94455 CUPOLA summer 09:aaCUPOLA summer 04 7/6/09 7:40 AM Page 1 THE CUPOLA The Bulletin of The Medical Alumni Association of The Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital Summer 2009 Bassett Healthcare, Cooperstown, New York Vol. XI, No. VIII PRESIDENT’S THE COLUMBIA-BASSETT MEDICAL SCHOOL MESSAGE Class of 2014 to Launch a New Era in Medical Education News headlines carried the announcement this spring that Bassett Healthcare and Columbia University Medical Center have joined forces to launch a new med- ical school program and establish Bassett as a clinical campus of Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, taking a more-than-60 -year relationship to the next level. The partnership is aimed at addressing the rural physi- cian shortage and the need for Left to right: NYS Health Commissioner Richard Daines. M.D.; Dr. Streck; Dr. Weil; medical education to better align Dr. Morris, chairman, Bassett Board of Trustees and alumni professor emeritus of itself with the health care needs of clinical medicine, Columbia; Dr. Lee Goldman, dean of Faculties of Health Sciences Kenneth W. Wilkins, M.D. the 21st century. & Medicine, Columbia; Congressman Michael Arcuri, 24th District, New York. Bassett President and CEO model, “this is the only example America, not so typical in the urban Greetings from Cooperstown William F. Streck, M.D., welcomed among all the Columbia-affiliated centers such as New York. We and New Bern. Summer is really the crowd gathered at The Otesaga institutions where the hospital and believe Bassett serves, therefore, as here: hot as can be in North during a May 11 event formally the physicians have their incentives a perfect example of how we can Carolina, full of excitement in announcing the partnership. “The aligned.” Morris concluded by say- train a cadre of students to see upstate New York. Beyond the usual country spends $2.3 trillion of a ing, “Bassett’s integrated academic what medicine should look like in good-byes and hellos to departing more-than-$14 trillion economy on health system is the model of the the future,” he said. and arriving House Staff, Bassett has health care amidst an environment future. It’s been here at Bassett for The announcement comes at a entered a new chapter in its affilia- of physician shortages and demands a long time. Exposing students to it time when the Association of tion with College of Physicians and for health care reform,” he said. and giving them in-depth experi- American Medical Colleges is call- Surgeons at Columbia University. “Part of the solution going forward ence will be a remarkable differ- ing for a 30 percent increase in U.S. My main worry about medicine is in the field of education, particu- ence for students at Columbia.” medical school enrollment by 2015 these days is the future of primary larly innovation in medical educa- Lee Goldman, M.D., dean of the to address the nation’s physician care. One hopes that the addition tion. That’s why Columbia and Faculties of Health Sciences and shortage, which is especially severe of medical students in a rural set- Bassett have partnered to create Medicine, Columbia University in rural America. At the same time, ting will encourage some of them the Columbia-Bassett program.” Medical Center, said the new pro- the nation’s medical schools are to practice primary care some- Thomas Q. Morris, M.D., chair- gram will offer students greater being called upon to explore ways where. man of the Bassett Board of continuity, by allowing them to fol- to better equip physicians to deal Enjoy the other articles in this Trustees and alumni professor low a full panel of patients, getting a with the issues driving the debate issue of The Cupola, and please let emeritus of clinical medicine at sense of what it means to be over health care reform, including us hear from you. Many of us turn Columbia, told those gathered that, someone’s physician over time. “It’s quality, safety, efficiency and cost first to the Family Album, and it’s as a fully salaried, closed-staff a model that’s very typical in rural management. always fun to see where folks are New York State Health now. So, keep in touch! `Building the modern doctor of the future is a task Commissioner Richard Daines, Kenneth W. Wilkins, M.D. that falls uniquely to places like Bassett.’ M.D., who spoke at the May 11 President, Board of Directors —Henry Weil, M.D. Bassett Medical Alumni Association COLUMBIA to page 3 94455 CUPOLA summer 09:aaCUPOLA summer 04 7/6/09 7:40 AM Page 2

