Interview with Lydia Messmer: oral history.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Rose, Elizabeth Kirk.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine--Evaluation.

University of Pennsylvania.

University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine--Faculty.

University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine--Students.

Pediatrics--Study and teaching--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Pediatrics.

Women physicians--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Women physicians.

College teachers--Tenure--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

College teachers.

University of Pennsylvania--History--20th century.

Women--Education (Higher)--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Women.

Physical Description:

4 videotapes (3 U-matic tapes and 1 VHS): accompanying material in the manuscript section of the collection.

Contained In:

University of Pennsylvania. School of Arts and Sciences. Computing Facilities and Services. Multimedia Educational Technology Services. Records, 1969-1991

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania, c[1987].

Biography/History:

Elizabeth Kirk Rose graduated from the University of Wisconsin with an A.B. in 1923 and from the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania with an M.D. in 1926. She was in private practice of pediatrics from 1930 to 1950. She joined the medical faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in 1935, serving as instructor of pediatrics from 1935 to 1941, as consulting pediatrician at the Children's Hospital from 1946 to 1973, and as assistant professor of the Department of Public Health in 1956. She held the office of president of Women's Faculty Club in the year of 1968-1969. Rose retired in 1973.

Summary:

Elizabeth K. Rose reviewed her experience at the University of Pennsylvania. She began with why she chose the University for her medical program and how she came to Philadelphia; discussed then such aspects as the faculty of the medical school, women's status on campus and at the University hospital, curriculum, and research work; and finally remarked on how she entered the field of pediatrics, the problem of "inbreeding" in faculty development, and her husband's eye trouble, etc.

Notes:

Produced by the Multimedia Educational Technology Services, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1346383692