Pediatric Surgery: The Long Road to Recognition

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 92 (4) ◽  
pp. 618-621
Author(s):  
C. Everett Koop
Keyword(s):  
General Surgery ◽  
Pediatric Surgery ◽  
Internship And Residency ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Surgery Training ◽  
Difficult Time ◽  
Adult World ◽  
The University ◽  
General Surgery Training

Before 1946, when I completed my training in general surgery, I knew very little about the field that eventually became known as pediatric surgery. I knew that children did not get a fair shake in surgery; that was amply proved during my internship and residency. Surgical patients came from the adult world, and children had a difficult time competing with them. Surgeons in general were frightened of children, and they distrusted the ability of anesthetists to wake children up after putting them to sleep, a position not far from that of many anesthetists. The younger and smaller the patient, the more significant the hazard. I knew, also, that in the United States and in Europe, where some surgery of children was more successfully carried out, it fell usually into one of the specialties, especially orthopedics. In those days there was a need for such specialization in the treatment of diseases that are no longer problems: tuberculosis of the bone, osteomyelitis, and polio. I wish I could say that my knowledge of the sad state of child surgery as I saw it in Philadelphia made me determined to bring about changes for the better. Actually, during the last year of my general surgery training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, I was invited to become surgeon in chief of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Pediatric surgery was thrust upon me. Nevertheless, I was excited about the chance to make surgery safer for children, and I entered my career with that goal.

scholarly journals General Surgery Training - During the COVID 19 Pandemic and Beyond Authors

2021 ◽  
pp. 155335062110080
Author(s):  
Ravin R. Patel ◽  
Daniel Nel ◽  
Anna Coccia ◽  
Shreya Rayamajhi
Keyword(s):  
General Surgery ◽  
Surgery Training ◽  
General Surgery Training

The Politics of Culture in Cold War America

Prospects ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 451-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Sugrue
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Racial Inequality ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early Years ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Literary Figure ◽  
National Security State ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The University

In march, 1994, the University of Pennsylvania held a conference to celebrate the opening of the Howard Fast papers at the university's library. To commemorate Fast's remarkable sixty-year career, a group of historians and literary critics gathered to reconsider the intellectual and cultural milieu of the United States in the early years of the Cold War. During the eventful years, from 1945 to 1960, Fast emerged as a leading Communist activist and a major literary figure who achieved great popular success. Fast, an unabashed member of the Communist Party, like many other oppositional writers of the era, clashed with the national security state. He faced harassment, blacklisting, and marginalization for his refusal to cooperate with federal authorities who were committed to silencing cultural and political voices from the Left. Like other stalwarts of the Communist Party, Fast was often doctrinaire. As a reporter for the Daily Worker and an occasional partisan polemicist, Fast was often stiflingly orthodox. But Fast's Communism was a distinctively American variant, mediated by New York's Jewish radicalism, deeply concerned with the American dilemma of racial inequality.

DEFECTIVE STEROIDAL BIOGENESIS IN CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1958 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 661-672
Author(s):  
Alfred M. Bongiovanni ◽  
Walter R. Eberlein
Keyword(s):  
Research Work ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Rockefeller Institute ◽  
Children's Hospital ◽  
Research Division ◽  
Children’S Hospital ◽  
The University

Dr. Alfred M. Bongiovanni is a young man who started research work as an investigator at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, even before he received his B.S. degree from Villanova College in 1940. While at Villanova, Dr. Bongiovanni received the Kolmer Medal for Excellence in Science. In 1943 he received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, following which he immediately served a 2-year tour of duty in the United States Navy. After discharge from the Navy, he filled residencies at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia from 1947 to 1949. During the years 1949 and 1950, Dr. Bongiovanni served as Assistant Physician at the Rockefeller Institute in New York and in 1950-51 returned to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia as Assistant Director of Clinics. In 1951 he was appointed the National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis Fellow to the Research Division of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. New opportunities and promotions quickly followed with an appointment as Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins in 1952; Senior Research Associate in the Pediatric Endocrine Division and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania in 1954; and in 1955 Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the same university. Dr. Bongiovanni is a Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatrics and a member of the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Medical Sciences and of numerous professional societies. In 1956 Dr. Bongiovanni received the Ciba Award. Dr. Bongiovanni has been author of about 50 articles, the great majority of which are on endocrinology and at least 23 of them with Dr. Eberlein, who is the co-recipient with Dr. Bongiovanni of this Award, as a co-author.

The World before (and Shortly after) Wharton

2019 ◽  
pp. 14-52
Author(s):  
Steven Conn
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Business Schools ◽  
Educational Leaders ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
American Business ◽  
Wharton School ◽  
The Social ◽  
University Degree ◽  
The University

This chapter examines why educational leaders and businessmen in the United States thought it was a good idea to establish business schools in the first place. The answer often offered at the time was that American business itself had grown so big and complex by the turn of the twentieth century that a new university-level education was now required for the new world of managerial work. However, the more powerful rationale was that businessmen wanted the social status and cultural cachet that came with a university degree. The chapter then looks at the Wharton School of Finance and Economy at the University of Pennsylvania, which was founded in 1881 and became the first business school in the United States. All of the more than six hundred business schools founded in the nearly century and a half since descend from Wharton.

National Selection into General Surgery: A Pilot Study

2011 ◽  
Vol 93 (9) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
PM Lamont ◽  
G Griffiths ◽  
L Cochrane
Keyword(s):  
General Surgery ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Personal Communication ◽  
Medical Specialty ◽  
Specialty Training ◽  
Surgery Training ◽  
Medical Careers ◽  
Surgical Trainees ◽  
National Selection ◽  
General Surgery Training

General surgery training in England ceased to run through to completion of training from specialty training level one (ST1) as of August 2010. Instead, a second competitive interview to enter ST3 has been introduced. As a result, up to 180 ST3 vacancies in general surgery should become available for recruitment each year in England, according to figures obtained from Medical Specialty Training (England), the successor to Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) (personal communication). The general surgery specialist advisory committee (SAC) was asked in 2008 by MMC to consider how best to appoint to these ST3 posts. Experience from other surgical specialties has shown that a national selection process offers the potential to recruit the best core surgical trainees.

Gender-Related Attrition in a General Surgery Training Program

1998 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia C. Bergen ◽  
Richard H. Turnage ◽  
C.James Carrico
Keyword(s):  
Training Program ◽  
General Surgery ◽  
Surgery Training ◽  
General Surgery Training
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