THE CUPOLA is the newsletter of the Medical Alumni Association of The RURAL HEALTH CARE IN SPOTLIGHT Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital. The An estimated 62 million trade ideas on what’s Association was founded to provide support and recommendations to people in this country call working, what’s not and Bassett Medical Education rural America home and what needs to change. We Department; to assist in recruiting yet, while 25 percent of the know, for instance, that medical students, house staff and attending staff; and to provide financial population lives in rural rural hospitals, in order to support to develop and enhance America, only 9 percent of remain viable, must provide medical education at Bassett. physicians practice in rural surgical care. Yet, there is a The Medical Alumni parts of the country. That severe shortage of rural Association of The Mary Imogene issue, as well as others general surgeons. In this Bassett Hospital related to providing health conference, we heard Officers care in rural America, meaningful dialogue on pos- Kenneth W. Wilkins, Jr., M.D. President brought more than 100 sible solutions to that and Peter R. Gray, M.D. people to Cooperstown other issues confronting us Secretary-Treasurer from May 17-18 for the as we look to meeting the Douglas M. DeLong, M.D. fourth annual Rural Surgery needs of rural communities Executive Vice President Conference sponsored by in the 21st century.” Board of Directors Bassett Healthcare’s The Mithoefer Center Joseph W. Bell, M.D. for Rural Surgery was Jacqueline A. Bello, M.D., Mithoefer Center for Rural Past President Surgery at The Otesaga Steven Stain, M.D., left, receives the ceremonial bat from David established in 2003 in Wendy Bonnett Bergman, M.D. Resort Hotel. Fourteen fac- Borgstrom, M.D., Bassett’s Surgery Residency director, at the order to respond to the James Bordley IV, M.D. Mithoefer Center for Rural Surgery’s fourth annual Rural issues facing rural general Rodman D. Carter, M.D. ulty members from across John L. Chamberlain, M.D. the country presented Surgery Conference. surgeons throughout the Steven S.T. Ching, M.D. their views on issues per- doesn’t also address access capabilities so that doc- United States. The center’s James T. Dalton, M.D. research efforts are Merideth Davis, M.D. taining to education, to care, he concluded. tors who practice in rural John S. Davis, M.D. research and the current The symposium also areas don’t feel profes- focused on: describing the Katrina Harris, D.O. state of rural surgery in the tackled the issue of recruit- sionally isolated rural surgical work force; Craig A.N. Henson, M.D. determining rural surgeons’ Alan J. Kozak, M.D. United States. ing and retaining rural gen- Steven Heneghan, M.D., Jack L. Martin, M.D. Brock Slabach, senior eral surgeons. Among the Bassett’s Surgeon-in-Chief practice patterns; discerning Erin McKay, D.O. vice president of the suggestions proposed at and co-director of the the educational needs of Karen E. McShane, M.D. rural surgeons; examining Maria Mendez, M.D., Past President National Rural Health the conference: Mithoefer Center for Rural William J. Mitchell, M.D. Association, noted there is • Provide help with medical Surgery, said, “The sympo- the financial impact of sur- John E. Olson, M.D. a lot of discussion about education loan repayment sium is another tool to gical services on rural hos- Anush Patel, M.D. pitals; improving rural resi- Donald O. Pollock, M.D. health care reform that • Expand residency pro- provide physicians, Mark Reichelderfer, M.D. centers on universal cover- grams that have a rural researchers, hospital admin- dents’ access to high-quality Sarah M. Ricketts, M.D. age. “But, people’s health track istrators and medical stu- surgical care, and reducing Eric Rubin, M.D. disparities in access to high- G. Theodore Ruckert IV, M.D. cannot be improved with- • Create equity in reim- dents with information and Rory A. Sears, D.O. out access to care. Access bursements networking opportunities quality surgical care in Deborah E. Sentochnik, M.D. remains the gravest con- • Create tax incentives for related to providing rural underserved areas. Timothy S. Whitaker, M.D. For more information Randall S. Zuckerman, M.D. cern for rural America,” doctors who agree to live care in our communities. said Slabach. The dialogue and work in rural com- It’s a great way for those in visit www.centerforrural- Ex Officio ■ William F. Streck, M.D. around health care reform munities the business of providing surgery.org. President & CEO and coverage is useless if it • Improve telemedicine health care in rural areas to Charlotte Hoag Administrative Director, Medical Education BASSETT, FOX PARTNER ON ORTHOPEDICS Mary Wiswell