Cutting Back: The 80-hour Residency Work Week.
The residency training program is undergoing its most radical change since it was first conceived by William Osler in the 1890s. The new standards, designed to dramatically reduce resident work hours, were instituted this year by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. The action is certain to spark a lively debate among its past participants.
Alumnus Profile:Irving J. Taylor, '43M
The Adoring Son - Honoring They Father
On a spring day in 1939, a businessman and political force in Ellicott City purchased a psychiatric hospital. He named as partner his 20-year-old son, a first-year medical student at Maryland. Over the next 50 years, son Irving J. Taylor, ’43M, built one of the most progressive and reputable psychiatric hospitals on the East Coast—Taylor Manor Hospital. He transformed the 12-bed facility from a small, country operation to a 204-bed hospital with 500 employees at its peak.
Leadership Profile:Claudia Baquet, MD
A Medicine Woman for the 21st Century
A Medicine Woman for the 21st Century
A one-year stint as the medical school’s health care policy liaison with Annapolis and Washington in 1994 has lasted nearly a decade for Claudia Baquet, MD, the medical school’s associate dean for policy and planning. She carries another title not associated with Maryland—amateur volcanologist—and has watched as a village has been destroyed by red-hot lava. The Medical Alumni Association Honor Roll:
Each year in the Bulletin, the Medical Alumni Association recognizes thousands of alumni, faculty and friends who supported the annual fund during the past fiscal year. In this issue, we pay tribute to those whose gifts were received between July 1, 2002 and June 30, 2003.
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