Student Life at Loyola University Medical School

Date: circa 1955
Cfa collection: Margaret Conneely Collection
Subjects: Medicine; Education; Health
Places: North America > United States > Illinois > Maywood
Language: English
Shot log: 00:00 - CU, ZOOM OUT sign “The New Loyola University Medical Center,” credits; 00:24 - narrator gives statistics and facts about the admissions process, PAN LEFT Loyola applicant in suit walks into lobby, police officer points him in direction for interview, women working at desks in admissions office, PAN RIGHT woman helps applicant; 00:57 - MS man behind desk conducts admissions interview with woman, MS two men in admissions interview; 01:14 - MS committees around a large desk review applicants; 01:31 - MS four students at a table in laboratory studying specimen under a microscope, narrator says these are home base for students available 24 hours a day; 01:53 - CU machine dials, MS interior stand up laboratory used in tandem with home base labs, students working at stations in lab, professor goes to each student providing individual supervision; 02:49 - MLS speaker at podium at Symposium on the Brain and Human Behavior, MS front row, three Nobel laureates, Daniel Bovet, Ragnar Granit, and Sir John Eccles, CU psychologist Jean Piaget, Var shots audience in lecture hall; 03:24 - CU heart model, ZOOM OUT doctor giving anatomical demonstration of human heart with plastic model to people at a table; 03:36 - CU cross section of human heart, ZOOM OUT doctor and student, this education will lead up to surgery their senior year; 03:46 - HA MS, CU heart surgery, student operating with doctor observing, MS doctor observing gauges, CU machinery, surgery is experiment towards heart transplant surgery development, after surgery doctor reviews EKG findings with student; 05:02 - MS SA three doctors in scrubs washing their hands up to the elbow, CU scrubbing; 05:17 - CU screen, machines, MS heart surgery being conducting in operating room, student observes how he will assist surgeon at the operation, CU pulling heart out with forceps; 05:52 - text card reads “Post Anesthetic Recovery ROOM”, Var MS patient care team in scrubs standing over empty hospital bed reading chart for patient assessing patient’s status with chief of service to provide proper post-op treatment; 06:09 - Var one-on-one learning with student and faculty members, CU, ZOOM OUT student with faculty reading results sitting at a large machine, MS two men reviewing a chart; 06:32 - African American student working in the department of Community Health and Family Medicine to study the effects of pollution on health in Illinois area, MS, CU moves liquid from one test tube to another with eye dropper; 07:18 - faculty of Stritch School of Medicine meeting around oval table in an office, planning for the future, female student walking down hall toward camera; 07:42 - CU doctor working with child, ZOOM OUT and IN little girl drawing in room with stuffed animals, emphasis on ability to communicate with children and parents, team of student doctors walk in to examine child, bedside teaching as a patient care team; 09:39 - MLS SA team of doctors in hospital room feeling glands of a student with acute mononucleosis; 10:03 - MS doctor and patient talking at desk, doctors must be able to recognize and alleviate patient anxiety, MLS RA students in classroom look on as professor writes on a chalkboard, woman stands up to talk; 10:32 - St. Luke’s Day, distribution of honors, MLS students walking up to podium to accept honors, MLS audience applauding, MS two men play guitars and sing a song about last day of class and school experience, MS audience in suits applauding; 11:28 - MLS RA two women and a female nurse walk down hall into patient’s room, MS interior operating room where woman is about to give birth, door with small window closes on camera, narrator says students not only learn about death, but new life; 11:58-12:12 - credits
Cfa elements: Print, 445 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/2626