Medical Education Assistant Bassett orthopedic surgeons began seeing patients May gery, as well as provide surgical services to patients during THE CUPOLA is published three times a 6 at the FoxCare Center in Oneonta as part of shared some emergency room coverage periods.” year. Please send comments and news, service agreement between A.O. Fox Memorial Hospital Dr. Carlton Rule, A.O. Fox’s executive vice president, including change of address information to: Editor, The Cupola, Office of Medical and Bassett Healthcare. As a result of that agreement, Medical Affairs, said, “The sharing of services is a very posi- Education, Bassett Healthcare, One Atwell Road, Cooperstown, NY 13326 Bassett providers will see patients in clinic once a week at tive development for the community because it maintains or e-mail to: [email protected] FoxCare. care in the Oneonta area, enhances the quality of services, John S. Davis, M.D. “This is an important step forward and the first piece provides convenient access and enhances physician recruit- Editor of the shared service proposal announced last November,” ment. As we launch the orthopedic component of the Lisa Miller Assistant Editor said Bassett Chief of Surgery Steven Heneghan, M.D., “In shared service discussion, we continue working on devel- Anne Geddes-Atwell addition, we anticipate that Bassett orthopedic surgeons oping areas of cooperation for cardiac and cancer care as Design & Production will operate on patients from these clinics who need sur- well.” ■

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MEDICAL STUDENTS FIND HUMANITIES PROJECTS REWARDING From fictional monologues between Brian Hwang said his project of sketching Chekhov and Shakespeare to sketches of patients began as a way to decompress, but patients, Columbia University students are doing evolved into a meaningful tool. “As I continued to some amazing creative projects during their sketch, I realized that it began to change the way I Bassett rotations. related to patients in the clinic, the way I remem- Under the direction of Alan Kozak, M.D., bered them (both as a person and as a patient), Bassett has included a humanities component in and even the way I approached their medical its medical education program for more than 15 issues,” he said. “I realized that the way a patient years. At the end of their Bassett rotations, third- greets a physician, talks, sits in a chair, buttons the year medical students are asked to present a cre- shirt, makes hand gestures and interacts with family ative project related to their experience in the members all conveyed interesting and sometimes primary care clinic. The first projects were most- important information about the person and his or ly written pieces, many of which were later com- her medical/psychiatric issues that may not be evi- piled in the acclaimed “Let Me Listen to Your dent in the chief complaint or in the charts. Heart” anthology edited by David Svahn, M.D., “This, of course, helped me with the sketch- and Dr. Kozak. es, but more importantly, helped me connect to Recent projects have encompassed art, music the patients better, because I could bring up cer- and theater, including Brahms piano intermezzos, tain things about them based on my observation dance choreography, watercolor sketches and a that patients would want to talk about, and play about primary care written and performed Dr. Alan Kozak displays some of the humanities proj- become more observant and cognizant of phys- by three members of the Bard Hall Players, ects done by medical students. ical signs and symptoms. … At the end of the Columbia’s theater group. The projects are as day, I was able to vividly remember the patients diverse as the students – and patients – them- dents that you otherwise might view as unidi- and their stories and issues (and even lab selves. One student created a sketchbook with mensional, interested only in the science of med- results) and synthesize a collective impression of portraits of patients he had seen in the clinic; icine and its relation to patient care. You really them which I transferred into my drawings. It another wrote a computer program creating a realize and appreciate their depth and the special was an uninterrupted 20-30 minutes of contem- visual depiction of the physician’s task of using attributes that will make them extraordinary, car- plation totally dedicated to one patient. many pieces of data to arrive at a diagnosis. ing physicians.” Sometimes, to my amazement, this would help Dr. Kozak, who himself has a strong humani- Students say the project was a valuable part me think of different