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For more information, please contact [email protected]. /1//$-­ z JA"~ 1969-1970 BULLETIN University of Vermont COLLEGE OF MEDICINE Bulletin of the University of Vermont • Volume 67 • February 15, 1970 • Number 16 Published by the University of Vermont, 85 South Prospect Street, Burlington, Vermont 05401, 25 times a year: once each in August and june; twice in October, November, December, j anuary and May; three times in February, March and April; and four times in September. Second Class postage paid at Burlington, Vermont 05401. 1969-1970 BULLETIN University of Vermont 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, had given 4,000 pounds sterling to help establish the institution. Instruc­ tion 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 tum of the century to take pupils. In 1804 he was appointed Lecturer in Chirurgery and Anatomy and, in 1809, Professor of Physic, Anatomy and Surgery at the University. M / .5- z Table of Contents Jf:.u I /l{;J 'io ~RCU I £S History of the College of lVIed icine 4 Student Information 7 Requirements for Admiss ion 7 Enrollment 8 Regulations for College of Medicine Students 8 Fees and Expenses II Housing 12 Dining Services 12 Scholarships and Loan Funds 12 Student R esearch Fellowships 14 lVIed ical College Program and Objectives 15 New Curriculum 15 Graduate Medical Education 17 Research 17 Teaching Facilities ~0 Hospital 20 Office of Instructional R esources 22 Division of Photography 22 The Departments in the College of Medicine 24 Anatomy 25 Biod1emistry 28 Community Medicine 30 1\ fed ical Microbiology 32 Medicine 34 Dermatology 36 Neurology 37 Obstetrics and Gy necology 38 Ophthalmology 40 Orthopedic Surgery . 4 1 Pathology and Oncology 42 2 ANDRE:AE VESALII OPERA.... -p-- OMNIA ANATOMICA CHIRURGlCA" HU.M.\ NS~u~~ f~H \.\-v l ~ · -:;....cwr.:--,..,;..- · ...... IU,,"'lt.U..UI SlfCfalrD fiLIIINI ur.•f!Jt~ •n•••tr• ~i ;:.:·. ~.:~:::::,: : ~ J-.. Pediatrics 44 Pharmacology 46 Physiology a nd Biophysics 48 Psyc hi atry 51 Radiology 53 R ehabilitation Medicine 54 Surgery 56 Anesthesiology 57 Neurosurgery 57 0 tolaryngology 58 Pediatric Surgery 58 Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery 59 Urology 60 Medical Library 61 R egional Medical Program 62 Honors and Prizes 63 Lectures hips 66 Organizations 66 Administration and Faculty 68 Board of Trustees 69 Academic Divisions and Colleges of the U niversity 70 College of Medicine Administration 72 Standing Committees 72 Index of Faculty 74 Index of Staff 87 Graduates, 1969, and Internship Appointments 90 Register, 1969-70 92 Calendar, 1970-1971 98 3 History of the College of Medicine The first General Assembly o f the State of Vermont, co nve ned in 1791 , chartered The University of Vermont. Ira Allen, yo unger brother of Ethan Allen, had given 4,000 pounds sterling to help establi sh the institution. Instructio n was started in 1800 a nd the first class graduated four years later . Meanwhile Dr. J ohn Pomeroy for many years the leading phys icia n of Burlington, bega n around the turn of the ce ntury to take pupils. In 1804 he was appo inted Lec­ turer in Chirurgery and Anatomy a nd, in 1809, Professo r of Ph ys ic, A natomy a nd Surgery at the University. The pos ition carried no stipend nor did the institution eve n provide a room in wh ich to give instructio n. By 18 14 Pomeroy had so many students he co uld no lo nger accommodate them in his home and he consequently rented a n empty store in which he lectured to a class of 12. His son, J ohn N. Pomeroy (not a physician), added a co urse of lectures in chem istry in 18 16 a nd to these the townspeople occasionally came o ut of interest in th e demonstrations. In 1822 a faculty of 5 professors including John Pomeroy and Nathan R . Smith was assembled a nd the Trustees of The Un iversity of Vermont ruled that the pres ide nt might "confer medical degrees on such persons as shall attend the medical lectures and are recommended by th e medical professors a nd lecturers of th e U ni versity." Dr. Sm ith's father, the more famo us Dr. Nathan Smith a nd the founder of the medical colleges of Dartmouth, Bowdoin, a nd Yale, is sa id to have helped in the orga ni zatio n of the Vermont school. In the earl y years of the 19th ce ntury only a sma ll portio n of medica l ed ucation took place in the universities. T he part-time doctor of co lo ni al times had given way to the full·time professio nal physician but there was no legal regul a ti on of the prac­ tice of medicine. 