CHIRON Melbourne Medical School | twenty ten Making doctors since 1862 chiron Contents twenty10 Contents Turning Points Alumni Stories 01 From the head of the Melbourne Medical School 18 Fifty years of the BMedSc and letters from abroad Speculum Medical Memories 02 A retrospective look at the Medical Student magazine 24 Celebrating 150 years of medical heritage Syd Rubbo Reunions 06 Exploring the life of a charismatic and unconventional man 28 Reports from MBBS class reunions Melbourne Medical School Obituaries 08 Appointments, Departures, News & Events 30 Tributes and memories The new MD In Brief 11 The place of research in our medical course 34 Congratulations, student prizes & awards, books From the Students The Physick Gardener 12 Student experiences around the globe 37 Aspects of the Apothecary’s World Focus on Student Prizes 17 Melbourne Medical School scholarships and prizes Front: Melbourne University Medical Graduates 1949. This is one of a The editor would like to thank ISSN 0814-3978 number of photographs of medical students and graduates held in the Darren Rath for designing Medical History Museum. this issue, John Bedovian © THE UNIVERSITY OF for his production assistance MELBOURNE 2010 If you have photographs or other memorabilia of your year you believe and Cara Schultz for her would interest the museum please contact the curator, Susie Shears on editorial assistance. T: (+61 3) 8344 9935 or E:
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