There was a somewhat pungent, stuffy and irritating smell that greeted a small group of 56 students who met in the anatomy iab classroom to start their medical training- the future class of 61. Some were nervous about this new venture, some guarded, and others were eager with anticipation. A couple of us who appeared with full beards from a summer's work in the north of Canada were told to be clean shaven before returning the following day. And so we began our many hours of anatomy dissections, biochemistry labs, histology and physiology lectures, and so on, delving into the many basic and clinical studies that would change and shape the rest of our years, our work, our associationsindeed, our professional, social and domestic lives. We had committed ourselves to the lofty ambition of becoming physicians.
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