Word: meds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week in Palo Alto, amid the pomp of an academic convocation, President J. E. Wallace Sterling dedicated Stanford's handsome new $21 million medical center (complete with 434-bed hospital), designed by Manhattan Architect Edward D. Stone (TIME, March 31, 1958). For the university's med students, who can now fulfill their degree requirements without commuting to another campus, the center is an unqualified blessing. But in San Francisco medical circles, the center is an object of much discussion and no little concern...
...argument is Stanford's new dean of the School of Medicine, Pediatrician Robert Alway, 54, a hard-driving administrator whose passionate interest is to improve his school. He is also a man of tough, direct methods. When he was chosen as dean last year, med-school department heads submitted their resignations as a matter of course. Customarily, the new dean refuses. Not Alway...
...Western Reserve University (TIME, July 2, 1956), the Stanford curriculum has been completely rebuilt to "humanize" the doctor by spreading his studies over five years instead of four, teaching him more about the patient as a whole and less about medical specialties, at least at the start. Med-school freshmen will begin with wide-ranging courses that relate basic medical disciplines. And as the students advance toward their doctorates, the proliferation of specialized courses will be cut down, allowing them to spend about one-fourth of their time in the sciences, humanities and other fields allied to their major study...
...Harvard was a considerably less genteel spot than the College rules would lead one to expect. For amusement, almost every undergraduate joined a club, and these existed often only for bacchanalian orgies. The best remembered organization of the period was the "Med. Fac.," which Quincy unsuccessfully tried to suppress in 1834. Secret meetings of the Med. Fac. were highlighted by libations from a silver chamber-pot or by hazing of unknowing freshmen; the administration railed against the breeches of discipline this body created, but did not suppress it until this century...
...decision to combine the two Departments followed two years of study by a committee at the Med. School. The committee's report included a plan to reorganize both the departmental structure and the school's teaching programs...