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[Music] hello everyone and welcome to the rap brought to you by us in medicine headlines I'm Dan almond with the Department of Communication this week we're going to make some history that's because we're gonna chat about Michigan medicines history the Department of Communications resident historian Cary Gavin before we bring Kerrigan sure you go back to the history of the rap get caught up on any episodes you may have missed we can find the most recent shows on YouTube all of them can be found on itunes stitcher google play or any other podcasting platform no episodes debut each week and are always a part that headlines we can review let's look back the past seven months headlines and the organization as a whole is then celebrating a major milestone in its history for the series of historical stories and social media posts kara can you remind listeners why do organizations looking back on its history and what actually happened on 50 years ago yes absolutely happy to thank you for having me on this is our hundred and fiftieth year of being an academic medical center that means having a hospital as well as a medical school our medical school goes back 20 more years before that but in 1869 at the very tail end of 1869 in December we admitted the first patient to our first hospital so that was the kickoff date for our celebration and before co-construct we were intending to sort of wrap it up by August around the ice cream social time order you keep going through as long as we can through December why not why not it gives people something to read right absolutely little distraction yeah so how did you get involved in this project and why are you so interested in Michigan Medicine history I'm a history geek I've also been here 21 years and so I go back long enough to remember our celebration of the medical schools 150th in 1999 to 2000 and I arrived right as that was kicking off and was just absolutely amazed by that the rich heritage of this place and when it was pointed out to me that we were kind on the hospital it seemed like a really natural time to stop look back and and also flesh out our history of the hospital side of our Medical Center because the medical school history had been so well traced because of that sis listen Kenny oh that 150th celebration of the med school back in 99 mm so I volunteered to do it from a communication standpoint I reached out to joel howell in internal medicine and howard Markel in the center for the history of medicine both of them are trained historians both of them have done amazing work to trace the history of our institution and connected with them connected with our wonderful of historians and archivists at the Bentley Historical Library and also with a lot of the resources that were put together for the Bicentennial University so there's already a lot there that I could draw from it but as a communicator rather than a trained historian I'm trying to historical through articles residents and fellows came from what did you find most interesting when researching that well it was interesting it was every Thursday I've been trying to do these social media posts and I started out thinking last July the new residents have just started I'll see what I can find for history of residency and this was last Wednesday I was kind of on deadline is coming procrastinating and I started going down the rabbit hole looking at original sources and images and I said oh my gosh is the whole story here the reason we call them residents is because they had to live at the hospital we had houses for them really eventually built a whole building for them attached to the hospital that was built in the 20s so they actually were living here were part of this institution 24/7 to basically provide care in addition to what the faculty physicians were already doing so back in 1869 when we open that hospital there weren't any residents there was a steward and his wife and has lived in this can at house where these patients would come and stay and then they would cross the dag and go have their surgery with a faculty member on Wednesday or Saturday and come back and stay at the house for a few weeks that was our Hospital but a few years later we basically hired one of our recent graduates to live at the hospital and take care of these patients between the times when they were seeing the faculty doctors and that was our first resident physician soon after we hired our first resident surgeon and and then after that a few more years later we started hiring more recent graduates and calling them interns and so these were the very newest physicians and it was soon recognized that they needed to have a formal education beyond Medical School in order to become full-fledged physicians practice independently and that's where this idea that we have today of internship and residency and fellowship specialists officers without ever thinking you can learn how you should so that's something that has stood out for me during this history series what are some of the stories that have stood out for you the whole one was really interesting to write because it was about our infectious disease hospital and how finally people were realizing that if you kept people with infectious diseases apart from people with other conditions you could keep those other patients from getting sick and if you took precautions to not cross contaminate things that you could also protect people I've also really enjoyed delving into the history of some of our firsts as far as diversity first medical school to accept women except for the ones that were all women which were few and far between and mostly back east so we were the first major medical school except women you know he had African American and Asian very early on and this idea that we were you know a place that people could come who maybe weren't what people thought physicians looked like in those days or even today it was really important for me to find that and trace that and find pictures of them and show that these were real people yes maybe they had corsets and they were doctors and they were you know and the nurses the history the nursing school something I want to do more on as well because this idea of nurses being a critical part of our community from the 1890s is amazing and how we had this training school for nurses that was part of a hospital for many years until it became a full-fledged College of its own yeah well I think that leads perfectly into my next question what else do you have up your sleeve that listeners our readers should look forward to before the year ends yeah absolutely one of the things I wanted to do I'm hoping to do soon is to look around at some of the names that we see on street signs and building signs that are names of people and look back and say who were these people what did they do why did they get something named after them and you know we you know we walk down Z to picture place or we you know go into the you know a building named for someone why is it named that and a lot of these go back to our early days we also have named professorships for people so what I'm trying look at some of those things that we take for granted and just like we take the term resident for for granted right so keep something that's everyday and and delve into the history of it also hoping to do a little bit more maybe with history more of our research on microbiology we have an amazing claims to fame there and I think also trying to think about maybe some things around emergency care or the way we tie into the other Health Sciences schools and colleges at U of M those are things I'm interested in and and also maybe taking a deeper dive at some of our genetics research and our role in the origins of genetics research and care and thinking about you know some of the things that that go back you know as far as where things work people don't realize our first hospital was where the chemistry building is now way down on the diag the medical school was on the diag and actually the medical school didn't really move to the hill or the medical campus until the 50s fully they still had students being taught down there in the sixties so you know thinking about some things like that I open to suggestions I'd love to hear from people yes a lot to look forward to and there's like you said so many things that we take for granted that have you know basis in history I wouldn't even thought to think about where the zina picture sure so we will get cite are you of M health org slash history so in a timeline there which I want to keep adding to and then links from there to the stories that I've written so those are easy to find lots of pictures but also lots of links at the bottom so if you're really in history scroll down to the bottom of that timeline and you're going to find lots of links to take you even further down that same rabbit hole that I've been traveling but if you want to just graze and browse every Thursday on Facebook Twitter Instagram and LinkedIn I've been posting that picture pictures and caption at least if not a little story about something historical and I actually have a goal of cataloging those and bringing them up on the website so that we have them forever and that they don't just live on Facebook the hashtag is mich med 150 hashtag mission med 150 and you can search that hashtag on any of those platforms and you'll find those posts tremendous well thank you so much Kara if you ever bring any of these history stories that I strongly encourage you to do so incredibly interesting and give you a better sense of what the organization is all about today you can find them at mmm headlines that word that's mmm headlines org roll over there you find other future stories in this past week for instance employees share tips on how they are planning to spend their summer safely the diversity means more Cirie's return giving readers insight into books podcasts and movies they'll help you become more educated on racial issues and disparities in faculty and staff learned an inspiring patience story on one teenager who received a life-saving care at Michigan medicine during the pandemic and those stories and much more @mm headlines org all right it's time for the weekly trivia contest last week we asked listeners which historic event marks the celebration of pride each year the answer is the Stonewall Riots congratulations to Ellen Copeland Brown sent in the correct answer Ellen Oh a member of the department of communication we'll be in touch shortly to help you claim your prize now for this week's question what year did the first resident hospital physician begin working at U of M once again what year did the first resident Hospital physician begin working at U of M check out this week's headline story about history find the answer and once you know it send it to headlines at med umich.edu - the chance to win a great prize all the time we have for this week thank you so much Cara for joining us and thank you to all of our listeners and viewers for everything you do for patients families and each other we'll see you actually [Music] you