or new ways to address ties background (he earned his undergraduate of their experience. “I feel medical school is so their concerns and medical problems, which I degree in foreign and comparative literature) furiously rushed to cram the sometimes-dry, discussed with my attending the next morning.” likens the humanities focus in Medicine to frost- but always crucial, biological sciences into us,” For Pelton Phinizy, who transformed a soccer ing on a cake, lending elegance and beauty to a said Tim Rice, who did his project in April, “that ball into a “memory ball” filled with illustrations foundation rooted in science. “Basic science is it’s easy to become too wrapped up in science of his experience upstate, the project was a very important,” he says “but we can’t forget the and, as a result, lose sight of the basic human refreshing change of pace. “As med students, I importance of the human element that has to be peace and happiness which unite us all as people.” think we all get caught up and trapped in all the factored in as we take care of our patients.” Rice drew on his art history background to classes and memorization that we forget what’s From a teaching perspective, it allows him to create a gridwork of photos of patients he met going on in our lives and in our world,” he said. form a more personal connection. “It taps into as a student of Gerald Landry, M.D., in the “It’s nice to lift my head out of a book and take a the special sensitivities and talents of the stu- Oneonta clinic. look around every once in a while.” ■

Bassett curriculum is to turn out skilled clinicians 10 to 14 top-ranking students the opportunity to COLUMBIA from page 1 who are passionate about patient care, good apply to the Columbia-Bassett program. event, said the Columbia-Bassett program is the communicators, adept at evidence-based medi- Recruitment will begin this year for the Class of 2014. Thanks to the generous support of the kind of creative solution needed and will comple- cine, and accountable to society as responsible Scriven Foundation, students who enroll in the ment the state’s efforts to entice doctors not managers of the health care system.” program will receive $30,000 per year in tuition just to pass through rural New York, but to Walter Franck, M.D., Columbia’s senior asso- support. Graduates will receive the standard establish roots here. ciate dean for the Bassett affiliation, notes that Columbia diploma. Students will spend their first the students who participate in the new program Henry Weil, M.D., Columbia’s assistant dean year and a half at Columbia’s Manhattan campus. will experience all disciplines of clinical medicine, for education, Bassett Healthcare, told those Bassett will be the host campus from the middle gathered, “Building the modern doctor of the ranging from the broad spectrum of primary care of the student’s second year until graduation. ■ future is a task that falls uniquely to places like to the wide variety of subspecialties in medicine. Bassett. The problems facing health care today “Our goal is to educate them in excellent prac- To learn more about the Columbia-Bassett Program, are problems of humanism, of safety and of evi- tice taught in a rural setting.” go to www.columbia-bassett.org dence-based care. …The goal of the Columbia- Columbia will expand its class size and offer

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PHYSICIAN’S ASSISTANT TO MED STUDENT TO RESIDENT: BASSETT’S GOOD FORTUNE Battle Creek to Cooperstown. west Wisconsin (The Marshfield Humanism and Excellence in Icon to icon. Everyone associated Clinic). While working with the only Teaching Award, awarded by third- with Bassett has his or her own surgeon in an area of greater than a year medical students from story of serendipity, blind luck or county, he also had occasion to bail Columbia University, as a resident cunning that enabled them to out Doug DeLong on more than who exhibited particularly strong receive some of their medical train- one occasion in the ER with the teaching skills and was a role model ing in Cooperstown. Craig Henson, usual array of minor and major for compassionate, relationship-cen- M.D., just-finished as chief resident trauma that one would expect in a tered care. He remains a member in Surgery, a member of the Bassett rural environment. (Think chain saw of the Bassett Medical Alumni medical alumni board and now an lacerations and hunting accidents.) Board, having been chosen in 2004 attending physician in General Several years into this endeavor, as a resident member. Surgery at Bassett, took a particu- and following the trail blazed by his When looking to life after larly circuitous route. surgical collaborator’s daughter, Bassett, Craig says he almost took a Craig obtained a Bachelor of Craig was off to medical school in position in the Adirondacks to Science from the University of Ireland. He received his MB, BCh closely replicate his North Woods Craig Henson, M.D. Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1992. After a and BAO from University College experience, but in the end, opted to year’s work in the University of Dublin in 2004. His exposure to in surgery and to buff his CV for stay in C’town as the newest Michigan’s Department of Nuclear European life never deterred his residency. attending in Surgery. The journey Medicine as a research assistant, he goal of being a rural general sur- As the heavens would divine, has not been without its up and obtained physician assistant certifi- geon, however. On Doug’s advice, both Craig and Bassett rated each downs, but, through a combination cation from Cornell in 1995. He he spent one summer in “America’s other highly, and he started his stint of hard work, persistence and opti- then took a position working for a favorite village” doing a rotation in as a surgery resident; selected as mism, Craig and his wife, Lisa, a PA plastic surgeon in Manhattan. One the new ICU. Smitten with the chief resident, he finished up in June in the Bassett Emergency year of rich doyens was apparently beauty of the place and the quality 2009. As noted in the summer 2008 Department, look forward to calling enough, and he took a job in a rural of the instruction, he returned the issue of The Cupola, Craig received Cooperstown home for a long regional medical center in north- subsequent summer for a rotation The Arnold P. Gold Foundation time. ■ BASSETT BIDS FAREWELL TO 21 RESIDENTS GOLDEN AWARD Bassett thanks 21 University of Mississippi Hospital, Park Ridge, Ill. Robert Swan, M.D., RECIPIENTS physicians who have com- Medical Center, Jackson, Rebecca Lenhard, M.D., Ophthalmology ANNOUNCED pleted their residency Miss. Radiology Residency, , Residency, Albany Medical programs. The following Gregory Gardner, Albany Medical Center, Center, Albany, N.Y. The 2009 Golden Apple either enter practice or M.D., Radiology Albany, N.Y. Sofia Syed, awards, given by the residents begin an advanced resi- Residency, Fletcher Allen Mellissa Mahabee, M.B.,B.S.,M.P.H., Internal to the faculty members they dency/fellowship program: Health Care, Burlington, M.D., Medicine/Pediatrics Medicine Residency, felt were their most out- Kenneth Bark, M.D., Vt. Residency, Loma Linda University of Missouri- standing teachers, were pre- Colon and Rectal Surgery Joseph Gorodenker, University, Loma Linda, Columbia, Columbia, Mo. sented to M. Bernadette Fellowship, Presbyterian/ M.D., Diagnostic and Calif. UT Southwestern, Dallas, Interventional Radiology Marie-Eve Noel, M.D., Ken-Lin Tai, M.D., Ryan, M.D., and Eric Mooney, Texas. Residency, Internal Ophthalmology Preventive Medicine M.D., (Surgery); and to James Kimberly Blasius, Medicine, George Residency, Ira G. Ross Eye Residency, Johns Kruse, M.D., (Medicine). M.D., Anesthesiology Washington University Institute, Buffalo, N.Y. Hopkins/Bloomberg Bassett residents and stu- Residency, Mt. Sinai Hospital, Washington, D.C. Resmi Rajan, M.B., School of Public Health, dents recently honored two Hospital, New York, N.Y. Craig Henson, M.D., B.S., Hospitalist, Eastern Baltimore, Md. of their own with the Golden Elizabeth Carpenter, Attending Surgeon, Maine Medical Center, Savitree Talhapak, Stethoscope awards. The M.D., Radiology Bassett Healthcare, Bangor, Maine. M.D., Nephrology Surgery students chose Residency, New York Cooperstown, N.Y. Narasimha Swamy Fellowship, University of University, New York, N.Y. Seth Iverson, M.D., Raju, M.B.,B.S.,M.P.H., Kenneth Bark, M.D., as the Pittsburgh Medical Miriam Cerutti, D.O., Radiology Residency, Hospitalist, Eastern Maine Center, Pittsburgh, Penn. senior resident they felt was Hospitalist, Cape Cod Rochester General Medical Center, Bangor, Kara Willenburg, their best teacher. The Health Care, Hyannis, Hospital, Rochester, N.Y. Maine. Internal Medicine residents Mass.; Hyeong Joong Kim, Mandip Rawla, M.D., Infectious Disease selected Niyutchai (“Tone”) Niyutchai M.D., Internal Medicine M.B.,B.S., Hospitalist, Fellowship, University of Chaithongdi, M.D. Chaithongdi, M.D., Residency, Advocate Norfolk Hospital, Rochester Medical Endocrinology Fellowship, Lutheran General Norfolk, Va. Center, Rochester, N.Y. ■

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ALUMNI BOARD MEMBER PROFILE: JAMES BORDLEY IV, M.D.

