Cornell University Announcements Medical College 1971-72 Cornell University Medical College 1300 York Avenue New York, New York 10021 Telephone 212/ 879-9000 Cornell University Announcements Volume 63 of the Cornell University Announcements consists of twenty-three catalogs, of which this is number 13, dated August 30, 1971. Publication dates: twenty-three times a year (four times in August and October; three times in March and November; twice in July and September; once in January, April, May, June, and December). Publisher: Cornell University, Sheldon Court, 420 College Avenue, Ithaca, New York 14850. Second-class postage paid at Ithaca, New York. II98 I I I gil :»»; - am f nit iii i » * I*. •» '%L c* “ Contents Calendar 4 The Medical College 7 History 7 Facilities for Instruction 7 Admissions 10 Educational Policies and Plan of Instruction 12 Advancement and Examination 13 Requirements for Graduation 14 Examinations for Medical Licensure 14 Fees and Expenses 14 Financial Aid 15 Named Professorships 21 Form of Bequests 22 Honorary Societies 22 Alumni Association 23 Military Advisers 23 Personnel Health Service 23 Residence Halls 24 Departments of Instruction 25 Schedules, 1971-72 45 Register 49 Index of Staff 80 General Index 93 List of Announcements 96 The courses and curricula described in this Announcement, and the teaching personnel listed herein, are subject to change at any time by official action of Cornell University. Medical College Calendar 1971-72 First and Second Years Labor Day Monday, September 6 Registration and orientation for first-year students; registration for second-year students Wednesday, September 8-Friday, September 10 Opening exercises, 3:00 p.m. Friday, September 10 Instruction begins, 9:00 a.m. Monday, September 13 Fall term ends, 5:00 p.m. Wednesday, November 24 Thanksgiving holiday Thursday, November 25-Friday, November 26 Examinations Monday, November 29-Saturday, December 4 Winter term begins Monday, December 6 Christmas recess Instruction suspended 5:00 p.m. Friday, December 17 Instruction resumed 9:00 a.m. Monday, January 3 Winter term ends, 5:00 p.m. Friday, March 3 Examinations for second-year students Monday, March 6-Saturday, March 11 Examinations for first-year students Monday, March 6-Sunday, March 19 Spring recess for second-year students Sunday March 12-Sunday, March 19 Spring term begins Monday, March 20 Spring recess for first-year students Saturday, April 8-Sunday, April 16 Memorial Day, holiday Monday, May 29 Spring term ends for second-year students, 5:00 p.m. Friday, June 2 Examinations for second-year students Monday, June 5-Wednesday, June 7 Spring term ends for first-year students, 5:00 p.m. Friday, June 9 Examinations for first-year students Monday, June 12-Wednesday, June 14 Third Year Registration; instruction begins Tuesday, September 7 First rotation of Section II, Divisions C, D, and E Monday, November 1 Thanksgiving Day, holiday Thursday, November 25 Rotation of Section I, Divisions A and B Monday, November 29 Christmas recess Instruction suspended, 1:00 p.m. Saturday, December 18 Instruction resumed, 8:00 p.m. Monday, January 3 Second rotation of Section II, Divisions C, D, and E Monday, January 3 Midyear rotation of all divisions of Sections I and II Monday, February 28 Spring recess Monday, April 17-Sunday, April 23 First rotation of Section I, Divisions C, D, and E Monday, April 24 Rotation of Section II, Divisions A and B Monday, May 22 Memorial Day, holiday Monday, May 29 Second rotation of Section I, Divisions C, D, and E Monday, June 12 Independence Day, holiday Tuesday, July 4 Instruction ends Saturday, August 5 Fourth Year Registration Tuesday, September 7 Thanksgiving Day, holiday Thursday, November 25 Christmas recess Saturday, December 18-Monday, January 3 Instruction ends, 1:00 p.m. Thursday, May 25 Commencement, 3:00 p.m. Wednesday, May 31 Elective Modules A September 7-October 23 (7 weeks) B October 25-December 18 (8 weeks) C January 3-February 19 (7 weeks) D February 21 —April 8 (7 weeks) E April 10-May 25 (7 weeks) Cornell University The Medical College Purpose and History First Avenue. The College was one of the first in the country to admit women as well as men. Cornell University Medical College has as its It was also one of the first to require a degree dual aims the development of the best possible from an undergraduate college as a standard for physicians and the advancement of medical admission. knowledge through research. The faculty believes that in the ideal medical school high-quality teaching and widely ranging investigations in the life sciences are carried on concurrently with Facilities for Instruction optimal care of patients. Cornell University Medical College was estab­ The Medical College lished on April 14, 1898, by the Board of Trustees of Cornell University. Although the University, Instruction in the medical sciences is conducted which had been founded in 1865, was situated in the buildings along York Avenue from Sixty- in Ithaca, New York, the Medical College was eighth to Seventieth Streets. The entrance to the established in New York City in order to take Medical College, at 1300 York Avenue, is in the advantage of the clinical teaching facilities avail­ Samuel J. Wood Library and Research Building. able in a large population area. The original The main reading room, the catalog and reference faculty was composed of a group of distinguished sections, and the area for the current journals of professors who had previously operated a teach­ the Library are on the first floor of this building. ing institution known as the Medical College The Medical College Alumni Office (Room C-140) Laboratory. The Laboratory was at one time and the Office of Admissions and Student Affairs affiliated with the medical department of New (Room C-118) are located directly behind the Li­ York University. brary. The B and D areas of the Medical College The trustees of Cornell University had wanted adjoin the Wood Building on the north and south to form a medical education unit at various times sides. Additional research and teaching facilities since the founding of the University, and, in 1898, as well as the central animal care laboratories the generous gifts of Colonel Oliver H. Payne are located between the A and B buildings in made possible the establishment of the Medical the new William Hale Harkness Medical Research College. Colonel Payne, who provided funds for Building. The upper floors of the central portion the support of the College for several years, later of the Medical College house the Departments created a permanent endowment by donating a of Microbiology, Pathology, Physiology and Bio­ gift of more than four million dollars to the physics, and Public Health, along with the re­ College. search laboratories for several of the clinical The first dean of the