School of Medicine, 1977 - 1978

The annual report includes a “Summary of Major Accomplishments in Instruction, Research, and Public Service” which highlights a few of the major accomplishments of the individual departments. Dean Norman Knorr mentions a major revision of the preclinical curriculum by the council on Medical Education and a new Division of Geriatrics under the leadership of Richard Lindsay with the anticipation of a special geriatric unit to be established at the Blue Ridge Sanatorium in the future. Currently there are established programs in epilepsy and outpatient Psychiatry at Blue Ridge. Another new Division is Geographic Medicine under the direction of Richard Guerrant. There is a report from the Office of Student Affairs and a break-down of SOM admissions.

The annual report contains the reports from individual departments or divisions: Anatomy, Anesthesiology, Biochemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Dentistry, Dermatology, Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Microbiology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Otolaryngology, Pathology, Pediatrics, Pharmacology, Physiology, Plastic Surgery, Psychiatry, Radiology, Surgery, Urology, Roanoke Program.