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University of Vermont ScholarWorks @ UVM University of Vermont College of Medicine University Libraries Catalogs 1968 University of Vermont, College of Medicine Bulletin University of Vermont Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/dmlcatalog Part of the Medicine and Health Sciences Commons Recommended Citation University of Vermont, "University of Vermont, College of Medicine Bulletin" (1968). University of Vermont College of Medicine Catalogs. 107. https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/dmlcatalog/107 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the University Libraries at ScholarWorks @ UVM. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Vermont College of Medicine Catalogs by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks @ UVM. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 1968-1969 BULLETIN University of Vermont COLLEGE OF MEDICINE Bulletin of the University of Vermo"'t • Volume 66 • February 15, 1969 • Number P_ublished by the University of Vermont, 85 South Prospect Street, Burlington, Vermont 05401, t1mes a year: once each in August and June; twice in October, November, December, January.d01 May; and 3 times in September, February, March and April. Second Class postage P Burlington, Vermont 05401. The- fir g1ven h 1p In tr and t M for ph d 1968-1969 BULLETIN University of Vermont COLLEGE OF MEDICINE The first General Assembly of the State of Vermont, convened in 17 91, chartered The U niver­ sity of Vermont. Ira Allen, younger brother of Ethan, had given 4,000 pounds sterling to help establish the institution. Instruction was started in 1800 and the first class graduated four years later. Meanwhile Dr. John Pomeroy, for many years the leading physician of Burlington, began around the turn of the century to take pupils. In 1804 he was appointed Lecturer in Chirur­ gery and Anatomy and, in_ 18 09, Professor of Physic, Anatomy and Surgery at the University. Table of Contents History of the College of Medicine Student Information . Requirements for Admission Enrollment . ... Regulations for College of Medicine Students Fees and Expenses . Housing ... .. .. 12 Dining Services . 12 Scholarships and Loan Funds 1i Medical College Program and Objectives 1i New Curriculum 20 Teaching Facilities . The Departments in the College of Medicine Anatomy . ... Biochemistry . Community Medicine. Medical Microbiology Medicine ... Dermatology . Neurology . Obstetrics and Gynecology Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology Orthopedic Surgery Pathology and Oncology Pediatrics . Pharmacology . Physiology and Biophysics 2 Psychi atry . · 49 Rad iology. .. 51 Rehab ilitation Medicine 52 Surge ry 54 Anesthesio logy . 55 eu rosurgery . 56 Ped iatric Su rge ry . 56 Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery . 57 Urology . 58 ~ l ed i ca l Libra ry . 59 Regional Medica l Program 60 Divis ion of Photography 60 61 64 64 lion and Faculty . 66 67 Academ ic Divisions of the University 68 College of Med icine Administration 70 Standing Committees 70 Index of Facu lty 72 Index of StarT . 84 1968, and Internship Appointments 88 90' 94 3 History of the College of Medicine The first General Assembly of the State of Vermont, convened in 1791, chartered The University of Vermont. Ira Allen, younger brother of Ethan Allen, had gi ven 4,000 pounds sterling to help establish the institution. Instruction was started in 1800 and the first class graduated four years later. Meanwhile Dr. John Pomeroy, for many years the leading physician of Burlington began around the turn of the century to take pupils. In 1804 he was appointed Lecture; in Chirurgery and Anatomy and, in 1809, Professor of Physic, Anatomy and Surgery at the University. The position carried no stipend nor did the institution even providea room in which to give instruction. By 1814 Pomeroy had so many students he could no longer accommodate them in his home and he consequently rented an empty store in which he lectured to a class of 12. His son, John N . Pomeroy (not a physician), added a course of lectures in chemistry in 1816 and to these the townspeople occasionally came out of interest in the demonstrations. In 1822 a faculty of 5 professors including John Pomeroy and Nathan R. Smith was assembled and the Trustees of The University of Vermont ruled that the president might "confer medical degrees on such persons as shall attend the medical lectures and a re recommended by the medica l professors and lecturers of the University." Dr. Smith's father, the more famous Dr. Nathan Smith and the founder of the medical colleges of Dartmouth, Bowdoin, and Yale, is said to have helped in the organizationo f the Vermont school. In the early years