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The Linacre QuarterlyVolume 9 | Number 1 Article 6January 1941Brooklyn Diocese Starts a Graduate MedicalSchoolBrooklyn TabletFollow this and additional works at: http://epublications.marquette.edu/lnqRecommended CitationBrooklyn Tablet (1941) "Brooklyn Diocese Starts a Graduate Medical School," The Linacre Quarterly: Vol. 9: No. 1, Article 6.Available at: http://epublications.marquette.edu/lnq/vol9/iss1/6THE LINAORE QUARTERLY BRQtpKL YN DIOCESE STARTS A GRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL After almost two years of con-certed ~ffort on the part of the Medical Board of St. Mary's Hos-pital, a program for a graduate medical school was presented to the BO~lrd of T'rustees several months I~go. This program was approved by the Board of Trus-tees and has received the hearty cooperat.ion of His Excellency, Bishop Thomas E. Molloy. The establishment of this school was possible because of a charter granted to St. Mary's Hospital in 1888 w4ich permitted the estab-lishment of a Medical School. The idea behind the organization of this school is to offer full facilities to the doctors connected with the hospital& of the Diocese of Brook-lyn and to all other doctors, re-gardless of creed, to improve their knowledg'e of medicine and sur-gery and to keep abreast with the newest developments in their re-spective iJelds. . The school will offer gradu-ate, post-graduate and cultural courses. The graduate courses are organized for the particular benefit or those men who wish to further equip themselves in their particular specialty. Post-grad-uate courses are mainly for men who wish to bring themselves up to date in general medicine and its allied subjects. This coming term the school will offer one cul-tural course. This course is very ambitiom.. Probably no similar course h~s been attempted before, certainly not in Metropolitan New York. The subject matter will be on Catholic ethical prillciples involved in medical practice, with particular reference to the field of obstetrics and gynecology. The course will be 8-10 lectures in length, the first three lectures being on general ethical princi-ples. Each succeeding lecture will deal with one particular problem, such as abortions, ectopics, etc. The lecturers will be men out-standipg in their field. Among the clergy who have already agreed to talk on ethical problems are Msgr. John A. Ryan, nev. John M. Cooper, Ph.D., and Father Farrell, all connected with the Catholic University in Wash-ington, and Rev. Edward Sweeney of the Diocesan Seminary of the Immaculate Conception at Hunt-ington. Other lectures in this course will be given by men of similar standing. Every effort will be made to maintain this school as a Diocesan Institution. All the Catholic hos-pitals of Brooklyn and Queens will become integral parts of the school. \Vhen it is remembered that there are over 2,600 beds in oUI' diocesan hospitals and that there are five thousand births annually in these hospitals, it may rendily be seen that this is a teaching ullit of vast possibilities. In addition 5G,00Q patients are treated ench yellr in the various Catholic clinics r " ... , · ' THE LINAORB QUARTERLY for a total of 164,000 visits. There is absolutely no reason why th~se v,.rious hospitals should not be fused into one educational unit while at the same time each hos-pital main~ains its own individual ideqtity. 4s Ii tirst step in this new edu-cational program of the diocese a new laboratory' is being erected at St. Mary's lIospital. One of the JTIost important units in this build-ing is to be a large dissection room, fully equipped with all mod-erp appliarwes and with adequate facilities for doctors who may be ta~ing courses in the anatomy of their different specialties, orin animal surgery. A large lecture allq delnonstration room will be on the second floor. This room will afford ample opportunity for all types pf class work in histology, embryology and pathology. If the interns of our Catholic hQspit~ls are to be educated ac-cording to modern concepts and al'e to be prepared for future positions of responsibility in our Catholic hospitals, they must be given special work far more ad-vl\nced than the teaching they ha ve received in the medical school~ . For admission to the group of specialists, special courses and special work in the basic sciences of anatomy, physi-ology, histology and pathology must be taken. The graduate school will answer this demand in #1nd Gynecology will open the school during the coming term. This particular department has been holding weekly organization meetings. Among the doctors co-operating are: Drs. Wilfred V. Egan and Vincent Mazzola of St. Peter's Hospital, Dr. Joseph Mc-Goldrick of Holy Family Hospi-tal, Drs. Edward Flemming and William Meagher of St. Cather-ine's Hospital, Drs. James P. Mc-Manus and James V. Rizzi of Mary Immaculate Hospital, Drs. Austin B. Johnson and Alfred F. Calvelli of St. Joseph's, Far Rock-away, Dr. Marius Abbene of Bushwick Hospital, and Drs. Ed-ward A. Keyes, Charles H. Lough-ran, Henry Goubeaud, Robert E. Wilson and Francis Doyle of St. Mary's Hospital. Dr. Keyes is to act as Dean of the Faculty and Doctor John A. Shields as Secre-tary-Treasurer. At a meeting which inaugurated this movement, Rev. Joseph F. Brophy, Diocesan Superintendent of Hospitals, was one of the speakers. In his address, he as-sured the doctors present that His Excellency, the Most Reverend Bishop, was keenly interested in the project and had made a sub-stantial contribution towards the laboratory building. The Bishop regards the new Graduate School as a diocesan enterprise and it is his wish that every diocesan hos-pital cooperate in this program of medical education. an adequate manner. 'rhe I)epartment of Obstetric!:, ... , : ::.:~ . ~.~,~~~~ .... -Brooklyn Tablet. i:"t"';; -' U\G liN,·,- :: ' ~'" ./ . \..V • f!r'f ~. · ·~-. /I? ~-<'" - 'f;:;"~\ f [' I' '.0 :., ,;i':",:!'t ,.~. ~ .. " :: ' , f'1 \' , 

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