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The New Haven Green: Heart of a City

Beaumont Medical Club LectureSeptember 14, 2012 5:00 p.m.Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical LibraryThe New Haven Green: Heart of a Cityby Ms. Karyl EvansProducer and DirectorKaryl Evans is a documentary film maker whose work has been recognized with five Emmy awards. Ms. Evans’ recent films have dealt with Connecticut history and include films about African-Americans in Connecticut, the Amistad revolt, and the Grove Street Cemetery. She was the producer and director of the recent film celebrating the 200th anniversary of Yale School of Medicine. Her presentation to the Beaumont club will be a discussion and a screening of her most recent film, a history of the New Haven Green.Ms. Evans is an Associate Fellow of Jonathan Edwards College and a member of the Beaumont Medical Club. Tea will be served at 4:30 in the Beaumont Room

Yale Students Going Global

New Exhibit on display in the Library foyer April 23 – June 18 2012 The Office of International Medical Student Education(OIMSE) OIMSE, established in 2006 by Deans Richard Belitsky and Robert Alpern, facilitates opportunities for medical students to experience medicine as it is practiced throughout the world and to enrich the learning environment at Yale School of Medicine by providing opportunities for students from international schools to participate in clinical electives. Yale Medical Students Medical students in their final year have the opportunity to participate in clinical clerkships abroad. Also, Yale School of Medicine and other professional schools offer courses and electives in global health. Visiting Medical Student Elective Program OIMSE supports a robust Visiting International Student Elective Program for international students coming to Yale to do clinical electives. The program receives between 450 and 500 applications a year, and accepts about 80 students. Why does one journey into the mountains of Peru? By Hale Season, YSM 2012 Three weeks ago I didn’t even know that I’d be anywhere other than New Haven this July, and yet here I am 50 miles west of Central America headed for Lima. I had known that I had wanted to go to South America for an international experience sometime this year – after 15+ years of Spanish classes, I really wanted to immerse myself in the language – but I didn’t think when I interviewed in June that anything would happen before the Spring at the very earliest. As luck would have it, however, there was a mission trip going to the impoverished mountains of Peru for the second week of July, and I was invited. It was truly quite exciting - 3 weeks ago I was told that if I could wing the arrangements and clear my schedule, I would be in the middle of nowhere just that quickly. Read more… For more information, visit the Office of International Medical Student Education.

Two Hundred Years of Medical Education at Yale

]On October 28, 1810, the Connecticut Legislature approved a charter to create a medical school at Yale. The Medical Institution of Yale College, now Yale University School of Medicine, was the sixth medical school in the United States. From a single rented building with five faculty members and no hospital in the state of Connecticut, the Yale School of Medicine, in association with Yale-New Haven Hospital, has grown to become a world-famous center for teaching, research, and clinical practice. It was only in the twentieth century, after affiliation with the New Haven Hospital, the forming of departments, and the full-time system, that Yale became a leader in biomedical research and clinical care. However, the mission to educate medical students goes back to the beginning of the school’s history. This final Bicentennial exhibit focuses on the Medical School’s teaching mission over the past 200 years. The roughly chronological exhibit has two parts. Part I in the Medical Library rotunda traces the fundamental changes in medical education from an eight-month supplement to apprenticeship in 1813 to the establishment of the Yale System of Medical Education in 1925-1931. Part II, from the 1930s to the present, is located in the lobby outside the Library. The exhibit is supplemented by original historical photographs and engravings in the hallway of the Library. All materials on display, unless otherwise noted, are from the Historical Library. “200 Years of Medical Education” is curated by Toby A. Appel, former John R. Bumstead Librarian for Medical History. The exhibit goes to September 11. It is in the Medical Library rotunda, hallway, and lobby.