Medical College was Dr. departments. The Department of Anatomy is in William Mecklenburg Polk. Among the early the building at Seventieth Street (Area A), and faculty members were such renowned scientists the building at the Sixty-eight Street end of the as Dr. Lewis A. Stimson, professor of surgery; College (Area E) houses the Departments of Bio­ Dr. James Ewing, professor of pathology; and Dr. Graham Lusk, professor of physiology. The chemistry and Pharmacology. The central build­ College has been well known, from the time of ings are joined to the main hospital buildings on its establishment, for a faculty composed of each of the seven floors. The College auditorium, persons distinguished both as scientific investi­ the student laboratories and lecture rooms for gators and as teachers. the basic science departments, and the extensive In 1900, the College occupied its first perma­ research facilities for staff and students are also nent headquarters at Twenty-eighth Street and housed in the buildings along York Avenue. Graduate School of Medical Sciences 281 beds. This Division, together with the Payne Whitney Clinic, forms the Department of Psy­ The Graduate School of Medical Sciences, one chiatry of The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical of the three academic units on Cornell’s New Center. York City campus, was organized in 1952 as a The chairman of each department is respon­ semiautonomous component of the Graduate sible for the care of patients and the conduct School of Cornell University and is responsible of professional services in the Hospital. He is for administering all advanced general degrees also the professor in charge of the corresponding granted for study in residence on the New York department in the Medical College. Every clinical City campus. The school is composed of two department is staffed by a corps of salaried divisions: the Medical College Division consisting faculty members, including the chairman, who of faculty members principally from the basic devote their full time to the service of the College science departments of the Cornell University and the Hospital. Other members of the faculty Medical College, and the Sloan-Kettering Division devote part of their time to private practice. consisting of staff members from the Sloan- Kettering Institute for Cancer Research. The Hospital for Special Surgery The faculty of the Graduate School of Medical Sciences currently offers graduate programs lead­ The Hospital for Special Surgery, maintained by ing to the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in eleven bio­ The New York Society for the Relief of the medical Fields: Biochemistry, Biological Struc­ Ruptured and Crippled, was founded in 1863 as ture and Cell Biology, Biology, Biomathematics, the first institution in the United States for the Biophysics, Genetics, Microbiology, Neurobiology treatment of orthopedic conditions. It affiliated and Behavior, Pathology, Pharmacology, and with The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Physiology. These programs are designed for Center in 1949 and moved to its present location students interested in careers in teaching and at 535 East Seventieth Street in 1955. The Hos­ research in the various basic biomedical sciences. pital consists of a modern facility containing 204 All of the facilities of the Cornell University beds, caring for some 3,500 inpatients a year Medical College and the Sloan-Kettering Institute and 11,000 outpatients in 19 subspecialty clinics. for Cancer Research are available to graduate Twenty-four residents are trained in a three-year students. Such facilities include, in addition to program in orthopedic surgery with an elective well-equipped classrooms and libraries, unex­ fourth year. The Hospital maintains a school for celled modern laboratories and equipment for the training of practical nurses. research. For further details, refer to the An­ The Philip D. Wilson Research Foundation was nouncement of the Graduate School of Medical opened in 1960 to investigate the causes, pre­ Sciences. vention, and improvement in the treatment of orthopedic and rheumatic diseases. The New York Hospital The Hospital for Special Surgery provides the orthopedic and rheumatic diseases services for Clinical instruction is given in the eleven separate The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. departments forming the New York Hospital. The medical and surgical departments occupy the The Burke Rehabilitation Center central hospital building; the women’s clinic (Lying-In Hospital), the pediatric department, and The Burke Rehabilitation Center, 785 Mamaroneck the psychiatric department (Payne Whitney Clinic) Avenue, White Plains, New York, was founded in extend from north to south, overlooking the East April 1915 by John Masterson Burke as a tribute River. Each clinic contains facilities for bed to the memory of his mother, Winifred Masterson patients, an outpatient department, lecture rooms, Burke. On March 14, 1968, the Burke Center and laboratories for clinical study and research. became affiliated with The New York Hospital- Special provision has also been made for student Cornell Medical Center. laboratory work. The Department of Medicine A 150-bed rehabilitation center accredited by occupies the second to fourth floors of the cen­ the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hos­ tral hospital building, with semiprivate areas for pitals, the Burke Rehabilitation Center offers a bed patients, three floors for the outpatient de­ multidisciplinary approach to the rehabilitation partment, and extensive laboratories for chemical, phase of total medical care. Since the primary physiological, and biological research. The De­ objective of its program is the integration of the partment of Surgery utilizes the fifth to the ninth disabled patient into the community as a respon­ floors for semiprivate beds and outpatient ser­ sible individual functioning at his maximum po­ vices as well as facilities for the various surgical tential, the Center offers its diagnostic, evaluative, specialties. The operating rooms are on the and treatment services to those of all ages who tenth and eleventh floors. Above these are six have need for medical rehabilitation care. floors containing 128 rooms for private patients. The comprehensive program includes: services Living quarters for the resident staff are in the of physicians trained in rehabilitation and all new house-staff residence across York Avenue. other medical specialties; nursing care; nutritional The entire Hospital has a capacity of approxi­ research and application; occupational therapy; mately 1,076 beds. The Westchester Division in physical therapy, speech and hearing services; White Plains, New York, contains an additional psychological and psychiatric services; social