January 1955

Alumni Bulletin

Summer 1980

Yale Medicine

January 1955
Alumni Bulletin

Students’ Loan Fund of Yale Men in Medicine

“The following statement is published at the request of the officers and incorporators of the Students’ Loan Fund of Yale Men in Medicine, Inc.
“It is estimated that it costs a student a minimum of $2,000 for each of his four years of residence at the Yale University School of Medicine. Although this represents only a fraction of the total cost of his medical education, it is nevertheless a considerable sum. … In the present academic year, ninety students, or twenty-seven percent of the student body, have requested such help. …
“The Students’ Loan Fund of Yale Men in Medicine has been for twenty years a modest but continuing source of help to our needy and worthy students. Since its inception in 1934, this Fund has provided loans to one hundred and twenty of our students.”

Summer 1980
Yale Medicine

Human Genetics finds a new home

“The completion of the third floor of the Nathan Smith Building has long been awaited by members of the Department of Human Genetics. ‘It seems as though we had outgrown facilities in the LCI building even before we moved in,’ a faculty member observed recently.
“During the past two decades, the study of human genetics has become one of the most rapidly advancing and challenging fields in medical science. ‘It is hard to believe now, that in the 1950s when I and many of my colleagues were in medical school, human genetics was a relatively minor subject,’ Dr. Leon Rosenberg, chairman of the Department, remarked a few years ago.
“The Nathan Smith Building … symbolizes the spirit in which the Department was founded in 1972. At the time, Dr. Rosenberg stated, ‘The fundamental philosophy behind this departmental organization is that the application of basic genetic knowledge to the problems of human illness can best be accomplished in a climate which encourages close interaction between those with expertise is basic laboratory genetic science and those who are concerned with patients with genetic problems. This is a new concept in academic medicine.”