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

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X , . . .- f '.3:V Eh ' - ' -- xr ' -,r j--Q Tom Corbett '63 I am writing to you at this time from El Salvador, lo- cated in the heart of the tropics. It is a land of volcanoes, mountains, sunshine, coffee, and bananas. I have come here on a two-month foreign fellowship sponsored by the Lou- isiana State University Interamerican Program in Tropical Medicine with a grant from the U.S. Public Health Service. The work here is extremely interesting, I have seen cases of Chaga's disease, kwashiorkor, malnutrition, dys- entery, typhoid fever, tetanus of the newborn tfrom cutting the cord with a machetefl, malaria, chromoblastomycosis, micetoma, and many more, I am also doing some work with Chagas disease, taking field trips to collect bugs flihodnius prolixusb from the native huts in the rural areas and examining them for the causative trypanosome KT. Cruzil. Clinically, I have had much experience. For ex- ample, last Saturday night I worked in the Rosales Hospital E.R. Among other things, there were five machete slash- ings, three stabbings and a shooting! I shall spend next oi' I .-17 Nr A33 -. X week in the rural town of Ilobasco, where Ishall be the only physician in the area. The customs here are in many ways different from back home. This country is typically Latin-American. Life is more relaxed in many respects fi.e., two hours for lunchl and there is very little of the pressure one some- times feels at home. The social and night life is very diversified, there being something to offer for every pos- sible extreme in social tastes. It is very easy to let your life slip by while you live in one small corner of the world, never experiencing the thrill of living in foreign lands and experiencing new customs and thoughts. Here, every day is a new and exciting experience. So. if you have the urge to get out of that rut-look around, there are many opportunities such as this to go to exotic and stimulating places during your selective study period. I know this has been a very broadening experience for me and one that I shall always remember.

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James Simpson '63 During my selected period this summer I worked with Dr. Aaron Stern in the pediatric cardiology unit following patients through their initial evaluation, cardiac catheteriza- tion, surgery, a.nd post operative return visits to the clinic. I also did some work with the intracardiac phonocardiog- raphy. This experience not only gave me some contact with some of the diagnostic procedures, but also increased my clinical experience in the diagnosis of congenital heart disease. During my vacation I continued the work of my selected period with a fellowship from the Michigan Heart Associa- tion and also started another project with the cooperation of Professor Chichiro Kikuchi of the Nuclear Engineering Department. I built a modulating recording system capable of putting low frequency signals such as the electrocardio- gram and pressures from strain gage transducers on magnetic tape. This permits the signals to be stored for later use, transmitted over telephone lines, or even run through analyitical computers. Dave Heaps '63 During my Senior year, I was able to combine my three month Selective Study period with my vacation and spend atotal of six months on research projects sponsored by the Department of Sur- gery. This extended period of time allowed me to experience the many facets involved in research work, and in addition, to carry through on some projects from inception to completion. Rather than carrying out one or two particular phases of any given project, I found that a better understanding of the problems facing the research worker could be obtained by encountering the entire project. The work in which I was involved consisted of several projects. One of these involved the effects on survival of various methods of fluid therapies in dogs following a standardized period of hem- orrhagic shock and operative trauma. Another project was con- cerned with the development of a direct surgical technique for repair of lateral duodenal fistulae. Two other programs in which I was partially involved were the study of a radiosulfate technique for the measurement of functional extracellular fluid volume and the use of hepatic hypothermia to demonstrate the detoxifying capa- bilities of the liver. The benefits of my research experience were three in number. First, I gained first-hand insight into the various fields of investi- gation. Second, I learned to work out many of the technical problems that are encountered in the course of investigation. Third, by working in the Animal Laboratory, I was able to gain a greater amount of dexterity in the use of surgical instruments. In all, my six months of investigational work were most stimulating and educational. 127