Browsing by Subject "Undergraduate medical education"

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    Interview with H. Mead Cavert
    (University of Minnesota, 2009-04-28) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Cavert, H. Mead
    H. Mead Cavert begins by describing his background, including his childhood, his education, and why he chose medicine as his profession. He describes his work in the Department of Physiology and his research in the early 1950s. He discusses entering medical administration and his work as Assistant Dean, Associate Dean and Executive Officer of the Medical School, and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. He reflects on working with Maurice Visscher, Nathan Lifson, Jack Johnson, Neal Gault, Harold Diehl, Robert Howard, and Lyle French. He discusses the appointment of Robert Howard to replace Diehl as the Dean of the College of Medical Sciences, and the creation of the Vice President of the Health Sciences and the hiring of Lyle French. He discusses the faculty practice issue; the financing of medical education in the late 1950s and 1960s; the dean’s office relationship with the state legislature and its role in securing state funds; the revision of the Medical School curriculum in the 1960s and responses to the revision, including the Comprehensive Clinical Program and the Rural Physician Associate Program. He also discusses the development of the Academic Health Center; transfer students from the Universities of North and South Dakota in the late 1950s and 1960s; the attempt to establish a medical school in St. Paul; the establishment of the Medical Scientist Training Program, the history of the MD-Ph.D. program and Ph.D.s in clinical medicine at UMN; the relationship between the University of Minnesota and the Medical School and the Mayo Clinic; the issue of the status of residents as students or employees; team teaching in the health sciences; and the establishment of a program for minority students in the late 1960s. Cavert’s wife, June Cavert, sits through most of the interview, interjecting a few comments. At one point, she discusses the organizations for the wives of undergraduate medical students and residents, and the Caverts also discuss the contribution of spouses (generally wives) to the successful development of medical students and residents.
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    Interview with Richard M. Magraw
    (University of Minnesota, 2009-07-31) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Magraw, Richard M.
    Richard Magraw begins with his background and education. He describes his residencies and his work history and discusses his work as assistant dean at UMN. He discusses the effect of National Institutes of Health research funding on medical education in the late 1940s and 1950s, the focus on specialization and the de-emphasis of primary care during this time. He goes on to discuss the faculty practice issue at UMN in the 1960s, the regional and national concern in the 1960s over a shortage of physicians, the national trend in the 1960s of regional health planning, the development of family practice as a specialty, his book Ferment in Medicine, and the influence on medicine of the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid in the mid- and late-1960s. He discusses the Comprehensive Clinic Program (1960-67), the relationship between the Medical School and Minnesota state legislature, the reorganization and expansion of the health sciences in the 1960s, the relationship between the Medical School and the affiliated hospitals, and the relationship among the Schools of Nursing, Medicine, and Public Health within the College of Medical Sciences. He describes the attempt to establish a medical school in St. Paul, the establishment of the Department of Family Practice and Community Health, and the separation of the departments of Psychiatry and Neurology at UMN. He discusses what he did after he left the UMN, including his work in Washington, DC.
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    Interview with Robert McCollister
    (University of Minnesota, 2009-12-09) Tobbell, Dominique A.; McCollister, Robert
    Robert McCollister begins by discussing his background, including his education and medical training. He discusses getting into administration, how he became involved with the curriculum, working in the Department of Laboratory Medicine, and his work as assistant dean of student affairs. He offers many reflections on the development of the Medical School curriculum. He describes the work to improve the governance in the Medical School in the mid-1960s, revising the curriculum in the 1960s, the expansion of Medical School class size in the 1960s, recruitment of minority students, and Robert Howard’s departure as dean of the College of Medical Sciences and the appointment of Lyle French as the first Vice President of the Health Sciences. He discusses the Educational Policy Committee, the large number of women in leadership positions in the Department of Laboratory Medicine, the reorganization of the health sciences in 1970, department “fiefdoms”, Curriculum 2010, the Comprehensive Clinic, the Department of Family and Community Health, specialization in medicine, Phase C of the medical school curriculum, the teaching of behavioral science within the curriculum, transfer students from the Dakotas, the Program in Human Sexuality, and the student attempt to get a medical ethics course included in the curriculum. He talks about Ray Amberg, C.J. Watson, Richard Ebert, Frederic Kottke, Robert Howard, Benjamin Fuller, Frank Cerra, and Lyle French.
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    Interview with Robert Mulhausen
    (University of Minnesota, 2009-07-13) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Mulhausen, Robert
    Mulhausen provides a brief overview of his education and early career. He discusses the UMN Medical School’s decision to increase class size in the 1960s, the Health Sciences curriculum changes, and the reorganization into the Academic Health Center in 1970. He discusses his role as the representative of the dean’s office regarding facilities management, his role in space planning, and issues of space in the health sciences at UMN. He briefly describes the relationship of Twin Cities affiliated hospitals and the University Hospital and Medical School. He describes his move to St. Paul Ramsey Hospital as the chief of medicine, the establishment of a group practice plan at St. Paul Ramsey, his return to the VA hospital as associate chief of staff for ambulatory care, and some of the changes at the VA when he was there, including new outpatient clinics and reforming billing practices. He describes his research on acid-base balance and blood gas and the importance of obtaining blood gas machines for clinical use. He discusses the failed attempts to combine the University Hospital with the VA or affiliated hospitals in the 1970s and 1980s. He reflects on tensions between family practitioners and internists; house officers and changes in technology and computerization; relations between UMN health sciences schools and within the dean’s office; Elmer Learn and the Committee for the Study of Physical Facilities for the Health Sciences; his experience with the human volunteer policy; recruiting minority students, particularly American Indians; the relationship between clinical and basic science departments at UMN; and generally on the UMN Medical School, internal medicine, and primary care and geriatrics.
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    Interview with Robert Ulstrom
    (University of Minnesota, 2010-02-18) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Ulstrom, Robert
    Robert Ulstrom begins the interview by describing his background, including his education, his service in the US Army, and why he became a pediatrician. He reflects on his mentor Irvine McQuarrie, and his colleagues John Anderson, Robert Howard, and Lyle French. He discusses his experiences in University of Minnesota Medical School, his move to UCLA, his return to the University of Minnesota in the mid-1950s, and his work as associate dean in the College of Medical Sciences. Other topics discussed include, his research, the private practice issue, relations with affiliated hospitals and their faculty after the expansion of the Medical School class size in the 1960s, the curriculum revision in the 1960s, the attempt to establish a medical school in St. Paul, the establishment of the Department of Family Practice, tensions between private practice physicians and Medical School physicians, the effort to establish a Minneapolis children’s hospital in the 1960s, tensions between Minneapolis and St. Paul physicians, the reorganization of the health sciences into the Academic Health Center in 1970, the Mayo Clinic and the Mayo School of Medicine.
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    Interview with Vincent Hunt
    (University of Minnesota, 2010-02-09) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Hunt, Vincent
    Vincent Hunt begins by discussing his background, including his education and why he became a physician. He discusses his experiences working as a physician in a rural area (Red Lake Falls, MN); as a medical student in the late 1950s; as an intern at Bethesda Hospital; and as a resident at the UMN. He discusses curriculum changes in the late 1950s, the University of Minnesota’s Comprehensive Clinic, comprehensive clinic programs at other universities, lobbying the state Legislature, the Department of Family Practice, Minnesota Academy of General Practice and Herb Huffington, the Rural Physician Associate program and the Rural Medical Care program, relations between the Schools in the health sciences, the heath sciences reorganization in 1970, and relations between the Medical School and the Mayo Clinic. He talks about the UMN Medical School faculty, Owen Wagensteen, Richard Magraw, Ben Fuller, Robert Howard, and Edward Ciriacy. He discusses medical ethics, his decision to enter general practice, nurses in Red Lake Falls, the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid, family practice as a specialty, rural medicine, tensions between academic physicians and private practitioners, the attempt to establish a second medical school in the Twin Cities in the 1960s, the relationship between family practice and internal medicine, general practice, and the comprehensive health insurance plan.
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    Interview with William E. Jacott
    (University of Minnesota, 2013-06-18) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Jacott, William E.
    Dr. William Jacott begins part one of his interview by describing his educational experiences at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) and the University of Minnesota Twin Cities (UMTC), his interest in medicine, and his early career. Dr. Jacott then reflects on his time in private practice; the establishment of the Medical School at the UMD; his growing role at the UMD Medical School; the Family Practice Program at UMTC; orienting student education and training toward family practice; relations between the UMD Medical School and other schools and hospitals; and his work with the State Legislature. Reflecting on his time as assistant vice president for the health sciences at UMTC, Dr. Jacott discusses the following: community outreach; his work as administrator in charge of Use of Animals in Research; setting up affiliation agreements for the professional schools in the health sciences; the role of nurse practitioners in family practice; his work with the various vice presidents of the Academic Health Center; and the threatened closure of the College of Veterinary Medicine and the Dental School. Jacott begins part two of his interview by describing his experience with the Antilymphocyte Globulin litigation, the creation of the University Health System, the sale of University Hospital to Fairview, and the closure of the University Family Practice Program. He then discusses Ed Ciriacy’s chairmanship of the Department of Family Practice and Community Health and his own chairmanship of the Department. The conversation then turns toward a discussion of Dr. Jacott’s national leadership roles. He discusses his work for the American Medical Association as chairman of the Council on Medical Education and a member of the Board and his time on the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice, the Federation of State Medical Boards, and the Joint Commission Board of Commissioners. Dr. Jacott concludes the interview with his views on combining the position of Medical School dean and vice president of the AHC.