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

Page 108 text:

In 3- , Ku sd Philip Dennis Dale Derick Ronald Dirkse A . 3. Richard Dryer Lawrence Duke Emest Dunn Q' John Drlik le Steven Eisinger 6 5 Rl lil I livoltages of various Clostridia?D Patients were near-mythical beings, except in a course in Physical Diagnosis, which more often than not was an unguided experience in inept fumbling. And what of the seat in the front row of the stalls of human drama that medicine is supposed to occupy? Where was the joy, the anguish, the hope, courage, challenge, and failures, the heart, soul, and spirit of medicine? If any of these existed, sophomore students were accorded no glimpse of them, being presented instead with the dead body of medicine, life crushed from it. No wonder that the involvement of many students was at a minimum level--and the profession continued to worry about the long-term decline in applications to medical school. But for the sophomore class of 1968-9, this was a different year. In fact, as the first to traverse the new curriculum the Class of '71 is always having a different year. To the unending envy of their predecessors, they have no more than 32 class hours week- ly, with two half-days free, and no Satur- days. Courses have been reduced in number to four. Increasing selectivity seems to have been introduced, with a heralded H4076 decrease in basic science material Caltho

Page 107 text:

.s-f nil Richard Chesley Richard Cohen ff Frederic Collins Lawrence Corey Sophornores, '68-'69 The sophomore year at Michigan has traditionally been the year of the grindw made up of unrelieved bookwork for some nine or ten separate courses, with only the thought of the clinical years ahead to provide inspiration. Seniors remember for more realistically, avoid rememberingj 40- plus hours of classes per week, including of course Saturday mornings. Education seemed to be measured, like a prison sen- tence, in terms of time served. We were sure that Sundays would be used for classes even- tually with the ever-occuring, much overdis- cussed 'fincrease in medical knowledge. And worse, this knowledge was just thrown at students in wholesale lots, with seemingly no selectivity. Trivia was frequently accorded as much time as material of impor- tance. Of course clinical correlations were exceedingly rare-every once in a while an instructor would point out that his subject might be relevant to the practice of medi- cine. But not often, we frequently had the feeling that the subject might equally well be entirely unrelated. CRemember the infa- mous Microbiology exam featuring the mil- Howard Deitsch V4 wh J-Ji: .Ji- 'x joel DeKoning Milan Demeter

Page 109 text:

W, I FIRST ROW-Henry Swain, Edward Domino, Maurice H. Seevers CChairmanJ, Edward Carr,jr., Benedict Lucchesig SECOND ROW-Fumio Ikomi, Takeo Fukuda, Teresa Erill, Thomas Tephly, Hiroshi Kawamula, Marcus Gomez, Albert Listong THIRD ROW-Raymond W. Ruddon, Izura Matsuoka, Tetsuo Oka, Leigh- ton Whitsitt, Ian MacLeod, Pedreanez Carruyo, Sergio Erill, Walter Baird. ' Pharmacology A Robert Fisher Ronald Franks ,, . ,K K , . 1 1 Q., 3 fill - 4. ',? and iv 'CI ,ska james Freier john Freitas Richard Gaston ff'