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CA OSLER P142-A-A/M-5-3
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1.5 cm of textual records
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(1891-1976)
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Born in Spokane, Washington, Wilder Penfield received his B.Litt. from Princeton University in 1913 and was a Rhodes Scholar in Oxford (B.A.1916). He received his M.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1918. Studying under Sir Charles Sherrington at Oxford, Penfield became interested in the brain. From 1921 to 1928 he engaged in research and neurosurgery at the Presbyterian Hospital and served on the Medical Faculty of Columbia University. Appointed to the Medical Faculty of McGill University in 1928, he was Chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery from 1934 to 1960. An endowment from the Rockefeller Foundation enabled him to establish the Montreal Neurological Institute (M.N.I.), which opened in 1934. At the M.N.I. Penfield made many innovations in neurosurgery including a surgical treatment for epilepsy. He devoted much of his research to the study of the physiology of the brain, speech memory and sensation. Besides his numerous scientific publications, Penfield wrote two novels and participated in a large number of professional organizations. Dr. Penfield was a member of the Board of Curators of the Osler Library.
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The file contains miscellaneous data for the McGill Teaching Curriculum Committee. This includes a ‘General Statement of ideas and problems concerning the making of a physician’ by Everett C. Hughes; a paper given by Professor Hall at a Curriculum Committee meeting; a description of the medical college admissions test; statistics of medical students in Canada, 1953; questions for the Curriculum Committee; ‘On Reading of Medical Literature’, a paper by Alan Gregg; two editions of a newsletter Idiosyncrat (Vol. 11 no. 4 and Vol. II no.3), which was published ‘every now and again’ but the Medical Students of McGill University; a list of suggested readings by the Faculty of Medicine Curriculum Study Committee; a list of Faculty members; terms of reference for the Curriculum Committee of the Faculty of Medicine, 1955; a report on the medical school at Edinborough; an unnamed report card for a surgery course; ‘The Purpose of Medical Education’ by G.W. Pickering, noted in handwriting as ‘excellent’; a ‘Adventure in Pedagogy’ by George E. Miller; extracts from letters received by Dr. Murray Stalker replying to the question ‘in which areas of instruction does the practitioner find newly fledged graduates lacking?’; ‘The place of Anatomy in expanding Medical Curriculum’ by C.P. Martin; a printed excerpt of ‘A Revised Program of Medical Education at John Hopkins’ pages 3-12; and a ‘Special Article Integration of Essential Portions of Specialities in the Major Areas of Medicine’ by J. Wendell Macleod from Canad. M.A.J. May 28 1960 Vol. 82.