Tuesday, July 20, 1965
The Summer Nebraskan
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Miss Mor
lan is completing a journa
lism Internship with United
Tress International in Oma
ha this summer. She wrote
the following story in h c r
time off last week.
By Lynnc Morian
When Ag College surrend
ered its maiden name to the
more sophisticated title of
East Campus, speculation
arose that the College of Med
icine in Omaha would natur
ally be called the Far East
Campus.
The University of Nebras
ka College of Medicine, lo
cated nearly 50 miles from
the hub of Lincoln activity
might as well be located in
the Far East for as much as
Lincoln students know about
their metropolis co-college.
The College of Medicine is
located in the Omaha Medi
cal Center on 42nd and Dew
ey Avenue in what has been
tabbed the "medical capital
of the central west."
Surrounding the sister cam
pus are the Children's Mem
orial Hospital ,Bishop Clark
son Memorial Hospital, Doc
tors Office Building and the
Nebraska Psychiatric Insti
tute, itself a University sib
ling. New Approach
The Omaha Medical Center
uses a relatively new ap
proach to teaching. That is
to build a diversity of pri
vate hospitals around a col-
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Five-year old Larry Kennedy of Omaha relaxes while
senior student Bruce Rice examines him in the Pediatrics
Clinic at the College of Medicine. Overseeing the student's
examination is Dr. Dorothy Smith, assistant professor of
Pediatrics at the College.
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lege of medicine, providing the
medical students a wider
spectrum of medical educa
tion, treatment and research.
The hospital complex, so to
speak, brings the ailments to
the interns, giving them ex
p o s u r e to many different
health problems in a variety
of special settings ... all
necessary for a well-rounded
medical education.
Pete Boughn, public rela
tions director for the Col
lege of Medicine said that
through the cooperation of the
different hospitals in the med
ical complex, the students are
given exposure to most med
ical problems.
The surrounding buildings
were built on more than 30
acres of University - owned
property which was sold to the
individual institutions for pur
poses of building the complex.
The land itself forms a self
contained campus.
The history of the College
of Medicine closely resembles
the territorial capital struggle
between Lincoln and Oma
ha. On May 22, 1869, the same
year that the Universitas Ne
braskensis was founded, an
attempt was made to estab
lish the first school of med
icine in Nebraska. It was
called the Omaha Medical
College, which was incorpor
ated under the laws of the
state but never actually
opened.
The trustees who had ar
ranged the preliminary work
felt the enterprise was pre
mature. They visualized many
obstacles and abandoned the
work.
College Born 1880
Not until 1880, was the real
medical college born under
the name of the Nebraska
School of Medicine and Sur
gery. The aim of the institution
was expressed in the follow
ing record. "It is the mature
judgment of our leading phy
sicians, as well as prominent
citizens of other business pur
suits, that the time has ar
rived for the establishment
of a medical school in our
state."
So the Nebraska School of
Medicine began in a building
later known as the Dewey
Hotel at 13th and Far nam
Streets in Omaha with the
first class consisting of one
dentist, one preacher, one old
Eclectic, ashoemaker, a
druggist, a clerk, two wom
en and two young men. The
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instruction course lasted for
20 weeks and only one mem
ber of the faculty, a Dr.
Ayres, had had any previous
experience in teaching.
However, historic records
say at the end of the 20 weeks,
the students found they had
learned something of medi
cine and the Nebraska School
of Medicine was judged an
unqualified success.
The success of the found
ing medical school convinced
many that a well-equipped
medical college was demand
ed by the state.
The new college, establish-
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The College of Medicine
in 1881.
ed May 22, 1881, was called
the Omaha Medical College.
The modern medical col
lege relocated in a building
that contained two large lec
ture rooms, laboratory, library
and museum room, patients'
rooms, dissecting and anato
mists' rooms and cost the
sum of $4,266.
The Omaha Medical Col
lege opened its door to eight
students in October, 1881, and
the following March, the first
commencement was held.
Degree Requirements
Requirements for the de
gree of Doctor of Medicine
were somewhat more lenient
than modern times. Any 18
year old with- a -creditable
English education and good
moral character could obtain
the degree of Doctor of Medi
cine. About the same time, the
University of Nebraska in
Lincoln, supposedly wanting
to ride the crest of success of
medical schools, established
the University Medical Col
lege in 1883 in University Hall
in Lincoln. At the time, ev
erything was housed in Uni
versity Hall ... it being one
of the only buildings on cam
pus. The medical school was al
lotted half of the two largest
rooms on the first floor of the
north wing. The museum oc-.
cupied the other half. A par
tition was thrown across ttie
middle of the room and an
amphitheater built.
Although University Hall
was heated by stoves, ttie
room was cold and just as
well, for the anatomical ma
terial for the professor of
anatomy was kept in the
space under the raised seats.
Murder Mystery
Records describing the Uni
versity's medical college read
like a murder mystery.
"The dissecting room was
in another part of the city
(Lincoln) and was in constant
danger of the police looking
for mysterious things. The
preserving vat for subjects
was in an unknown basement
reached by an alley entrance,
and all material was secured
in some mysterious manner
and handled in the same way.
