Word: internship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seemed only natural for Laragh himself to go into medicine. After Cornell University and Cornell University Medical College, he moved to Presbyterian Hospital for his internship. There he came under the tutelage of Dr. Robert Loeb, a great physician who co-edited what has since become one of medicine's standard texts: Cecil & Loeb's Textbook of Medicine. The association was a fortunate one for Laragh. "Loeb was a despot, but a benevolent one," Laragh recalls. "He was fair but demanding, and his standards were the highest." Loeb was also a first-rate teacher who did not believe...
After his internship, Laragh combined research with clinical practice " ("You learn more from patients than you do from samples in a laboratory"). As a cardiologist, he concentrated most of his efforts on the workings-and failings-of the heart. But he also looked elsewhere in the circulatory system, and in 1955 he made an important discovery: he learned that increases in the blood levels of potassium can stimulate the production of aldosterone, an adrenal hormone that raises blood pressure by causing the kidneys to retain salt...
Edelin came to BCH after an internship in Dayton, Ohio, in an air force hospital. He said that he grew to like obstetrics and gynecology while in Dayton...
...Democrat and Republican groups are precisely what their names attest to--clubs. Rather than engage in actual campaigns on behalf of particular issues or candidates, the groups provide activities according to the interests of members. The major program of the Democrats, for instance, is their legislative internship service which arranges for students to work with Massachusetts state legislators. Officers of the organization acknowledge that many students join the club to participate in the program, which last year found positions for 45 students...
...Harvard Ph.D. in political science, Swearer taught at U.C.L.A., was voted most popular teacher one year by political science majors. Lured to the Ford Foundation, he handled European and international programs, particularly in Iron Curtain countries, before going to Carleton in 1970. Recently he set up a well-received internship program there that allows students to try out jobs while still enrolled in school...