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

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ra a f h c t r A i A Marc Gallini Julius Gardin Mary Gellenbeck Roy Gettel M. Giacalone 5 A vk W5 , it . if - f' N ' 1 K a t t a ' i t 1 K 4 L 1 Eric Gutscher Elson Haas Gary Hallam Lee Haller David Harold Then classes began. Perhaps Clinical Medicine 500 was our most heralded course. We were told by someone that Clin Nled was an experiment, an act of faith of sorts in the belief that the Medical student can assume an active role in his own education from the beginning and that he will become a better physician for it. But Clin Med was soon also Biostatistics and the Accident, and perhaps then also we realized that much of our time could be better spent. Yet it was obvious to us even then that our educators are intensely dedicated to excellence and that long range improvement of our training will come only through participating mutually in curriculum changes. We can all remember the first time on the wards, confronting a patient in the role of the physician. Perhaps our feelings were mixed with a sense of pride and realization of our own ignorances and inadequacies, but the experience will always be a special one. There was also the basic sciences to con- tend with, and in something like 40470 less time than that allotted to previous classes.

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THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL lst Year Class Schedule FIRST TERM 1968 - 69 August 26 - December 10, 1968 TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY PHYSIOLOGY' PHYSIOLOGY PHYSIOLOGY Laboratory E,Med, Lecture E.Med, - Lectuzle- - - -E: Med: Ill BIOCHEMISTRY FREE TIME BIOCHEMISTRY Conference Conference BIOCHEMISTRY Lecture Med.SCi-3330 Lecture Med.Sci.3330t BIOCHEMISTRY 4' f ' ' - - - NEURAL at CLINICAL BEHAVIORAL FREE TIME Labo ator ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' SCIENCES r Y MEDICINE s. 6450 Hosp. Med.Sci. 5330 The first exams of the medical school career are a new high point of anxiety for most. Yet somehow almost everyone passes, and the class settles down to a long winter of hard work expecting to get through, but with no illusions about the difficulty of the task. By spring, with only final exams ahead as one freshman noted we have now com- pleted three quarters of the first one quarter of the beginning half of the total of our medical training-formal, that is! I In the following two articles, two students describe aspects of the freshman year at medical school. QC. -M AS IT WAS Looking back, the freshman class holds many first impressions of classes, classmates, and instructors. Those Hrst few days in August seem so far removed from today and yet seem like only yesterday. I can remember M5330 and how it is not the same room now as it was then, as I reintroduced myself to forgotten high school friends and was so impressed by all the impressive Medical stu- dents. I can recall Dean Hubbard,s speech and how we were told that Medical school is not four or five years allotted time . . . is not as a trade, but Medicine is a profession to be entered upon . , . 7

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