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Duke Hospital, InterGom
Barnell and Caskey Win Studenl Honors
Supt i
Coxnen
By Charles II. Freiizel
A truly remarkable phenomenon
occurs rei)eatedly in our Medical Cen
ter and most of us are not fully aware
of it. Each fall 76 ea?er, slightly
nervous new medical students enter
our Medical School; after 44 months
of an education process provided for
them by the School of Medicine, they
emerge as confident, objective profes
sional men.
Duke is only one of 8(i medical
schools in the United States and yet
each Duke graduate is unicjue in that
a [)art of Duke University ^Medical
Center is taken with him as he moves
into graduate education and into the
practice of medicine. Somewhere
along the way, during his medical
school tenure, he has learned not only
the science of medicine, but also a
j)hilosophy of life, a code of ethics,
and an individual pattern for his
practice of medicine.
]\lany people make contributions
to the characteristics of Duke that be
come a part of our Medical School
graduate. The members of the facul
ty who teach liim directly are ob
viously major contributors. Hun
dreds of other members of the faculty
and staff with whom he has contact
have varying degrees of influence,
('ollectively, we create an image of
the Duke University Medical Center
with which our medical student iden
tifies himself as he becomes more and
more a j>art of the Duke family.
p]very member of the ^ledical Cen
ter faculty and staff has a responsi
bility for maintaining both individu
ally and collectively, the high stand
ards of practice and service that W'e
want our students to take with them
into their professional life.
C'rawford liarnett
The first Davison Scholar of the
School of Medicine has been named:
(,’rawford Barnett, Jr., second year
medical student from Atlanta, Geor-
gia.
The Davison Scholar Program to
honor Dr. W. C. Davison was estab
lished last fall by the Duke Medical
Student Government Association in
(!ooi)eration with the Medical Cen
ter. Duke medical students contrib
uted an initial gift of .$500, and Dr.
Davison gave .$2,500 from a gift fund
provided by Medical ('enter alumni
and friends. The scholarship program
will enable one Duke medical stu
dent each year to study abroad for
a])proximately four months. It pro
vides a $500 stipend and is awarded
on the ba.sis of academic achievement
and j)rofessional promise.
Barnett will study general internal
medicine under Sir George W. Pick
ering, Regius Profes.sor of Medicine
at Oxford University, England, be
ginning in February, 1963. Also,
lie plans to do research in the history
and cultural aspects of medicine
while at Oxford.
Barnett received the B.A. degree
magna cum laude from Yale Univer
sity in 1960. He was a member of
the varsity swimming team at Yale,
was designated a Ranking Scholar be
cause of outstanding academic
achievement, and was elected to Phi
Tom Caskey
lieta Kappa, national scholastic hon
orary society. In 1960, lie spent two
months in Chile as an exchange stu
dent under provisions of the Experi
ment in International Living pro
gram. His activities at Duke include
co-editorship of the Medical School
yearbook and membership on the
steering committee of the School’s
Cabot Society. Last spring, he won
the Trent Prize for a paper on “IMed-
icine in Colonial America.”
Another newly established award
has been won by fourth year student,
V. Thomas C'askey, of Columbia,
South Carolina. He has been named
winner of the first Smith, Kline and
French Award for ^ledical Writing.
The $100 prize went to Caskej^ as
author of the best scientific paper
among those written by Duke medical
students who conducted research
projects last summer. His paper de
scribes experimental work in purine
biochemistry.
Funds for the award were made
available to Duke by the Smith, Kline
and French Foundation, Philadel
phia, Pennsylvania, to encourage the
development of skill iti written sci
entific communication. Caskey also
received a copy of “A iledical Word
P^inder, ” written by Dr. J. E.
Schmidt of Charlestown, Indiana,
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