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Show MEDICINE Pain, effort by achievement remunerated The University of Utah College of Medicine is the only four-year medical educational institution between Denver and the West Coast. It is nationally recognized for both teaching and research work; and is housed in modern facilities joined with the University Hospital on the Eastern Campus. Medical acolytes may choose to specialize in the study of cancer, heart disease, endocrinology, pharmacology, psychiatry, surgery, artificial organs, organ transplantation as well as the traditional medical fields. Medical devotees tend to be somewhat isolated from the general student body of the University-not involved outside their studies. This separation is probably due to both the location of medical school facilities and the greater age of the average medical student. Student-faculty relations within the college are workable, and probably only that, due to a long-established barrier in the profession between those who have made it and those who might not. Those who have not yet received the Shaman's mask often feel left out, although this is hardly ever conscious intent on the part of lecturers. Recently, an attempt to break the relative success barrier was instituted in medical grading systems. All aspiring doctors are rated on a pass-fail basis rather than by letter grades, in order to insure uniformity of learning and treatment. A medical scholar has it rough. The pain he experiences and the effort he exerts are virtually unrewarded until he completes his eight years of education. Concern for the lives he learns to save and pride in his own achievement are sometimes all he has to encourage him, but the rewards are great. Franklin G. Ebaugh-Dean 396 |