There were many sensational
articles in the daily papers,
and once the Professor of
Anatomy was before the
grand jury to give testimony,
and once again the same pro
fessor and the demonstrator
were taken to the police "with
the goods" but a trial proved
their innocence, and the
source of the material was
never known, although we
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The details of many of these
and other experiences would
make interesting reading for
the modern medical student."
The University Medical
School in Lincoln only lasted
four years, but the Omaha
pioneer still prospered. By
1893 the Omaha Medical Col
lege had again moved, this
time into a $20,000 new brick
and stone building at 12th and
Pacific.
In May, 1902, the University
of Nebraska entered into an
agreement of affiliation with
the Omaha Medical College
which was terminated in 1913
when the University of. Ne
braska formally took over in
struction in medicine in
Omaha.
Beginning in 1902, medical
students took the first two
years of their four-year medi
cal course in Lincoln and the
last two in Omaha. The move
in 1913 changed the Omaha
Medical College to the Uni
versity of Nebraska College of
Medicine.
Legislature Appropriates
In 1909 the Nebraska state
legislature appropriated $20,
000 for the purchase of a med
ical campus in Omaha, but
the building endowment did
not materialize. And in 1911,
the legislature appropriated
$100,000 for the first building
on the medical campus.
The 1911 appropriation en
countered opposition from two
sources. Lincoln opposed the
bill because it wanted the
medical college located in Lin
coln with the University.
Creighton University, the only
other medical college in Ne
braska located in Omaha, also
urged the defeat of the bill
because they felt that one
medical college in Omaha was
enough.
Despite Creighton and Lin
coln efforts, the College of
Medicine stayed in Omaha.
Proposed for the future are
a new hospital, library and
basic science building.
The state legislature has
approved a proposed new
hospital and basic science
building for late 1968. The
University of Nebraska has
not yet applied for a new li
brary for the Omaha campus.
According to Pete Boughn,
the federal government will
match funds for construction
of the hospital and basic sci
ence building, and if Congress
passes the Medical Library
Assistance Act, the govern
ment will also match funds
for the proposed library.
' Expand Facilities
Boughn said, "You can't ex
pand the medical students
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without expanding the facil
ities." The College of Medicine
has a goal to increase their
graduating class by 20 per
cent over this year.
In June, 1965, 77 doctors
and 36 nurses graduated.
Plans call for a University
facility equipped to handle a
graduating medical class of
110 doctors a year.
Boughn said that 74 per
cent of the practicing doctors
in Nebraska were trained in
the state, either at the Col
lege of Medicine or Creigh
ton University in Omaha.
He said, "We can't expect
to import them. There is on
ly one solution and that is to
train more doctors and ex
pect them to stay in the state.
Because of the shortage of
doctors outstatc, Bouhn said
an emphasis has been placed
on the general practice phy
sician and rural practice.
Last year 25 per cent of
the graduates went into gen
eral practice compared to 65
per cent in 1940.
But Boughn said, "Small
towns don't have a demand
for specialists."
On May 1, the College of
Medicine became the t h ir d
medical college in the nation
to create the position on their
faculty for a professor of gen
eral practice.
The College of Medicine has
a full-time faculty totaling 111.
There are 59 part-time facul
ty members and 341 volun
teer instructors who practice
medicine full-time and lecture
occasionally. They are unsal
aried. , In addition to working with
students, faculty members
work on research projects. In
fact, almost every faculty
member has at least one re
search grant.
The Nebraska Psychiatric
institute gets the most and
1 largest grants.
National Attention
A recent project won na
tional attention and acclaim
when Dr. Henry Lemon, di
rector of Eppley Cancer In
stitute at the College of Medi
cine, attended the American
Medical Association conven
tion in New York City in
June.
Lemon said that research
at the Eppley Institute dis
covered that breast cancer
may be inhibited by a better
balancing of sex hormones.
The Eppley Institute for
Cancer Research and Allied
Diseases is the newest build
ing on the campus. It form
ally opened in 1963 and is an
integral part of the college
devoted to basic research
leading to the further under
standing of cancer and other
diseases associated with it.
The Institute was built
with a $2.5 million grant
from the Eugene C. Eppley
Foundation, plus some state
and federal money.
Patients Charged
Patients are charged for
the University's services.
State law says the college can
only charge four dollars a day
to care for patients.
Patients sent to the college
by a welfare agency are
billed through that same
agency which determines how
much the patient can afford,
depending on his income.
The hospital and clinics pro
vide a full range of service
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College of Medicine stu
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College of Medicine plans to
take two interns from the Col
lege of Pharmacy in Lincoln
and both graduate and under
graduate dental students.
A 1964 report to the Medical
College by the Liaison Com
mittee on medical education
read, "The physical facilities
are still grossly inadequate
for the needs of a modern
medical school. The plans for
the future sound encourag
ing." The College of Medicine re
sponded. "There have been
improvements in the physical
facilities but they do not keep
pace with the rising standards
of medical school. The need
for a new library and a basic
science building is widely rec
ognized. We feel it is urgent."
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