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SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): History of UBC medical school RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-03-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Arun Garg, a third-year meical student at UBC, discusses: birth in India; PhD in bio-chemistry; childhood desire to be a doctor; drop outs; student motivations; clinical versus basic sciences; pre-requisites; health care a teaching; hospital standards; socialised medicine; school interviews; length of school year; first year feelings. TRACK 2: Women in medicine; ethnic groups; introduction of patient to first year; teaching technique; anatomy; workload; undergrad organisation; cadavers; electives; fourth year clerkship; senior clerkship; finance; fees; extra educational services.

CALL NUMBER: T2001:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dentistry Developments in BC PERIOD COVERED: 1950-1969 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-23 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dr. Yeo gives a brief description of his early education including the U of T dental school; after graduating in 1950, Dr. Yeo join the public health department in BC as a regional dental consultant; he describes equipment, offices and refinements. In 1951, he was assigned to the Cariboo Health Unit; he relates problems and changes there; after a year in graduate training at Michigan, Dr. Yeo joined the Metropolitan Health Unit as director of dental services; he describes the organisation and follow-up treatment; a discussion of the fluoridation issue; distribution of clinics and votes; arguments. TRACK 2: A summary of the uses of fluoride and alternatives available; Dr. Yeo mentions the distribution of services and minor problems and controversies. In 1964, the dental school at UBC opening. Dr. Yeo gives a description of the courses, practical experiences, length of courses; specializations and size of classes; this is followed by some statistical information on the number of dentists in BC and distribution and the idea of regional licensing; a description of the College of Dental Surgeons, the Dentistry Act, registry and qualifications and some changes in the number of registered dentists. CALL NUMBER: T2001:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dentistry Developments in BC PERIOD COVERED: 1960-1976 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-23 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: A discussion of the issue of Dental Mechanics and Technicians and the Dental Technicians Act; qualifications and licensing and the National Dental Examining Board; a discussion of the idea of dental insurance and proposed plans; Dr. Yeo discusses trends, preventions, group practices, para-dental professions; COT system; Saskatchewan dental nurse and specializations; a brief comparison of the size and composition of the UBC dental classes over its initial years including a discussion of women in dentistry; summary impression; the direction of dentistry in the coming years. [TRACK 2: blank?]

CALL NUMBER: T0247:0008 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): History of UBC Medical School : part 1 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1976-03-25 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Personal history; decision to become a doctor; Dr. Cuthbertson, G.P.; Dr. Oscar Ranta (older brother); sister in medicine; family anecdotes; summer work through 1929 with famous surveyor Eli Stewart; Toronto Medical School 1929, and the changing atmosphere there -- from clinical to research emphasis -- because of Dr. Banting. TRACK 2: Clinical Osler tradition vs. the new research tradition in 1930s at Toronto; class collegue Dr. Omand Solamdt; Drs. Banting and Best; Fred Banting's 1938-1939 public health course at Toronto, and as Connaught lab consultant; Dr. Ranta's work in immunology with Dr. Donald Fraser; Dr. Robert Defries; stories on Banting; effect of Banting on research in Canada, other Canadian medical researchers; polio vaccine and DR. Parker; the "swine flue" and present concern for 1977 epidemic; antibiotics (should be used "like a rifle"); disease and the public. CALL NUMBER: T0247:0009 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): History of UBC Medical School : part 2 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1976-04-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Internship; Dr. Beverley Hanna, Dr. Henry Dole (classmate who became Director of Toronto General Hospital); 1936 diptheria outbreak in York County; immunization and the "smell of diptheria"; Dr. Elliot, chest diagnostician; 1971 rise in Vancouver diptheria; "pale, pasty and poisoned" (1930s term); 1936 polio, scarlet fever, "prontosil"; discovery of dyes as medicine in Germany, 1930s. TR;ACK 2: Russian medicine 1917 on, medical refugees to Canada in 1930s; Koerner brothers inject patronage to Canadian research scene; house physician, St. Michael's, 1937; Toronto school of hygiene; Dr.; Don Fraser, immunologist; Dr. Robert Defries and Dr. Claude Dolman at Connaught lab (research); 1939 move to Vancouver; Connaught lab under Dr. Dolman; provincial lab plans at UBC (halted); World War; II Connaught lab work, lab animals; monkey escapades and capture without tranquilizer darts; animal attendants, 1940s; Dr. Ronny Havers (radiologist); Dr. Bjornesson (US arthritis institute head); Dr.; Bill Kocroft (VGH bacteriologist); Dr. Dolman in 1930s -- food poisoning research; anecdotes about food poisoning in BC; salmonella identification and typing; discovery of "salmonella Vancouver" in late 1940s at Connaught lab on Hornby Street. CALL NUMBER: T0247:0010 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): History of UBC Medical School : part 3 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1976-04-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Idea of UBC medical school; 1946 veteran-student pressure for a medical school, pre-med assoc[iates?], the debate for/against; Dr. Ranta spoke on CBC Radio and at UBC 1946-1947; general feeling "now is the time"; UBC president Dr. N.A.M. Mackenzie, Chancellor Hamber, Dr. Sherwood Lett (supporters); internal-external need; the financial "pie" at UBC; support in Vancouver and from Vancouver; Medical Association; education committee chairman Dr. Panton; Dr. George F. Strong -- character and history, his beliefs put forward strongly in a VMA-commissioned report on possibility of a UBC medical school; Dr. Dolman's study; report by the UBC Board of Governors, 1946; Dr. Strong proposed using existing Vancouver hospitals as teaching hospitals, while Dolman advocated an on-campus hospital; controversy; full-time vs. part-time practicing medical teachers; UBC medical school's standing in Canada; extended care hospital begun on campus, 1975. TRACK 2: Extended care; 1954 U.S. report on long-term patient care; 1976 BC government decision to create 600-bed teaching hospital on campus; larger class size expected. His involvement with bacteriology, 1939-1958; the campus in World War II; the first dean, 1949, Myron Weaver; finding a good personal doctor; Peggy Service, Dean Weaver's secretary; young faculty members; psychiatric treatment in Vancouver, 1914- .

