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Page 2 Dukk Hospitai., InterCom On February 24, 1960, the visit of Dr. Alfred R. Shands, Jr., formerly professor of ortlioi)e(lics at Duke, and now director of the Alfred I. Dupont Institute of the Nemours Foundation in Wilmington, Delaware, was celebrated by a dinner with the surviving original members of the medical facult.y. Seated: Drs. Watt W. Eagle, Edwin P. Alyea, Bayard Carter, Duryl Hart, Alfred J{. Shands, .7r., W. C. Davison, Wiley D. Forbus, Eobert A. Ross (now j)rofessor of gynecology at TTNC), and Robert .T. Reeves. Standing: Drs. Lenox I). Baker, .Tulian M. Ruftin, Mr. F. Ross Porter, Drs. Clarence E. Gardner, Jr., Oscar ('. E. Ilansen-Priiss, Elbert L. I’ersons, Angus M. McHryde, Banks Anderson, attorney Victor S. Bryant (guest), and Dr. Beverly Raney (now professor of orthopedics at TTNC). Not pre.sent were: Drs. Roger D. Baker, Mary L. C. Bernheim, P'rederick Bern- iieiin, I). T. Smith, and Haywood M. Taylor, Mr. 1. T. Reamer, Miss Marion Batchelder, Miss Mildred M. Sherwood, and Mrs. Mona S. Morgan. The orifjiiial staff totaled 45. Tlie 1959 catalogue lists 622 professional staff' members, includiii*? senior staff', ■ resident staff' and fellows. The first classes admitted to the Duke University Schools of Medicine and Nursing numbered 18 and :5() respectively. The present student bodies in these two schools are, re- s]>ectively, 1512 and .‘U)7. Actuallj) Lenox Maker -was the first studcnl admitted to Duke Medical School. He came here from TcMvessee in 1927 to he tt'oiner for the football team, and we had him take a couple of courses at Carolina till we got underway. If a medical school is to function well there must be an adequate sup])ly of clinical material, (’ould Durham, which in 1927 liad a poj)ulation of 43,000, supply enough ])atients ? Probably not, but within a radius of 50 miles was a i)op>dation of some halt million. The day the hospital opened, July 21, 1930, 17 patients were admitted. In 1938 the 100,000 mark was passed; in 1954 the half million mark; and in IMay, 1959, the 600,000th ])atient was registered. From the beginning, the school of medicine was approved as Class A by the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the American ^Jledi- cal Association, and w^as a member in good standing of the Association of American ]\Iedical Colleges. In April, 1935, a survey by these two grou])s placed Duke in the toj) 25 per cent of medical schools in the country—a highly satisfactory rating for a school oi'ganized less than five years. Dnke Hospital has heen placed (1959) amoncj the thirteen hest teaching hospitals in the country hy “Medical Economics.” I never had any doubt abont it, hut it is nice to see it in print. The physical growth of the ^Medical Center is here for all to see: the l^rivate Diagnostic Clinic, the Bell Kesearch Building, Tlanes House for Xurses, the new wing with Out-Pa tient Dei)artment and wards opened in 1957 which bi-ought the bed capac ity of Duke Hospital to 666. Now soon to be begun is the building to house gerontology and a diagno.stic and treatment center. Bach addition has brought, also, renovation and change to the older quarters. I am now in my sixth office. My first one in 1927 was in Bivins If all on the East Cami>us. In 1929, dur ing the original building program, I moved into the ba.tement of the Duke Hospital in the room later occupied by the nurses’ classroom, and at present transformed into additional telephone space. From 1930 to 1932 I had the offices later occupied by Dr. Hanes and now by Dr. Stead’s laboratory. In 1932 I moved to three rooms on the right of the entrance to the Medical School, which are now occupied by Dr. Arnold i?i Otolaryngology. In 1952, I moved into sumptuous, though smelly, offices in the Bell Research Huilding, but because of the distance away from the faculty and students, I returned in 1957 to the main huilding to five offices opposite the Dope Shop. The only rooms in (he center now used for their original purposes are the toilets and amphitheater. A gradual shift in emphasis has occurred, not only at Duke but in medical schools across the country, witli more attention being focused on research activities. This shift has been fostered both by the complex nature of present-day medical knowl edge and practice, and by the increas ing availability of liberal research grants. During the summer of 1958, fifty-nine of the medical students worked as research technicians in stead of working in some general hospital for experience. I am not sure the shift is a good one. Be fore the Second War, 4.0 per cent of our graduates were in general practice. Only eight per cent of our post-war graduates have be come family doctors. In an institution where rapid growth and development are the “norm,” periodic re-examination of aims is essential. (Continued on page 3)
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