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

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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'

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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

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many sophomores would disagree with this ligurej, Clinical correlations are dramati- cally increased, via the new vertical-core type courses in Clinical Medicine and Neural and Behavioral Sciences. The Class of 1971 actually saw patients as freshman. Yet as might be expected the sophomore year still has its share of rough edges. The curriculum was changed, but much of the system remains, with new names substituted for old. But what is really different is the response of the sophomore class. Rather than grumbling futilely and then enduring it, or simply disappearing, the class has set about doing something about it, and in doing so have created for counselors a dis- tinctive image. The following excerpts from the pages of the Paeon best tell the story: ii, , t -SEV-I' 1-' - l 5' -S,:wf1Y:if::.,!ffiffww, 5-'Q ' up ,r,i,..i,yu by N gf? at y liie ' ','f i, .f.h..- t Att.t - 1 l f, f Ellen Hinterman i'i , - ' sy ff? 1 Richard Herzog I james Hiveley Robert Hildreth as M ev jeffrey Herman