Guide to the Renee C. Fox and Samuel W. Bloom Medical Student Project Papers,
1950-1953.

Collection Number: 4388

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
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Compiled by:
M.E. Warren
Date completed:
November 1989
EAD encoding:
Martin Heggestad, May 2004
Date modified:
RMC Staff, January 2011

© 2003 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Renee C. Fox and Samuel W. Bloom medical student project papers, 1950-1953.
Collection Number:
4388
Creator:
Renee C. Fox.
Quantity:
3.2 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Field notes, interviews, and diaries.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
The papers consist of three kinds of materials: field notes of situations, e.g. meetings, classes, informal gatherings, etc. observed by the field workers; informal interviews with faculty members and students in the Cornell University Medical College and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School; and diaries kept by a number of students selected to represent different stages of training and different kinds of interests.
Language:
Collection material in English

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

The papers consist of three kinds of materials: field notes of situations, e.g. meetings, classes, informal gatherings, etc. observed by the field workers; informal interviews with faculty members and students in the Cornell University Medical College and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School; and diaries kept by a number of students selected to represent different stages of training and different kinds of interests.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Fox, Renee C.
Bloom, Samuel W.
Cornell University. Medical College.
University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine.

Subjects:
Medical students.
Sociologists.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Renee C. Fox and Samuel W. Bloom medical student project papers, #4388. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
July 20-Nov. 5, 1953
Field Notes, Volume I
 Box 1 Folder 1-3
Nov. 9, 1953-Mar. 24, 1954
Field Notes, Volume II
 Box 1 Folder 4-6
Mar. 24-June 9, 1954
Field Notes, Volume III
 Box 1 Folder 7-9
1954-1955
Field Notes, Volume IIIb
 Box 1 Folder 10-11
1954-1955
Field Notes, Volume IIIc
 Box 1 Folder 12-15
1954-1955
Miscellaneous reading notes, Volume IIId
 Box 1 Folder 16
1953-1954
Wilmot Ball, Fourth Year Student, Volume IVa
 Box 1 Folder 17-20
1953-1954
Harold Brew, Fourth Year Student, Volume V
 Box 1 Folder 21-22
1953-1954
Harry Cassell, Fourth Year Student, Volume VI
 Box 1 Folder 23-26
1953-1954
Lowell McLellan, Third Year Student, Volume VII
Box 1 Folder 27-29
1953-1954
Dana Brooks, Second Year Student, Volume VIII
 Box 1 Folder 30-33
1953-1954
Ronald Rosenback and Walter Menninger, First Year Students, Volume IX
Box 1 Folder 34-36
1954-1955
Dana Brook Diaries, Volume X
 Box 2 Folder 1-3
1954-1955
John Patrick Donahue, First Year Student, Volume XI
Box 2 Folder 4-6
1954-1955
John L. Brown, Jr., Fourth Year Student, Volume XII, Diary
Box 2 Folder 7-8
1954-1955
W. Walter Menninger, Jr., Second Year Student, Volume XIII
Box 2 Folder 9-11
1954-1955
W. Walter Menninger, Second Year, Volume XIV
 Box 2 Folder 12-14
1955-1956
W. Walter Menninger, Volume XV
 Box 2 Folder 15-18
1956-1957
W. Walter Menninger, Third-Fourth Year Student, Volume XVI
Box 2 Folder 19-21
1956-1957
W. Walter Menninger, Third-Fourth Year Student, Volume XVII
Box 2 Folder 22-24
W. Walter Menninger, Internship, Volume XVIII
 Box 2 Folder 25-27
W. Walter Menninger, Third Year Student, Interview (original draft)
Box 2 Folder 28
1953
1. Penn Field Notes
 Box 2 Folder 29-32