James Bordley IV, M.D., was elected to the James (Jamie) Bordley V, a current third-year P&S Bassett Alumni Board of Directors in October medical student, Jim mentioned that his research 2007, during a career at Bassett that began as a into family genealogy had uncovered at least two Columbia P&S medical student, followed by a other Dr. James Bordley forebears. Jim had residency in Bassett’s General Surgery Residency planned to go into Internal Medicine, but it was (chief resident 1974-5). his fourth-year student experience on Bassett’s His fellow chief surgery resident, Russ Dilley, surgery service that made him change his mind, was also from P&S, and there were 11 other P&S an experience in surgery diametrically different graduates on Bassett’s house staff that year. from what he felt was offered to medical stu- There followed a fellowship in biliary and pan- dents at P&S. He recalled that in 1973 he was creatic surgery with Dr. Thomas White at the the first surgery resident at Bassett to learn University of Washington in Seattle and a return endoscopic techniques (from the GI group), a to Bassett as an attending surgeon in 1977, a breakthrough concept in the training of sur- position he continues to hold as the highly geons, thanks to permission from Surgeon-in- respected current “dean” of Bassett’s general Chief David Blumenstock, M.D., and “Bassett’s surgery section. flexibility.” Jim Bordley grew up in Cooperstown from This was opposed to the norm in other sur- age 4; his father, James Bordley, III, M.D., was gery residency programs and five years ahead of Bassett’s director from 1947-76 and served on Left to right: James Bordley V, James Bordley III, M.D., the Surgery Residency Review Board’s decision the Board of Trustees from 1947 to the time of and James Bordley IV, M.D. to make endoscopy a requirement for the train- his death in 1979. Jim hadn’t known his father ing of general surgeons. Jim’s resultant endoscop- until he was 3, he explains, “because I was born field hospital, and the regular army guy got so ic expertise logically segued to his performance six months after he left for the second world nervous that he got drunk. So MacArthur arrived of Bassett’s first laparoscopic cholecystectomy, war, and he was gone for 3-1/2 years, becoming and found this guy drunk and said, ‘Who’s the the first in the upstate region and the start of the the commanding officer of the Johns Hopkins second in command?’ It was my father, and he current and ever-expanding wave of laparoscopic medical unit, which was in Australia, New Guinea, said, ‘You’re in command.’ That was it for the procedures at Bassett. As he contemplates retire- and then the Philippines. He was an internist, the regular army guy, and my father was in command ment down the line, Jim Bordley continues his chief of medicine, and he also originally had this of the unit for the rest of the war.” (Please see career as Bassett’s general surgeon par excel- fellow who was a regular army guy who was Bassett Looks Back on Page 6 for more on lence. their commander. They got to the Philippines, and James Bordley III, M.D.) Jim and his wife, Dianne, live in the village of General MacArthur staged an inspection to this In a recent interview with Jim and his son, Cooperstown. ■

BASSETT RESIDENT RECEIVES TEACHING AWARD POSITIONS AVAILABLE AT BASSETT Bassett surgical resident Rachel Wooldridge, M.D., has been selected by Columbia University’s third-year medical students as one of six outstanding Bassett Healthcare seeks physicians for the following posi- tions. Openings are at the Cooperstown Campus unless other- residents to receive the Arnold P. Gold Foundation’s Humanism and wise indicated. There are also openings for physician extenders Excellence in Teaching Award. Recipients are selected not only for exempla- and administrative positions. If you or anyone you know is inter- ry teaching skills but for their compassionate treatment of patients, families, ested, please contact Debra Ferrari, Medical Staff Affairs, at (607) students and colleagues. 547-6982 or [email protected] Dr. Wooldridge came to Bassett in July 2006 and plans on entering a breast fellowship following completion of her residency in June 2012. She is Anesthesiologist-in- Internist - Oneonta interested in pursuing medical mission work after her residency is finished, Chief/Director of Operative Obstetrician/Gynecologist Services preferably in Haiti, where she has already done some mission work. Obstetrician/Gynecologist - Anesthesiologist Hamilton When asked what this award meant to her, Dr. Wooldridge responded, Cardiologist, Interventional “One of the highest honors is to be recognized for teaching others; the Ophthalmologist Dentist - Hamilton Orthopaedic Surgeon reward is the knowledge that you’ve made a positive impact on someone’s Dermatologist Orthopaedic Surgeon, Joint life.” ■ Emergency Medicine Physician Reconstruction Family Medicine Physician - Pathologist Hamilton THE BASSETT FAMILY ALBUM Family Medicine Physician - Pediatrician Hello out there. What’s happened to the Bassett Family Album? For this Sherburne Pediatrician - Herkimer issue, it’s simply dried up. Some of us feel that it’s the most important Gastroenterologist Psychiatrist, Adult feature of The Cupola. There are well over a thousand of you out there. Hospitalist Psychiatrist, Child So PLEASE resume sending us updates and photos for the Fall/ Winter Hospitalist - Hamilton Radiation Oncologist issue and beyond. —The Editor Internist - Herkimer Radiologist

