Word: meds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into law school now? Take a deep breath; and run, don't walk, to UHS. Does someone you are close to exhibit these symptoms? Be sympathetic--pinball addiction is a disease, and addicts are sick people--but be firm. Tell them you will leave them for the pre-med down the hall if they don't seek counseling soon. But do something now--tomorrow morning may be too late...
Sources at the Med School said Richmond refused the post in January when Carter first offered...
...Robert H. Blacklow '55, associate dean of the Medical School, said last week in defense of the concentration requirement, "The philosophy of education is not all hedonistic. Education is not all pleasure." In the spring of 1974, after the current third-year class had accepted their places at the Med School, the faculty decided that students in that class would have to concentrate in one of twelve areas, ranging from Immunology to Social Medicine and Medical Humanities...
...class of '78 became aware of the requirement during the summer before they matriculated. But the concentration requirement applied to clinical training--the last two years of their time at the Med School. The class spent its first two years at the school studying the basic medical sciences, and some of its members spent time discussing with faculty the eventual form the concentration requirements might take. The specifics had not been included in the faculty's spring 1974 resolution...
...statement of what the requirement entails, not an explanation of why it should exist. Faculty members offer little more explanation than the booklet--they only add vague notions that by concentrating students will "come to grips with fundamentals." Faculty members insist they do not intend the requirement to get Med students into specialties early, although it may certainly have that effect. The faculty's real motivation seems to be suggested by Associate Dean Blacklow: they think students would just enjoy their education too much without the requirement. And now that they are aligned squarely behind the concentration requirement, they hardly...