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Post by eyedoc75 on Mar 24, 2020 12:41:51 GMT -5
Here is a thought. We have always honored members of our Holy Cross Family in various ways. In recent years we honored our greatest basketball player by placing a statute of his image in front of the Athletic Center. I would propose in a school where 10% of our graduates are physicians that it should be considered that our greatest research scientist and physician alumnus ( no offense to Nobel Prize winner Dr. Murray) who led the world wide fight against Aids, honored with the US Medal of Freedom and now leads us in the fight against the COV-19 virus have a similar statue placed in front of our science buildings to serve as an inspiration to all future HC scientists and physicians.
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Post by lou on Mar 24, 2020 12:50:16 GMT -5
Where do I contribute?
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Post by hchoops on Mar 24, 2020 12:53:41 GMT -5
Just hope the school does not wait until he dies Sounds as if the object of the other statue would contribute.
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Post by rgs318 on Mar 24, 2020 13:09:05 GMT -5
Count me in.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Mar 24, 2020 13:13:20 GMT -5
I’ll look forward to contributing. I think it would take only a day or two to raise the $$$.
Small matter: I cannot believe that 10% of our grads are doctors. I’d guess it would be much lower percentage. There’s about 60MM college grads in USA and 1.1MM doctors. So 1 in every 55 college grads is an MD. 1 in 10 at HC seems high even as elite a school as HC id
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Post by rgs318 on Mar 24, 2020 13:16:04 GMT -5
Is that the percent of medical doctors or all those alumni with doctorates?
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Post by CHC8485 on Mar 24, 2020 14:21:49 GMT -5
If 10% of HC Grads are MDs, that means that since 1950 at least 45 HC grads were going to (and graduating from) med school. As the undergrad population has grown, it means that 45 per year has grown and in recent years that number would be more like 75 per year.
I think that number may be a bit off. Maybe 10% come in as pre-med?
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Post by alum on Mar 24, 2020 14:30:46 GMT -5
I’ll look forward to contributing. I think it would take only a day or two to raise the $$$. Small matter: I cannot believe that 10% of our grads are doctors. I’d guess it would be much lower percentage. There’s about 60MM college grads in USA and 1.1MM doctors. So 1 in every 55 college grads is an MD. 1 in 10 at HC seems high even as elite a school as HC id I wondered about the 10% number, too. I searched in the alumni directory by career category and by Medical/Medical Science. It gave me 1000 names which only took me to into the letter "L." I am guessing that category produces close to 2000 results and we know not every alum is listed. I realize that some will fall under that category who are PA's, RN's, hospital administrators, etc. but it still generates a pretty large number of medical doctors. It just might be 10% and I am guessing that eyedoc75 might know more than most of us about this topic. I suspect that a year from now, Dr. Fauci will have more than a hundred offers to be a commencement speaker. Certainly, HC should bring him in for either an honorary degree or the Hanify Howland lecture.
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Post by matunuck on Mar 24, 2020 14:57:46 GMT -5
If he was a bit younger, he'd make a nice president of Holy Cross -- as I noted before.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Mar 24, 2020 15:05:18 GMT -5
I believe Fauci has an honorary degree from HC. He had about 45 honorary degrees as of several years ago. No HC graduate has more, and its very likely that no one ever will. I just checked whether he had received honorary degrees from HYP; yep to all three.
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Post by eyedoc75 on Mar 24, 2020 15:32:00 GMT -5
There were 600 people in my graduating class. We started out with 120 premed students. In the end 60 of us ultimately matriculated although in some cases there was a year delay. I extrapolated to our entire alumni group to say that 10% of all alumni were MDs (part of my Irish story telling ability as my wife would say) I realize that in recent years alma mater's ability to ease our students access into medical school has diminished so the actual percentage is probably lower.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Mar 24, 2020 15:41:26 GMT -5
Are you class of 75, as am I?
I lived in Wheeler for 4 years--I'll guess that our percentage of MD's was lower than the rest of the campus.....
