Word: interneships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that hard climb the grubbiest period is the year or two after medical school when the graduate doctor is fulfilling his interneship requirements. In most of the 697 good U. S. hospitals, the interne gets an opportunity to ride the ambulance to emergency cases, to practice medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics and x-ray technique on ward and clinic cases. Experienced practitioners hover over him all the time, show him how to do this & that. In time he may get opportunity to suture the peritoneum after the appendectomist or the laparotomist gets through his work. But real experience in surgery...
...want better educational programs in the hospitals. We want salaries. We want the security of insurance. In lieu of salaries, we're always told of the educational advantages in hospital interneship, but these aren't provided. Even the hospital libraries are often inadequate. As to insurance, if we lose an eye in the course of our duty, or our life, there's no compensation. There have been actual cases where an ambulance driver and an ambulance doctor were killed answering calls. The driver's family can collect compensation. The doctor is not covered. . . . We have no protection, alive or dead...
...Johns Hopkins Hospital. When Dr. Lewis, 57, was a Kewanee, Ill boy his great ambition was to be a professional ball player. He became a proficient pitcher. While he studied medicine at Rush Medical College he spent almost every free afternoon at ball games. The great pleasure of his interneship was the free passes which he received for tending the minor injuries of Chicago players...
...entering classes (freshman and junior). While New College students are busy taking academic courses and learning to teach, students from Teachers College will observe and try a hand at teaching them. Later, New College students will try their hands at teaching, spend a year's interneship in a public or private school before being given a B.S. degree...
...Swick, 27, finished his interneship at Mount Sinai three years ago. He is a tall, muscular young man, with a ruddy complexion, bushy reddish brown hair, blue-grey eyes. He was studious, willing to work nights on an Arbeit (research problem). Dr. Emanuel Libman, always eager to help talent, gave young Dr. Swick funds to study urology in Germany...