Endowments; Residents (Medicine); Medical education; Baltimore (Md.); Johns Hopkins Hospital. Osler Medical Service; Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919; Johns Hopkins Hospital
Format
correspondence
Genre
Business correspondence
Date
[between 1886 and 1919?]
Physical Description
microfilm, 16 mm, b&w
Note (Reel no.)
Reel 81
Note
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Osler Medical Clinic
Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet, FRS FRCP (/ˈɒzlər/; July 12, 1849 – December 29, 1919) was a Canadian physician and one of the four founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital. Osler created the first residency program for specialty training of phys icians, and he was the first to bring medical students out of the lecture hall for bedside clinical training. He has frequently been described as the Father of Modern Medicine and one of the 'greatest diagnosticians ever to wield a stethoscope'. Osler was a person of many interests, who in addition to being a physician, was a bibliophile, historian, author, and renowned practical joker. One of his achievements was the founding of the History of Medicine Society (previously section) of the Royal Society of Medicine, London... ...In 1889, he accepted the position as the first Physician-in-Chief of the new Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Shortly afterwards, in 1893, Osler was instrumental in the creation of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and became one of the school's first professors of medicine. Osler quickly increased his reputation as a clinician, humanitarian, and teacher. He presided over a rapidly expanding domain. In the hospital's first year of operation, when it had 220 beds, 788 patients were seen for a total of over 15,000 days of treatment. Sixteen years later, when Osler left for Oxford, over 4,200 patients were seen for a total of nearly 110,000 days of treatment." [SOURCE: "William Osler." Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Osler. Accessed 9 Oct. 2018.] "The Osler Medical Service at Johns Hopkins University, founded by William Osler, was a full-time, sleep-in residency system whereby staff physicians lived in the Administration Building of the Hospital. The residency was open-ended, and long tenure was the rule. Doctors spent as long as seven or eight years as residents, during which time they led a restricted, almost monastic life. It involved the idea of clinical clerkships – having third and fourth year students work with patients on the wards. It pioneered the practice of bedside teaching, making rounds with a handful of students." [SOURCE: "The Osler Medical Service." Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Osler_Medical_Service. Accessed 9 Oct. 2018.]