University of Michigan Medical and Nursing School - Aequanimitas Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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Allen County Public Lihdfy 900 Webster Streel PO Box 2270 Fort Wayne, IN 46801-2270

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-1- -,wt -.- . 252 East Lovell Street KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN BRONSON METHODIST HOSPITAL, Kalamazoo, Michigan, is a 3 12 bed, fully accredited, general hospital which renders care to ap- proximately 12,500 in-patients each year and annually has over 13,500 visits to its out-patient clinics and emergency unit. It has an active medical staff of 1 10 members of which over 50W are certified by the American Specialty Boards. KALAMAZOO has a population of 82,000 persons. In addition to being a recreational center, its three colleges, symphony orchestra, art center, and civic theater offer outstanding cultural advantages. INTERNSHIPS: Eight rotating internships are offered each year with a stipend of S350 per month, two weeks paid vacation, meals, uniforms and laundry, a furnished apartment, hospitalization and malpractice insurance. RESIDENCIES: Nine residency appointments are offered each year, three in internal medicine, five in general surgery, and one in pediatrics. A 24 month program is also available for those interested in general practice. OUT-PATIENT CLINICS: Orthopedic, Well Baby, Rheumatic Fever and Congenital Heart, Obstetrical, Cerebral Palsy, General Surgery, and Emergency Room Follow-Up. TEACHING PROGRAM: Under the supervision of a full time Director of Medical Education, the program is affiliated with the University of Michigan Medical School. Teaching conferences in- clude bedside rounds on each service, clinical pathological confer- ences, surgical pathological conferences, journal clubs, staff clinical service meetings, and special seminars. During the academic year, members of the University of Michigan Medical Faculty visit the hospital for teaching rounds, seminars and lectures. 244 r BRONSON METHODIST S c -eng, HOSPITAL

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X The student enters medical school already in possession of a major element in the practice of medicine. Indeed, he may have the most signifi- cant item in the physician's armamentarium. That to which I refer is the somewhat intangible quality known as the art of medicine. For medicine is very much an art-the physician an artist. It is suggested today that this is less necessary or even less desirable that in previous eras. Upon initial consideration, this may appear to be the case. Technologie advance in medicine is more rapid than any previous time in history. This applies to all other sphere of human endeaver as well. How- ever, just as certainly as this is true, it is also apparent that men's moral and ethical progress lagged behind. A similar series of events may have transpired in medicine. We are everywhere presented with the charge that the physician no longer cares for the patient. This as a direct result of our over mechanized, under personalized approach to modern day clinical problems. r,..:,.. 4 . .5 3' 1. It is true that the physician of today needs more than a Bible, a Gray's Anatomy and a goodly selection of herbs to properly treat the problems he faces. However, like his technologically ill- equipped ancestors, he too must make good use of his personal resources. The medical school provides the science of medi- cine in all its varied forms. It can offer the art only by example-a poor substitute at best. One does not learn to compose like Bach or paint like Leonardo by merely watching. Great artists are born as are great physicians. Each physician deals with his patients and his work in a unique manner. This is a result of his own artistic temperament. It is this which is ex- pressed through the exercise of methods and appli- cation of principles which he received in training. The medical student is taught the science of medi- cine - the art of medicine he himself must provide. Robert E. Welke f63