University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Mayo Foundation The University’s link with the Mayo facilities at Rochester has availed the Minnesota graduate program in medicine of added opportunities for study. New clinics, projects and services also have enabled researchers to combine treatment and service with research and study. The Mayo Foundation was established on a grant from Doctors Will and Charles Mayo, who believed strongly that their facilities combined with those of the University could only result in better care for the patient. Approximately 535 graduates of the medical school were registered in the Mayo Foundation program as of Winter, 1959. I lere the students received intensive training in various specialties rhey wish to pursue. Part of a typical student’s daily routine includes record checking with the nurse on duty, taking blood tests, observing operations and conferring with patients. The comradeship and discussion with fellow students who have similar interests contributes much to the knowledge acquired by the student, specially when he makes tentative diagnoses of the causes he is studying. As with all graduate students, medical students at the Mayo Foundation find themselves more closely approximating their future work than they did as undergraduates. 10

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Variety Club Heart Hospital The Variety Club I Iearr I lospital is equipped with 7X beds, 40 for children and 3X for adults. The first floor contains the Out-Patient Clinics, an X-ray department, an Flcctrocardiograph section. Occupational Therapy department, I Iearr Catheterization laboratories and a library, maintained and serviced by the Variety Club Auxiliary. Adult patient beds arc on second floor while the third floor is exclusively pediatric beds. The third floor also features a sun deck, a play room and a fully equipped theater offering movies every Friday afternoon and evening. The fourth floor is devoted entirely to research laboratories housing research facilities for the departments of Surgery, Medicine and Pediatrics. The newest addition, the Arthur V. Anderson floor, dedicated Jan. 11959 provided sorely needed space for the research facilities that very rapidly outgrew their fourth floor limitations. More than seventy per cent of the patients of the Variety Club I leart I lospital are from the state of .Minnesota. With few exceptions, every state in the Union has been represented as well as many foreign countries. The heart surgery itself is performed in the central operating rooms in the Mayo Memorial building of the University I Iospirals. 11