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Student Life at Loyola University Medical School

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It is a privilege to have this opportunity to tell you about medical education at Loyola University Medical Center located in the western suburbs of Chicago adjacent to the 2 ,000 bed Hines Veterans Administration Hospital and the 288 bed Madden Zone Mental Health Center.

The applicant you see is one of over 2 ,000 applying for entrance next fall.

He has been invited for his admissions interview and is understandably a bit anxious.

It is our experience that interviews are as valuable for applicants as they are for the committee.

He will have at least two interviews.

Like 58 % of the entering class, he is an Illinois resident.

The present freshman class includes students from the East and the Far West as well as the Midwest.

This admissions interview is being conducted by the student representative on the admissions committee, a senior at the medical school.

Committee on admissions carefully, sometimes heatedly reviews each application.

There are also student representatives on the curriculum committee from the senior, junior, and sophomore classes.

There are 10 of these sit -down multidisciplinary laboratories.

Each accommodates 24 students.

Students you see are at their home bases.

These are available to them 24 hours a day for study, work, and sometimes recreation.

Each is located in tandem with a stand -up laboratory.

This is currently devoted to a biochemistry experiment, but it is used for the full gamut of basic medical sciences except gross anatomy.

The new curriculum will make fuller use of these laboratories as an instructional device.

A student's work may vary from that of the fellow at the next bench, so that individual supervision is crucial.

Participants in the symposium on the brain and human behavior held at the medical school included three Nobel laureates, Daniel Beauvais, Ragnar Granit, and Sir John Eccles, as well as Jean Piaget, perhaps the greatest psychologist to live in this century.

The auditorium you see is equipped for closed -circuit TV, as are all the lecture halls, laboratories, operating and delivery rooms, and departmental conference rooms in the medical center.

The demonstration of the human heart from an anatomical point of view is coordinated with the study of pathological changes in the heart leading to the knowledge, understanding, and skills which are necessary for the senior student taking an elective and experimental surgery and the first -year resident on the right supervising him in this open heart procedure.

Elective experience combined with the study of core materials provide a student with the customized experience he needs in order to proceed with the graduate medical education suited to his particular interests and talent.

The senior is not only mastering the principles of surgery, he is also taking part in a study involving heart transplantation which may result in the discovery and publication of important new knowledge in regard to the innervation of the heart.

After the surgery, he reviews with his instructor the EKG findings.

The junior scrubbing in the picture is being prepared by his resident as to the probable findings in surgery.

Having done the workup, he is interested in what he will have a chance to observe for himself as he assists his attending surgeon at the operation.

He has the opportunity thus to assess the impact of surgical intervention on the natural history of the patient's disease.

After surgery, the patient care team discusses the patient's status with the chief of service in order to be prepared to provide the patient effective care during the critical post -operative period.

Sophomore above is a student in the combined MD -PhD program.

His learning, like that of all medical students, is facilitated by the opportunity for one -to -one or small group contact with the faculty.

This is possible with a curriculum which combines core material and the provision of elective opportunities.

The student above is working in the Department of Community Health and Family Medicine studying the effect of environmental pollution in northern Illinois.

The impact of the physical and biological and social environment on health and the quality of life will assume ever -mounding proportions for the next generation of physicians, as will the necessity of developing new ways of delivering health services such that all the people in our society receive adequate health care.

The faculty of the Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine in planning its educational programs recognizes that it is not enough to take account of the present, since today's students will be practicing in the 21st century.

The family is a crucial element in society and medicine must consider the needs of the family.

The student in pediatrics has the opportunity to learn that adequate care of children involves sensitivity to and the ability to communicate with parents and to understand parental fears.

They also receive the gratification that comes in working with a trusting child.

Bedside teaching is crucial to the development of the clinical skills.

Taking a history, doing an adequate physical examination, and then solving the problems that the patient's illness presents.

At the same time, it provides an opportunity to observe a model, their teacher, demonstrate what is involved in being a compassionate physician.

The modern University Medical Center is involved in education on many levels.

Here on the grounds the teacher, resident, intern, and two juniors work and learn together as a patient care team.

A medical student's life is interesting, but it can also be stressful.

And medical schools, like good physicians, need to remember that the care of the total patient is a mark of the good physician.

Thus a good medical school must be concerned with the total student.

The patient you see is a senior medical student with a fairly severe case of acute mononucleosis.

Illness causes anxiety.

An understanding physician knows this and recognizing it is able to alleviate anxiety.

This is one of the important functions of the physician -patient relationship.

Illness can be frightening for the physician, too, since sometimes it results in death.

A medical student's life, however, while demanding, is also exciting and varied.

October 18th was St.