1\fost degrees a nd ce rtifica tes, if they were obtained at all, were gra nted by the medical societies aft er the ca ndida te had se rved as an apprentice. William Beaumont, the Army Su rgeon whose ex periments on the phys iology of digestion as performed on the perso n of the French Ca nad ia n yo uth, Alexis St. Martin, formed the basis of th is scie nce, bega n his medical ca reer in Vermont. 11\lh il e still a school teacher in Plattsb urgh, N .Y., he is sa id to have paddled a ca noe across Lake Champlain to read in th e library of Dr. Pomeroy and la ter was ap­ prenticed to Dr. Benjamin Chandler of St. Albans. T he minutes of the Third M edi ca l Society of Vermont record that on th e seco nd Tuesday of June, 1812 Bea umont "presented himse lf for examinatio n in th e diflerent bra nches of th e med ica l profession"' and was approved. In th e la te 1820's a group of loca l physicians interested so me phila nthropica ll y­ minded residents of Burlington in buying Ja nel for a medica l colle&e building ad- 4 jace nt to the U ni ve rsity campus a nd in 1829 a tw o-story brick buil ding was built. In 1828 Benjamin Lincoln, the grandson of the famous revolutionary general of the sa me name, was in vited to Burlington to give a course of lectures in anatomy. L in coln had had a class ical education at Bowdoin and had been apprenticed to the fashionable and d istingui shed Dr. George Shattuck of Boston. Rustic a nd educa­ tionally unprepared as most of the Vermont students were, they were evidently en­ tra nced by Dr. L inco ln's beautiful demonstrations am\ th e clarity of his presenta­ tions. He was offered the chair of anatomy and although the U nive rsities of l\ !aryland and Bowdoin both solicited him he chose Vermont, perhaps because he "hoped to reali ze .... hi s idea of a medical school in this Un ive rsity without the hindrance of encrusted orga nic remains from old formati ons." L incoln soon became the leading light of the school which fl ouri shed for a few years. U nfortunately h e became ill a nd in 1834· went back to his home in Maine to d ie. T here were now two other medical sc hools in the State and an eco nomic depression was developing. In 1836 after h av ing granted 11 6 degrees in course and 24 ho norary ones, the College of Medicine closed its doors. There was a lapse until 1853 when after many tribulations, most of them financial, Drs. W. S. Thayer of Northfield and Walter Carpenter of Randolph succeeded in re-organizing the Medical College. Subscri ptions were soli cited from· the med ica l professo rs and the Burlington townspeple a nd Mrs. Thayer held a " fair" which netted $450.00. T he Un ive rsity provided a build ing (the same one which had been used by D r. Lincoln and whi ch stil l is in use, altho ugh for different purposes) on the academi c campus. Jn spite of competition from the schools in ' "' oodstock and Castleton in Vermont, a nd H anover, 1 .H., co urses were started and the school re­ ma ined viable largely through the efforts and perso nal and professional d istinction of Drs. Thayer a nd Carpenter, both of whom served success ive ly as Dean. The aver­ age student allendance from 1859 to 1878 was abou t 65. Then under the deansh ip of Dr. A. P. Grinnell there was a period of rapid expansion reaching a hi gh tide in 1884 when 10 1 yo ung men were graduated in l\Jedicine.