CALL NUMBER: T1982:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): History of UBC Medical School PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1976 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-15 SUMMARY: Personal background; experience in RCAF ration research; pediatrician in freshly updated areas; practice and volunteer teaching of pediatrics in Toronto 1946 to 1951; history of pediatrics, nutrition; specialty care for mothers; teaching of pediatrics in the last 25 years; baby boom; the pill; current fading of pediatrician; western Canada practice; late development; Vancouver child care; Canadian; universities and paediatrics; access to hospitals in Vancouver; government policy; government subsidies for medical training, hospitals. CALL NUMBER: T1982:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): History of UBC Medical School PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1960 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dearth of pediatricians; Dr. McCreary's text book on pediatrics; prenatal clinics; non-violent delivery; University of Toronto to 1951; children's hospitals; paradox of pediatricians; treating 18-year-old women; adolescents; screening of medical students; what sort of people are they; expectations; wartime work as a pediatrician in Holland; in the front lines on duty. TRACK 2: Social aspects of pediatrics; researchers at UBC; UBC's standing as a medical school; role of medical services; nursing in Vancouver. CALL NUMBER: T1982:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): History of UBC Medical School PERIOD COVERED: 1950-1976 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Medical practice and hospitals; need for Government distribution of doctors in Canada; student requirements; Flexner Report on US medical schools; outline of history of medical schools in North America and Europe. Specialisation of medical teaching, practice; student course load; anecdote; baby rash; VD; patient's attitudes toward student examinations. TRACK 2: Cadavers at UBC; autopsies; unclaimed bodies; medical tradition; inclusion of the family physician in training; reducing the number of specialists; Association of Medical Colleges; socialised medicine; finance of doctors; doctor's practice. CALL NUMBER: T1982:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): History of UBC Medical School PERIOD COVERED: 1945-1975 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: History of UBC Medical School; its formation; US influence on Canadian medical education; Dr. Wesbrook; Dr. MacKenzie; advisory committee; Dr. Claude Dollman's report; full and part time teachers; Dr. Myron Weaver, first medical school dean; medical building 1950; department heads; Dr. William Boyd; pediatrics at VGH; British-American medical training; accreditation. TRACK 2: Influence on Canadian medical training; reaction of Vancouver doctors and academics at UBC to medical school; responsibilities of school; various deans until his own appointment as Dean in 1959; role of dean; continuing education. CALL NUMBER: T1982:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): History of UBC Medical School PERIOD COVERED: 1959-1968 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Becomes dean in 1959; long range planning group; 1957 federal legislation paying cost of acute care results in overemphasis of hospitals on medical education; clinical health care units; campus storefront on Heather Street; 1961 onwards, need for continuing education in medicine; percentage of interested doctors, courses given from all departments throughout BC; Department of Continuing Education created in 1960 emphasizing primary health care; the family doctor; US paramedics; choice of health careers by students; coordination of health sciences; centre established; departmental rivalry; medical care plans; people motivation not money; 1964, coordinator's job formalised. TRACK 2: The squeeze -- doing both jobs, as dean and coordinator; resigned as dean in 1968.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): History of UBC medical school RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-03-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Childhood; UBC medical school, 1955 to 1959; motivation to medicine; attitudes of medical students; role of clinicians; preceptorship; family practice residencies; personal general practitioner practice; general practitioners as social workers; family medicine; episodic versus continuing health care; American family practice; Canadian family practice; the British general practitioner; Canadian medical schools and family medicine; specialization; graduates into family medicine; College of Family Physicians; general practice. TRACK 2: Certification exam in 1968; movement to create Department of Family Medicine from present Division of Family Medicine in the Department of Epidemiology; 1975-76 progress; procedure to establish a new department; current staff.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): General Surgeon and Work for the Workers Compensation Board PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1976 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Personal background, childhood; schooling and music lessons; university and medical training; post graduate work in surgery; internship at Toronto General Hospital; practice in Welland after internship; effect of Depression on practice; war years; practicing Ottawa; aviation doctor and medical statistics; practice in Kamloops and discussion of facilities there; the formation of the Seymour Clinic in Vancouver; teaching at UBC Department of Surgery; surgical consultant at WCB; assistant director of medical services at WCB; duties; employee health unit. TRACK 2: Medical Director's responsibilities; coordination and education; pensions for disability; psychology playing larger role in claims; industrial hygiene at WCB; sound pollution; rehabilitation at WCB.