of the 19th century only a small portion of medical education took place in the universities. The part-time doctor of colonial times had given way to the full-time professional physician but there was no legal regulation of the practice of medicine. Most degrees and certificates, if they were obtained at all, were granted byth e medical societies after the candidate had served as an apprentice. William Beaumont, the Army Surgeon whose experiments on the physiology of digestion as performed on the person of the French Canadian youth, Alexis St. Mar it ~ formed the basis of this science, began his medical career in Vermont. While still a school teacher in Plattsburgh, N.Y., he is said to have paddled a can across Lake Champlain to read in the library of Dr. Pomeroy and later was apprenttc~ to Dr. Benjamin Cha ndler of St. Albans. The minutes of the Thtrd Medtcal Societ y ~ Vermont record that on the second Tuesday of June, 1812 Beaumont "present himself for examination in the different branches of the medical profession" and~ approved. 4 In the late 1820's a gro up of loca l phys icians in terested some philanthropica ll y-minded residen ts of Burli ngton in buying land for a medi ca l college building adj acent to the Univers it y campus and in 1829 a two-story brick building was bui lt. In 1828 Benjamin Linco ln, the grandso n of the famous revolutionary general of the same name, was invited to Burlington to give a course of lec tures in anatomy. Lincoln had had a classical educa tion at Bowdoi n and had been apprenticed to the fa shionable and di stinguished Dr. George Shat tu ck of Boston. Rusti c and educa ti onall y unprepared as most of the Vermon t studen ts we re, th ey we re evidently entranced by Dr. Lincoln's beautiful demo nstrations and the clarity of his presentation . He was offered the chair of anatomy and al though the Universities of Maryl and and Bowdoin both solicited him he chose Vermo nt, perhaps because he " hoped to realize .. hi s idea of a medical school in this Universit y without the hindrance of encrusted organic remains from old formations." Lincol n soo n became the lead ing li ght of the school whi ch flouri shed for a few yea rs. Unfortunately he became ill and in 1834 went back to hi s home in Maine to die. There were now two other medical sc hools in the State and an economic depression was deve lop in g. In 1836 after havi ng granted 11 6 degrees in course and 24 honorary ones, the College of Medicine closed its doors. There was a lapse unt il 1853 when after many tri bulations, most of them financial, Drs. W. S. Thayer of Northfield and Walter Carpenter of Randolph succeeded in re-orga nizing the Med ica l College. Subscripti ons were so li cited from the medical professo rs and the Burlington townspeople and Mrs. Thayer held a " fair" which nencd 5450.00 . The Uni ve rsit y provided a building (the sa me one which had been used b) Dr. Linco ln and whi ch still is in use, although for diflerent purposes) on the academic campus. In sp ite of competition from the sc hools in Woodstock and Castleton in Vermon t, and Hanover, N.H., courses were started and the school remained viable largely through the effo rts and personal and professional distincti on of Drs. Thayer and Carpenter, both of whom se rved successively as Dean. The average student attendance from 1859 to 1878 was about 65. T hen under the deanship of Dr. A. P. Grinnell there ~as a period of rapid ex pansion reaching a hi gh tide in 1884 when 101 young men were grad uated in Med icine. The Un ive rsi ty of Vermont Coll ege of Medicine was then, as were most others of the day, esse ntiall y a proprietary institution. T he University provided some amenities, and 11 was to a cons iderable extent responsible for the success with which the Coliege. outlasted many of its competitors. The medica l fac ulty was, however, a closed corpo­ ralioncollec ting its ow n fees and providing its own admini stration. That this was not an Ideal situation was apparent to the profession and in fact it was a movement toward 5 History reform of medical education proposed by the Vermont State Medical Society in the 1840's which led to a na tional convention which later evolved into the American Medical Association. In 1899 the Trustees of the University, although as yet only dimly aware of the enormous responsibility, financial and otherwise, which this was to entail, took over complete control of the College of Medicine. Medical education in the 19th century was didactic but clinical teaching, a rare luxury at first, became progressive ly more important. In 1879 the Mary Fletcher Hospital was built in Burlington and in 1924 the DeGoesbriand Memorial Hospital began to admit patients.

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