Louis Day, a time for the distribution of honors, a time for ribbing the faculty, particularly those with beards.

The seniors above leave next month for Rhodesia, where they will go as Smith Klein and French fellows.

And they do have senses of humor.

And medicine deals not only with illness and not only involves death, but also new life.

Identifier
F.2005-01-0017
Date Of Production
circa 1955
Abstract
Promotional film for Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine.
Narrator William B. Rich, M.D. takes the viewer on a tour of what student life is like, providing facts about the school over footage of the application process, student facilities, observation and hands on experience in the operating room. bedside learning, and graduation. There is an emphasis on doctor and patient communication and sensitivity when patients are experiencing fears and anxiety.
Log
00:00 - CU, ZOOM OUT sign “The New Loyola University Medical Center,” credits
00:24 - narrator gives statistics and facts about the admissions process, PAN LEFT Loyola applicant in suit walks into lobby, police officer points him in direction for interview, women working at desks in admissions office, PAN RIGHT woman helps applicant
00:57 - MS man behind desk conducts admissions interview with woman, MS two men in admissions interview
01:14 - MS committees around a large desk review applicants
01:31 - MS four students at a table in laboratory studying specimen under a microscope, narrator says these are home base for students available 24 hours a day
01:53 - CU machine dials, MS interior stand up laboratory used in tandem with home base labs, students working at stations in lab, professor goes to each student providing individual supervision
02:49 - MLS speaker at podium at Symposium on the Brain and Human Behavior, MS front row, three Nobel laureates, Daniel Bovet, Ragnar Granit, and Sir John Eccles, CU psychologist Jean Piaget, Var shots audience in lecture hall
03:24 - CU heart model, ZOOM OUT doctor giving anatomical demonstration of human heart with plastic model to people at a table
03:36 - CU cross section of human heart, ZOOM OUT doctor and student, this education will lead up to surgery their senior year
03:46 - HA MS, CU heart surgery, student operating with doctor observing, MS doctor observing gauges, CU machinery, surgery is experiment towards heart transplant surgery development, after surgery doctor reviews EKG findings with student
05:02 - MS SA three doctors in scrubs washing their hands up to the elbow, CU scrubbing
05:17 - CU screen, machines, MS heart surgery being conducting in operating room, student observes how he will assist surgeon at the operation, CU pulling heart out with forceps
05:52 - text card reads “Post Anesthetic Recovery ROOM”, Var MS patient care team in scrubs standing over empty hospital bed reading chart for patient assessing patient’s status with chief of service to provide proper post-op treatment
06:09 - Var one-on-one learning with student and faculty members, CU, ZOOM OUT student with faculty reading results sitting at a large machine, MS two men reviewing a chart
06:32 - African American student working in the department of Community Health and Family Medicine to study the effects of pollution on health in Illinois area, MS, CU moves liquid from one test tube to another with eye dropper
07:18 - faculty of Stritch School of Medicine meeting around oval table in an office, planning for the future, female student walking down hall toward camera
07:42 - CU doctor working with child, ZOOM OUT and IN little girl drawing in room with stuffed animals, emphasis on ability to communicate with children and parents, team of student doctors walk in to examine child, bedside teaching as a patient care team
09:39 - MLS SA team of doctors in hospital room feeling glands of a student with acute mononucleosis
10:03 - MS doctor and patient talking at desk, doctors must be able to recognize and alleviate patient anxiety, MLS RA students in classroom look on as professor writes on a chalkboard, woman stands up to talk
10:32 - St. Luke’s Day, distribution of honors, MLS students walking up to podium to accept honors, MLS audience applauding, MS two men play guitars and sing a song about last day of class and school experience, MS audience in suits applauding
11:28 - MLS RA two women and a female nurse walk down hall into patient’s room, MS interior operating room where woman is about to give birth, door with small window closes on camera, narrator says students not only learn about death, but new life
11:58-12:12 - credits
Run Time
0:12:12
Format
16mm
Extent
445 feet
Color
Color
Sound
Optical
Reel/Tape Number
1/1
Has Been Digitized?
Yes
Language Of Materials
English
Element
Print
Genre
Medical (Non-fiction)
Sponsored
Form
Advertisements
Short
Subject
Medicine
Education
Health
Related Collections
SUBSERIES II: Medical Films

Related Places
North America ➜ United States ➜ Illinois ➜ Maywood

Distributor
Loyola University of Chicago

Main Credits
Loyola University of Chicago (is producer)
Loyola University of Chicago Medical Center (is producer)
Maurer, John A. (is director)

Additional Credits
Conneely, Margaret (is contributor)

Participants And Performers
Rich, William B (is narrator)

 
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