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Page 6 Duke Hospital, InterCom Employee of llie Month MRS. LILLY ROBIUNS, a mem- bor of iN'iirsiiif' Service assi"iied as a ward helper in the Ob-Gyn (’liiiie, has received tlie outstanding eniph)yee award this month. Mrs. Kobl)ins has been eniph>yed at Duke Hospital since January 10, 1951. Her Super visors state that Mrs. Robbins per forms her work in an excellent man ner. She is alert, always neat in ap pearance and has a pleasant i)erson- ality. Her loyalty, efficiency and ability to maintain good working rela tions with others make her a really outstanding employee. Our congratulations to ]\Irs. Lilly Robbins. From the Auxiliary ((Continued from page 5) Course. It began January 31 to run for seven weeks on Wednesdays from 2 to 4 :80 P.il. This marvelous course is pre])ared with the help of Miss Lelia ('lark, and is an eye-opening jieep “ back-stage. ” Best advice to participants: “Take along pa])er and pencil—you won’t be able to remem ber a tenth of all you’ll learn other wise!” Wanted: 300 M.D.s (Continued from page 1) agnosis comes to the rescue. Sport ing iiis “little black bag” of instru ments, he learns the art of taking a ccmi)lete hi.story and doing a com plete i)hysical examiimtion. During this sophomore year course a student “works up” approximately 20 pa tients and goes over each patient with a member of the medical staff. This course is an important one in that it attempts to bridge the large gap be tween the first two years of “book learning” and the final two years of clinical work. Just the mastering of the techniques of being at ease with a patient, acquiring a good history and performing a complete physical examination (jnickly is a formidable task, but one that must be fairly well in hand if the first weeks of ward re sponsibilities are not to be a complete shambles. The last two years—during which time the student’s ego is helped im mensely by being addressed as “Doc tor”—the medical student works on the wards of the various services at Duke and the Veterans’ Administra tion Hospital and in the clinics. Dur ing this time all of the learning of the first two years is brought into play in the daily task of seeing and treating patients with a wide variety of ail ments. The student, during this time on the wards, is responsible for “w’orking uj)” a certain number of patients; doing the necessary labora tory work; following up on proce dures that are carried out by other departments; and rounding each day with the intern, residents and staff members on each of his patients to discuss the ])rogress of the case and its dis[)osition. Naturally as the stu dent becomes more adept he is given more responsibility — though this process seems slow at times to the student—and is a constant source of “grijjing.” The third aiul foui-th year medical student puts in closer to an 18-hour than an 8-hour day like most of the rest of us. There is the never-ending “sent w'ork,” as the students lovingly call the laboratory work; patient work-u])s, rounds, conferences and the large volume of refei'ence reading necessary to keep the daily sessions with his seniors from becoming too traumatic. But this is all part of the “learning experience” the student hears so much about; and at the end of four such years a young doctor has emerged. With the field of medi cine ever-widening even the doctors who plan to go into the practtice of general medicine usually plan to take one or two years of further training after internship and for those ])lanning to si)e(!ialize in sur gery, psychiatry, internal medicine, pediatrics, ob-gyn, and the like, up to seven more years of training awaits them. But today’s medical school gradu ate has a bright future. As Dr. Barnes Woodhall, dean of the medi cal school counselled last year’s grad uates, “The studious and well-moti- vatcd ])hysician can virtually guaran tee himself a rewarding life experi ence in any aspect of laboratory or clinical medicine and in any environ ment of his choice.” This, no doubt, explains the continued enthusiasm of Duke’s hurried and harried medical students. Barnett and Caskey (Continued from page 4) chairman of the National Asso(!iation on Standard ^Jledical Vocabidary. Runner-up in the contest was Vic tor J. Keranen of Miami, Florida, who received a copy of the medical word book. Honorable mention went to James R. Urbaniak of Fairmont, We.st Virginia; and to co-authors Frederick L. Grover of Berkeley, Cali fornia, and Ralph W. McGraw, Jr., of Follansbee, West Virginia. The contest w'as conducted by the Duke Chapter of the Student Ameri can ]\Iedical Association. Entries were judged by a Duke Medical School faculty committee. Dr. Tosteson Appointed (Continued from page 5) National Laboratory, Tipton, New York. Dr. Tosteson’s wife. Dr. Penelope Tosteson, is also a physician and is, at present, an assistant resident in dermatology at Duke Hospital.
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