarily presents a beautiful panorama of hopeful possibilities which conforms to his ideal or conception of what is best in life for him. Every physician therefore, whether he is conscious of it or not has an ideal, base or lofty which moulds his professional life and character and thus shapes his destiny. Indeed, every man associates his life with some end or ends, the attainment of which seem to him most desirable. All important, however, for the physician is the choice of this primal ideal or that which he in his inmost heart loves and strives to attain, for this largely determines what he is to become as a medical man. Standing thus upon the threshold of his professional career, the young physician in his restless desire to succeed becomes enthused with the power and influence of fame, pleasure, position and wealth, all of which may appeal to him with such an irre- sistible claim, or clad in forms so beautiful and attractive that at a time of life when his experience is very limited, his faith untried and his opinions exceedingly vacillating as to their relative value it is easy for him to mistake these allurements for the best things in life. The full possession, however, of all of these agents have so often disappointed the liopes blasted, the possibilities that such factors prove to be serious obstacles of failure to any physician. Hence, in spite of their intrinsic value they utterly fail in themselves to furnish the highest and truest elements of success to the medical practitioner. More- -over, the future of the young physician even when favored with such powerful acquisi tions or illumined with the brightest hopes and most flattering prospects ever attend 7 ed in its incipiency with more or less misgiving and uncertainty. Hence, the question which has been asked all through the ages by the recent graduate of medicine and never 'tAm I to be a success or a failure? ls fraught with se- more earnestly than today, viz.: rious import. In discussing thi-s question in a recent address a prominent internist claims that for success in the practice of medicine four factors are absolutely essential, viz.: First, appropriate preparation in medical technical studies, second, power to recognize and