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| Dr. Robert Bens Kerr (1908 - 1997) |
| Interview date: | Tuesday, February 19 1985, Tuesday, February 26, 1985, Tuesday, March 5, 1985 | 
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| Interviewer: | Sharlene Stacey | |
| Transcriber: | Patricia Startin | |
| Funding: | The Woodward Foundation | |
| Identifier: | Book 2 | |
| Biography | Dr. Kerr joined UBC in 1950 as Professor of Medicine and Head of the Department of Medicine. | |
| Summary: | Tape 1:
The early teaching years; the facilities at VGH; the first students; Dean Weaver; plans for a campus hospital; Dean Patterson; Dean McCreary's recruitment; the B.C. Medical Centre; clinical teaching at Shaughnessy and St. Paul's. Tape 2: The 'split' school; quality of the school; pathologist Dr. William Boyd; the B.C. Medical Research Institute and G.F. Strong Research Laboratory; Dr. Kenneth Evelyn; Dr. Stefan Graybowski (Respiratory Disease); Eric W Hamber; the medical thesis; social events; Sims traveling fellowship; the Dept of General Practice; School of Rehabilitation; Dept of Psychiatry. Tape 3: (Sub)Depts of Dermatology and Neurology; local cases of polio and typhoid; preceptor program; continuing medical education; renal dialysis program. | |
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