Annual report of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital : 1919.

  • Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.
Date:
1919
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Credit: Annual report of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital : 1919. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    one of the day’s admissions turned over to him for history and examination, should follow his case in time to the operating room where he cleans up and participates as an assistant, and at the ward visit should report the case to the visiting attendant in place of the House Officer in whose ward and under whose direction he is serving. Thus the gain becomes mutual — students become an invaluable part of the hospital machine and in return they are supervised and directed in this work by all mem¬ bers of the staff. Indeed it goes without saying that everyone, from the newest House Officer to the Chief of Service serving in a hospital with a School connection such as we have, should be regarded as a member of the teaching force, whether or not his name appears in the medical school catalogue. An error in our original hospital plans and construction has been atoned for by the later erection of a teaching amphitheatre unsurpassed for its purposes by any that I know, and, as clinical exercises come more and more to replace old-time lectures, third and fourth year students will come to meet less and less often in the medical school lecture rooms and more and more in this place. Every other week Dr. Cabot is giving his justly celebrated medico-pathological conferences here during the present school year, and I am sure if the matter were left to the students’ choice on the basis of convenience, all would be held here. From a teaching point of view we must con¬ fess to some shortcomings so far as the third-year students’ Out-Patient opportunities are concerned, but to this we will return. (3) The Extension of Knowledge. One thing that must be borne in mind by those who have at heart the hospital’s contributions to knowledge is, that, with the same sized residential and house-officer group with which we started out, we are now doing more than double the