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Post by sarasota on Mar 24, 2020 20:31:59 GMT -5
When I graduated in '63 virtually all of the "BS-Bio PreMeds" as well as the "AB PreMeds" got into top American medical or dental schools. HC's PreMed Program was one of the most highly respected programs of its type in the Country. It was incredibly rigorous. Thank you Profs Busam, Malumphy, Crowe, McGrath, etc for what you achieved over decades. I wonder if your legacy will ever be properly honored.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Mar 24, 2020 20:46:27 GMT -5
If he was a bit younger, he'd make a nice president of Holy Cross -- as I noted before. Maybe we'd be in the Big...you know
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Mar 24, 2020 20:47:26 GMT -5
I believe Fauci has an honorary degree from HC. He had about 45 honorary degrees as of several years ago. No HC graduate has more, and its very likely that no one ever will. I just checked whether he had received honorary degrees from HYP; yep to all three. You can get honorary degrees from the school at which you ACTUALLY studied at and earned a degree? I learned something new today.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Mar 24, 2020 21:05:03 GMT -5
Yeah--you just get an advanced degree I assume. I'm holding out for mine....
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Post by sarasota on Mar 24, 2020 21:12:45 GMT -5
Prepare to have your mind blown about Tony. From Wikipedia:
"In 2003, the Institute for Scientific Information stated that from 1983 to 2002, "Fauci was the 13th most-cited scientist among the 2.5 to 3 million authors in all disciplines throughout the world who published articles in scientific journals."
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Mar 24, 2020 21:36:07 GMT -5
Very nice tidbit. Very impressive. Thanks for hunting that down and sharing it with us
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Post by longsuffering on Mar 25, 2020 0:18:30 GMT -5
When I graduated in '63 virtually all of the "BS-Bio PreMeds" as well as the "AB PreMeds" got into top American medical or dental schools. HC's PreMed Program was one of the most highly respected programs of its type in the Country. It was incredibly rigorous. Thank you Profs Busam, Malumphy, Crowe, McGrath, etc for what you achieved over decades. I wonder if your legacy will ever be properly honored. You are absolutely correct. HC's PreMed Program continued as one of the most highly respected programs after your graduation well into the sixties. I had not realized that this was no longer the case. What happened? I remember that pre-med students worked hard to get a recommendation from the Holy Cross pre-med program and some students on the bubble did not get the coveted recommendation. It was a tough decision but I recall the thinking being that to keep the recommendation something the med schools could rely on, tough decisions had to be made. That didn't mean students couldn't apply to med schools without it, but chances of acceptance were much less.
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Post by CHC8485 on Mar 25, 2020 7:05:12 GMT -5
Not sure the pre-med program is significantly lower regarded, just that fewer students see medicine as the career they want to pursue. According to the College, between 35 & 55 students apply to medical school each year with an acceptance rate of recommended students above 85%. Seem to recall that number being in the low 90% in the mid-80's. Link to the post graduation results here and click the links to the left to see what the program is like now: www.holycross.edu/academics/programs/health-professions-advising/after-graduationBTW - According to the page I just cited, I stand slighly corrected. Think it's referring to all alumni in health professions - meaning nurses, CNP, PAs, etc. - are likely in that count, but it's still a lot of alums in medicine.
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Post by longsuffering on Mar 25, 2020 20:09:06 GMT -5
Dr. Fauci will be on CNN with Chris Cuomo during this current hour.
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Post by sarasota on Mar 25, 2020 23:21:07 GMT -5
When this blows over, Tony could be in for big BIG things.
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Post by longsuffering on Mar 25, 2020 23:59:25 GMT -5
Apparently Dr. Fauci is a long time friend of the Cuomo family. The mother of Chris and Andrew and widow of Mario was living or staying at Chris' House and Andrew wanted her to move to a safer location so she wouldn't catch covid-19, while Chris felt his house was safe. So they appealed to Dr, Fauci to make the decision and the mother moved to a safer location.
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Post by hchoops on Mar 26, 2020 3:54:35 GMT -5
Dr. Fauci will be on CNN with Chris Cuomo during this current hour. Time magazine man of the Year ?
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Post by hcpride on Mar 26, 2020 6:49:30 GMT -5
Interview today at 1pm (Eastern) today w/Steph Curry - -Curry's Instagram.
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