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October 1955
Alumni Bulletin
Winter/Spring 1980
Yale Medicine
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October 1955
Alumni Bulletin
New Graduate Program in Medical Sociology
“Yale University will start a new graduate program in medical sociology—the
first of its kind in the nation to train students to apply the knowledge
and techniques of sociology to the fields of medicine and public health.
The new program will attempt to bridge the gap between medicine and sociology—between
the doctor and the society which he serves. It will prepare students for
teaching, research and administrative positions involving the social aspects
of health and medicine. …
“The first year will be spent in courses designed to meet special
interests and training needs. The student will study the application of
medical knowledge to public health problems, as well as the relationship
of public health to various sociological phenomena. Courses will be taken
in both the Department of Sociology and the School of Medicine. The second
year of the program will be devoted to a thesis in the field of health
or medical problems and society.”
Winter/Spring 1980
Yale Medicine
Match Day 1980
“Match Day is the culmination of several months of planning, counseling,
and decision making on the part of senior medical students, deans and
faculty, as well as hospitals participating in the National Resident Matching
Program (NRMP). The program was developed during the 1950s when there
were more internship positions available than there were medical school
graduates to fill them. As a result, many hospitals were exerting pressure
on students to sign contracts for their internships early in their senior
year; some even pressed for decisions early in the sophomore or junior
years. In 1953, after several attempts to establish an equitable system
for internship appointments, the basic rules of the existing NRMP were
set. …
“This year, March 12 was Match Day. At Yale, of the 96 members of
the Class of 1980, 42 students received appointments to the hospital of
their first choice; 19 were appointed to the hospital they listed as second
choice; and 10 to their third choice.”
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