Medical Education in the Early 1900’s- Dr. Morris

Dr. Holmes also wanted faculty to be fulltime to devote themselves to the teaching of medicine. Dr. Roger Morris was recruited to Cincinnati to be the first fulltime professor of medicine. He was the first fulltime professor of medicine West of the Allegheny Mountains. He received his medical degree from University of Michigan and studied in Munich. Dr. Roger Morris spent one year studying with Osler in Baltimore. Prior to arriving here he had been on faculty at Johns Hopkins and Washington University. His salary was $ 6,000/year to be professor of medicine. He was interested in studying pericarditis and pernicious anemia. Dr. Roger Morris became the Chair of Medicine in 1915     and served until 1934.     - He is credited with starting the internal medicine       residency program here.     - He encourage Dr. Leon Schiff to pursue education in       the field of gastroenterology and Dr. Johnson McGuire       to pursue cardiology.     - Very devoted to the residents and personally cared for       them when they were sick in the hospital.     - The first benefactor of the Gordon and Helen Hughes       Taylor Endowed Chair of Internal Medicine. Dr. Morris used his contacts to allow Dr. Schiff to train in Munich for nine months to develop skills in gastroenterology and hepatology.     - In 1928, the Gastric Laboratory was founded.

Medical Education in the Early 1900’s- Dr. Morris cont..

After some encouragement from Dr. Morris, Johnson     McGuire pursued further training in cardiology in Vienna.     - Dr. McGuire represented the fifth generation of physicians in his       family dating back to 1801 in Virginia.     - He founded the Cardiac Laboratory in 1935.     - He is also credited with performing the first cardiac catheterization       which was performed on a pig and was one of the first physicians       to utilize the determination of cardiac output in patient care.     - Strongly influenced Dr. Noble Fowler. Dr. Morris did have problems with manic depression and would have     to take leaves of absence from time to time. He relied on Dr. Mark Brown, a very well respected internist, to     take over in his absence. Dr. Brown was the former Cincinnati Health Commissioner.     - Under his guidance, sanitary conditions were improved with       new laws being enacted.     - These improvements helped to decrease the spread of bovine       TB via milk in Cincinnati. Unfortunately, during one of his inpatient stays for his mental illness,     Dr. Morris wandered away from Emerson North Psychiatric Hospital     and was found dead the next morning.