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Show 'Pharmacolo&J Occasionally in the long and length~ process of education the student encoun ters a person and more rarely an entire department that chooses to give him its best. Surely such an event occurred in our sophomore year when we studied under Dr. Louis S. Goodman and the De partment of Pharmacology. Erudite and Humane This department made what seems to us an innately dry subject interesting. On the whole, their lectures were very wel prepared and equally well executed. Th entire plan of the course was systematic and selective with an eye toward con veying to us a very useful way of thinking about pharmacologic issues. Proo of this intent, in addition to the conten of the lectures, was the encouragement of our questions and discussions; the prescription-writing assignments; and the tests, which were concerned with ou ability to think as well as to regurgitate notes. There are, of course, criticisms, not the least of which is that the Department of Pharmacology was one more of the many departments which wanted to be The department to teach us how to really use the Ii bra ry with a "research project." We think the prescription writing was very useful, but we question whether there should have been so much of it. Finally, we would have liked to have seen more correlation with the practical side of clinical medicine. Despite these criticisms, Pharmacology remains probably the best of our "academic" classes The Department of Pharmacology is an example of how the "basic sciences'' can be made relevant to medicine, even in the clasroom. 14 |