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BASSETT LOOKS BACK THE ORIGINS OF THE James Bordley III, M.D., had been BASSETT-COLUMBIA recruited from John Hopkins UNIVERSITY AFFILIATION University to be Dr. MacKenzie’s Bassett’s affiliation with successor as Bassett’s director, and Columbia University has been on a one of Dr. Bordley’s stipulations was steady, slowly-evolving track since that a formal affiliation be estab- 1927, when Bassett Hospital lished between Bassett and reopened. The institution’s first two Columbia University. Dr. directors were recruited from MacKenzie’s last annual report Columbia University’s faculty: sur- noted that “the final step in the geon James Greenough, M.D., fol- development of the affiliation was lowed by George MacKenzie, M.D. taken in the spring (of 1947) when In 1931, Elizabeth Palmer, M.D., a George MacKenzie, M.D., 1934 James Bordley III, M.D., 1960 the faculty of the College of graduate of The College of becomes in a small way a teaching University has continued in opera- Physicians and Surgeons and the Physicians and Surgeons, was institution and an adjunct of the tion. Again this summer a group of Trustees of Columbia University by appointed to Bassett’s resident staff. University. It has been agreed that students is receiving instruction in formal resolutions made the hospi- Dr. MacKenzie’s July 1932 Annual this affiliation should begin in a medicine, surgery and pediatrics, for tal an affiliated institution. Thus the Report states, “Another evidence of somewhat informal manner and be which, if satisfactory standing is teaching program offered at the the increasing reputation of the allowed to develop in any ways that obtained, they will be granted credit hospital ceased to be extracurricu- hospital is the fact that this year we may seem advisable to both parties by Columbia University.” lar and became an optional course have had applications from a num- to the agreement. At the present The 1938 Annual Report notes in the medical curriculum of ber of students to study at the hos- time there are four students from that “With the material available in Columbia University.” The agree- pital during the summer. We have Columbia University taking medical the hospital and the staff we have, it ment was comprehensive and accordingly taken four students rep- and surgical work at the hospital. is apparent that students receive included that “the University will resenting Johns Hopkins, Columbia The work here will be counted by training here which they value highly.” appoint to appropriate academic and the Albany Medical College for the University as work done By 1945, “the number of (P&S) positions certain members of the periods of two to three months.” toward fulfilling the requirements students applying for this work has hospital staff who are directly The 1936 Annual Report notes for the medical degree. It is believed steadily increased and already nearly responsible for the instructional that “another development of that this affiliation will work benefi- all openings for the next 8 months importance in the work of the hos- cially for the hospital in many ways, have been filled.” Thus, despite program in the hospital.” pital is an arrangement which has not the least of which is the stimu- wartime shortages of all hospital per- In the ensuing 62 years, the affil- been made with Columbia lation for members of the Staff sonnel, “persistent efforts were made iation has flourished, with P&S med- University. As a result of conversa- from contact with alert students. In to extend and improve the education ical students steadily rotating to tions with the Dean, several mem- order to provide living quarters for of the students from the College of Bassett. Fast-forward to this year’s bers of the faculty of the College of these students, rooms have been Physicians and Surgeons who came exciting transition of Bassett Physicians and Surgeons, and with prepared in the north attic occu- to Cooperstown as Clinical Clerks Healthcare into an actual clinical the President of Columbia pied by the library stack room.” for periods of about two months.” campus of the College of Physicians University, an affiliation has been The 1937 Annual Report stated The next and signal inter-institu- and Surgeons, as featured on Page 1 entered into whereby the hospital that “the affiliation with Columbia tional event took place in 1947. of this issue of The Cupola. ■ THE CUPOLA NONPROFIT ORG Bassett Healthcare US POSTAGE One Atwell Road PAID Cooperstown, NY 13326 Cooperstown, NY Permit #31 ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED