Browsing by Subject "University Hospitals"

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    Interview with A. Marilyn Sime
    (University of Minnesota, 2010-04-15) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Sime, A. Marilyn
    A. Marilyn Sime begins by discussing her background, including her education. She discusses her experiences as a baccalaureate student at the University of Minnesota; working as a nurse at the University Hospital in the late 1950s; working as a nurse in Minot, ND, in the 1950s; her experiences as an instructor at the University of Minnesota; teaching in the baccalaureate program; and her doctoral research. She compares her responsibilities at the different places she worked, particularly Minot and the University Hospital. She describes nursing curriculum changes in the 1960s; technologies she interacted with in the critical care unit; how physicians treated nurses; the efforts of the School of Nursing to secure funding for building Unit F; the concern in the 1960s over the shortage of health care workers; challenge exams for RNs in the 1970s; the Boston University School of Nursing; the rural nursing program at the University of Minnesota; and the Block Nurse Program at the University of Minnesota. She discusses team nursing; faculty organization issues and discontent with Edna Fritz’s leadership; the effects of the School of Nursing being part of the College of Medical Sciences in the 1960s and the changes with the reorganization of the health sciences in the School of Nursing becoming more autonomous in 1970; and relations between the health science units and their faculty after the reorganization. She talks about the practical nursing program; changes in the graduate nursing curriculum and the development of doctoral program; funding; issues of gender; the women’s health movement; the development of the nurse midwifery program; the public health nursing program; the relationship between the University Hospital and the School of Nursing; the Minnesota Nursing Association, the American Nursing Association, and the National League of Nursing; and nurse practitioners. She remembers Katherine Densford, Edna Fritz, Isabel Harris, Irene Ramey, and Lyle French.
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    Interview with John Kralewski
    (University of Minnesota, 2011-02-14) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Kralewski, John
    John Kralewski begins by describing his background, including his education, his service in the Air Force, his early career, and why he went into the health sciences. He discusses his experiences as student in pharmacy and then in hospital administration at the UMN. He discusses the Program in Hospital Administration at UMN; hospital administration as a field in the 1960s and 1970s; the School of Public Health; funding; his research; efforts to introduce mandatory generic prescribing in the 1960s; pharmacy as a profession; nursing; the divisions within the School of Public Health in the 1960s; leadership in the health sciences at the UMN; University Hospitals; other hospitals in the Twin Cities; and the University of Minnesota’s decision to sell University Hospitals to Fairview. He talks about Gaylord Anderson, James Hamilton, Cherie Perlmutter, Stephen Joseph, Lyle French, Frank Cerra, and others in leadership and administrative position in the Health Sciences. In his second interview, John Kralewski discusses his experiences as assistant vice president for Health Sciences. He talks about the Center for Health Services Research; health services research at Minnesota and around the country; working with the Minnesota state legislature; rural health care; the Health Information Foundation (at the University of Chicago); moving the Center for Health Services Research out of the vice president’s office and into the School of Public Health; the Hospital Administration program; graduate programs in Public Health; relations between the Academic Health Center administration and the state legislature; the relationship between the health sciences units, and health sciences education and funding. He discusses Lyle French, Neal Vanselow, and Robert Kane.
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    Interview with Katherine Lillehei
    (University of Minnesota, 2010-10-27) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Lillehei, Katherine
    Katherine Lillehei begins by describing her background, including her education and why she went into nursing. She discusses her experiences as a nursing student at the University of Minnesota, working at the General Hospital, working at the University Hospital, and as a private duty nurse. She describes the relationship between nurses and physicians; the heart/lung machine; the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Lillehei lectures; the experiences of wives of surgeons; the elimination of the practical nursing degree program at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing; and commuting back and forth to New York City while her husband worked at the New York Hospital. She discusses her husband, C. Walton Lillehei, touching on topics such as his experiences with cancer and the atmosphere in the Department of Surgery while he was there. She talks about Richard Varco, Owen Wangensteen, Earl Bakken, Maurice Vischer, Katherine Densford, Ellen Fahy, and other School of Nursing Deans.
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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.