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San Francisco: Departments
Medicine
Microbiology
Medicine
One of the nine branches of study within
the new "medical department" of the University in 1873 was clinical
medicine, under the chairmanship of Professor C. M. Bates. His aims
were to impart to the student practical knowledge and to give a
faithful description of diseases, their etiology, symptoms, diagnosis,
prognosis, lesions, and treatment.
In 1875, a third year was added to the curriculum.
In the Division of Medicine, lectures and clinics in clinical medicine
and physical diagnosis were given in the second year. Courses in
the theory and practice of medicine, clinical medicine, and physical
diagnosis were offered in the third year. Early in the history of
the school, one year of general or rotating internship was added
to the medical curriculum, but purely medical internships were not
adopted until the 1920's. The first mention of a resident program
in the specialty of medicine is in the catalogue for 1910.
Many able men helped in the development of the
Division of Medicine (later called the Department of Medicine).
Dr. Herbert C. Moffitt joined the faculty in 1898 as professor of
the principles and practice of medicine. He also served as dean
of the school for many years. Under his stimulus the Division of
Medicine soon expanded to include such distinguished physicians
as Herbert Allen, George Ebright, LeRoy Briggs, Eugene Kilgore,
Milton Lennon, Walter Alvarez, Ernest Falconer, and many others.
Dr. William Watt Kerr, who served as professor
of medicine for 25 years until his death in 1917, was characterized
as "one of the most inspiring men I ever met. He appeared to be
a man of fabulous clinical ability and great personal charm." Dr.
Kerr graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1915 and joined the
Hooper Foundation staff in 1916. While there, he was invited by
Moffitt to join the faculty of the Department of Medicine. Kerr
rose rapidly from assistant in medicine to professor and chairman
of the department in 1927. In 1939, Kerr inaugurated the Ceremony
of the Gold-Headed Cane, reviving the tradition of the famous eighteenth-century
British physicians who carried the renowned gold-headed cane now
resting in the Royal College of Physicians in London.
Kerr retired in 1951, and subsequent chairmen
of the department were Dr. Theodore Althausen (1951-56), Dr. Henry
Brainerd (1956-64), and Dr. Lloyd Hollingsworth Smith, Jr.
From a faculty consisting of one professor in
1864, the department grew to include a full-time academic staff
of over 30 and a visiting clinical staff of several hundred physicians.
Many specialties came to prominence within the department which
were unknown one hundred years ago--endocrinology, oncology, hematology,
electrocardiography, etc., as well as the myriad laboratory diagnostic
aids that enable the physician of the twentieth century to make
an accurate diagnosis and institute effective treatment. source
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Microbiology
When the first year and a half in medicine
was taught on the Berkeley campus, courses offered by the Department
of Bacteriology included academic students as well as medical students.
In the fall of 1928 the Department of Bacteriology of the School
of Medicine, derived from the Berkeley unit, became a separate department
along with the Department of Pathology, leaving only the first medical
year at Berkeley.
At that time the Affiliated Colleges in San Francisco
were autonomous and the dental pharmacy, and nursing faculties managed
their own courses in bacteriology. However, early in the 1930's,
the Department of Bacteriology took over the teaching of its subject
to pharmacy, dental, dental hygiene, and nursing students, thus
serving all four schools on the campus. The School of Nursing changed
its policies after two years, but the department continued to serve
three schools on the San Francisco campus. The title, Department
of Bacteriology, was changed to Department of Microbiology about
1950. A graduate program was initiated in 1962. In 1965-66 the department
had 128 medical students, ten graduate students, 86 pharmacy students,
and 104 professional students in the School of Dentistry.
During the 40 years of the department's existence
radical developments have occurred in microbiology. New techniques
in the 1930's brought about new approaches to the study of viruses.
The discovery of antibiotics radically altered the status of infectious
disease during the 1940's. Interests were heavily focused on the
use of bacteria as tools in the study of genetics in the 1950's;
and, currently, immunochemical techniques used as means for the
study of chemical structure have spread to various departments.
Along with other features of microbiology, these amplifications
were significant in developments of the concept of "molecular biology,"
a viewpoint which considered all cells from a dynamic physicochemical
point of view. source
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