Wake Forest School of Medicine - Gray Matter Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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DR. TOOLE DISCUSSES A PATIENT'S SIGNS AND SYMPTONS IN HIS MONDAY AFTER- NOON SESSION WITH THIRD YEAR STUDENTS. :5i:v?s'jQam5 i ,,,-gffffsztm' g.,wjfgQ':'f t 1., b --Huw .3 1',,.,?f'- is I 1 ' ff if ff A 2, T H E J OI N T NEUROLOGY-NEUROSURGERY , CONFERENCE, HELD ON TUESDAY AFTER- A NOON, IS OF GREAT VALUE AND INTEREST TO BOTH STUDENTS AND FACULTY. A SMALL SAMPLE OF THE MANY PAPERS DR TOOLE HAS TO HIS CREDIT 5 :R

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ED EDUC Tll0lNl JAMES F. TOOLE, B.A., M.D., L.L.B. Dr. Toole and the class of 1966 arrived at Bowman Gray in 1962. Ours was a more or less direct path whereas Dr. Toole took a more circuitous journey be- ginning at his birthplace in Atlanta, Georgia, March 22, 1925. His first major academic stop was at Prince- ton University where he received his B.A. degree in 1947. From here he went to Cornell University Medi- cal College and received his M.D. degree in 1949. He served as intern at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania during 1949-50. His next stop was Korea during 1950-51 where he served as Battle Surgeon in the U. S, Army. Following this he attended the School of Aviation Medicine at Pensacola, Florida and during 1951-53 was a Flight Surgeon in the U. S. Navy. He returned to the University of Pennsylvania in 1953 as resident in internal medicine. Following this he jour- neyed to the National Hospital in London as a Ful- bright Fellow in Neurology. He returned once again to the University of Pennsylvania and served as resi- dent in neurology during 1956-58. He remained at the University of Pennsylvania as Assistant Physician and Instructor in Neurology during 1959-60 and was ,KW j, gow made Associate in Neurology in 1961. He was certi- fied by the American Board of Internal Medicine in 1958 and by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in 1961. He is a member of 16 different societies and other professional organizations including Alpha Omega Alpha. Following this long path of academic excellence and training and service to his country Dr. Toole came to Bowman Gray as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurology. As first and second year students we saw very little of Dr. Toole, but each of us had the opportunity of spending some time on his service in the third year and during this time we be- came aware of his value to us in our medical educa- tion both through personal teaching and through con- tact with his well organized and educationally oriented department and staff. Dr. Toole has impressed us with his knowledge of medicine, his courtesy and kindness to patients, his ability to teach us and to help us teach ourselves. It is a pleasure for the class of 1966 to dedicate this book to Dr. James F. Toole, the epitome of academician, physician, teacher and friend.

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lt-lIUST0l?3Y 0? THE CLASS QD? 119665 The experience of medical school is a total one which each student undergoes in an unique manner. The recognized achievements and accomplishments of the Class of '66 along with its not as well publicized failures and disappointments, there- fore, reflect only in part that experience. Ourfirst year in medical school was marked by the faculty's effort to impart a tremendous body of knowledge in an insufficient amount of time in anticipation of changes that were outdating what was being presented. It was a task at which both faculty and students occasionally balked. ln the process of adjusting, we elected Tom Long as our president and endured seemingly interminable class meetings which, at times, served more as a means of ventilating our individual frustrations than for achieving constructive purposes. Bubba McAlhany deservedly received the Carey Award for his outstanding achievement in anatomy. Our second year was the year of myriad mimeographed instructions and Xeroxed reading material dispensed gratis by the Physiology and Pathology Departments. lf intellectual satisfaction was denied us or unattainable, it was always satisfying de- termining where we were supposed to be in Physiology. We had the dubious distinc- tion of being the first class to take the National Boards after completing the basic sciences. From the letters received by some of us later that summer, it was obvious that the Administration also felt our distinction was dubious. As second year stu- dents, we were so pleased with Darrell Thorpe's leadership as President that we un- begrudgingly gave him a bottle of bourbon when his term was completed. ln the same vein, Drs. Davidson, Schmid, and Bond, as well as the entire Pathology De- partment, were recognized for their efforts in the classroom on our behalf. The fac- ulty awarded Lin Puckett the Roche Award for his outstanding scholastic achieve- ment during the first two years. During our third year, we self-consciously moved up to the wards wearing our starched whites and fumbling with our new diagnostic instruments over patients who often were more amused than reassured by our presence. Ridding the world of dis- ease and pestilence became the drudgery of doing endless CBC's, L. E. preps, and examining stool specimens for occult blood. Often, when making a diagnosis, we mistook the pounding hoofbeats of horses for those of zebras. We elected Karl Stevenson as our president and agreed with the selection of Darrell Thorpe and Lin Puckett to A. O. A. 6