THE WINTER SOLSTICE CEREMONY AT WALPI

The 2008 Anatomy Ceremony: Essays

When asked to relate my experience of anatomy to the first-year medical and physician associate students at Yale before the start of their own first dissection, I found no better words to share than those of my classmates. Why speak with only one tongue, I said, when you can draw on 99 others? Anatomical dissection elicits what our course director, Lawrence Rizzolo, has called a "diversity of e...

Beyond the White Coat Ceremony

Note from Anna B. Reisman, Co-Director, Yale Internal Medicine Residency Writers' Workshop, Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine and VA Connecticut Health Care System: This issue inaugurates a new feature: selected writings from the Yale Internal Medicine Residency Program's Writers' Workshop. The annual workshop began in 2003. Abraham Verghes...

Secret Ceremony

Sparse Days and ANR SOLSTICE

“Winter” at Yale

The history of the Yale School of Medicine is illuminated by the names of many great men. A distinguished school is a living organism and the soul which inspires and guides it has been created by the dreams and the visions which have gone before. In the Yale School of Medicine, no one of our distinguished leaders has played a greater role in this creative process than Milton Winternitz. When "W...