A 56-year-old medical calendar from McGill
opens a fascinating window on medicine's past
A. Mark Clarfield, MD, CCFP, FRCPC; Ora Paltiel, MDCM, MSc, FRCPC
A. Mark Clarfield and his wife, Ora Paltiel, are on staff in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University. Currently they live in Jerusalem, where Dr. Clarfield is director of academic affairs at the Sarah Herzog Memorial Hospital and chief of geriatrics and chronic diseases at the Ministry of Health in Jerusalem. Dr. Paltiel is with the Department of Social Medicine and Hematology of the Hadassah Medical Organization.
Canadian Medical Association Journal 1995; 153: 1343-1346
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Abstract
McGill University's Faculty of Medicine has a long history of excellence. An examination of one of its more mundane documents, the student calendar from 1939--40, provides an instructive look at the roots of this excellence and indicates how much things have changed and how much remains unchanged after more than half a century.
Résumé
La Faculté de médecine de l'Université McGill a une longue histoire d'excellence. Un coup d'oeil sur un de ses documents les plus banals, l'annuaire des étudiants de 1939--1940, donne un aperçu révélateur des origines de son excellence et rappelle à quel point l'université a changé en même temps qu'elle est demeurée la même depuis plus d'un demi-siècle.
CMAJ November 1, 1995 (vol 153, no 9)
/ JAMC le 1er novembre 1995 (vol 153, no 9)