Jan.-May 1954
2. Penn Field Notes
 Box 2 Folder 33-35
Sept. 1954-May 1955
3. Penn Field Notes
 Box 2 Folder 36-39
Sept.-May 1955
4. Appendix to 3. Field Notes
 Box 3 Folder 1-3
Sept. 1955-Mar. 1956
5. Penn Field Notes
 Box 3 Folder 4-6
1953-1954
6. Penn Stanley Taub, Fourth Year Student
 Box 3 Folder 7
1953-1954
6. Penn Robert Aiken, Third Year Student
 Box 3 Folder 8
1953-1954
6. Penn William Bunney, Second Year Student
 Box 3 Folder 9-10
1953-1954
7. Penn Peter Jenney, Second Year Student
 Box 3 Folder 11
1953-1954
7. Penn Alison Bradley, First Year Student; John Senior, Third Year Student; Mat Aborensen, First Year Student
Box 3 Folder 12
1954-1955
7. Penn Donald Burns, Second Year Student
 Box 3 Folder 13
1954-1955
8. Donald Burns, Second Year Student
 Box 3 Folder 14-15
1954-1955
9. Penn Alan Balsam, First Year Student
 Box 3 Folder 16-19
1954-1955
10. Penn William Bunney, Third Year Student
 Box 3 Folder 20-21
1954-1955
10. Saul Weinberg, Third Year Student
 Box 3 Folder 22-23
1957-1958
Complete Internship Seminar Notes, Soc. 319 and 320
Box 3 Folder 24-25
1954-1955
Field Journal
 Box 3 Folder 26-29
1950
MGH - Dr. Lindemann's Group Counseling
 Box 3 Folder 30
1954-1955
Cornell IIIc and IIId Field Notes
 Box 3 Folder 31
1953
Field Notes: Selvin
 Box 3 Folder 32-33
Profile on Student H
 Box 3 Folder 34
Profile on Student F
 Box 3 Folder 35
1953-1957
Note cards (5x8) - Field Notes (?)
 Box 3 Folder 36
A Study of Medical Education, Opinions and Experience of Medical Students, University of Pennsylvania, 1953: Questionnaires
Box 4 Folder 1
A Study of Medical Education, Opinions and Experience of Medical Students, University of Pennsylvania, 1954: Questionnaires
Box 4 Folder 2
Journal of W. B., Second Year Students, 1953-1954 (originals)
Box 4 Folder 3
Student interviews: W. Reid, 10-28-53-1/13/[54]; Stanley Taub, 10/26/53-1/12/54; A. B., 9/14/53-5/12/54
Box 4 Folder 4
Notes: Field Notes, Reading Notes; 1953-1954
Box 4 Folder 5-6
Renée C. Fox Field Notes, II, 1954-1955
Box 4 Folder 7-10
Student Journal: D. B., Second Year Student, 1953-1954
Box 4 Folder 11
Student Journal: D. B., Third Year Student, 1954-1955
Box 4 Folder 12
Anatomy Lab Workbook, 1955
Box 4 Folder 13
Journal of Saul Weinberg, 3rd Year Student, Volume I - December 1954-May 1955
Box 4 Folder 14
Field Notes, S. W. Bloom, Vol. III, 1955
Box 4 Folder 15
Mary Goss' Report on the Comprehensive Care and Teaching Program of Cornell Medical College, July 20-Oct. 20, 1953; Field Notes/Fox
Box 4 Folder 16
Diary of Dana C. Brooks, Second Year Student; 10/7/1953-6/7/1954; Renée C. Fox, interviewer
Box 4 Folder 17
A Sociological Calendar of Medical School, Part I: First Year, Renée C. Fox, June 1955: Working Paper No. 3 (2 copies)
Box 4 Folder 18
A Sociological Calendar of Medical School, Part II: Second Year, First Trimester; Renée C. Fox, February 26 1956: Working Paper No. 3, also Second Year, Second Trimester; R. C. Fox, June 1956, Working Paper No. 8
Box 4 Folder 19
"psychiatric social worker teaches medical students," Nation Association of Social Workers, 1957
Box 4 Folder 20
Patient Relationships: Old and New Programs; Mary Bright Rowan and Mary Jean Huntington; January 1957; Working Paper No. 1
Box 4 Folder 21
A Sociological Calendar of the First Year of Medical School, Renée C. Fox, June 1958
Box 4 Folder 22
The Effects of the Cornell Comprehensive Care and Teaching Program on the Attitudes and Values of Fourth-Year Medical Students, Patricia L. Kendall and James A. Jones with assistance of Candace Rogers, November 1960
Box 4 Folder 23-24
The Relationship Between Medical Educators and Medical Practitionaers: Sources of Strain and Occasions for Cooperation, Patricia L. Kendall, September 1962
Box 4 Folder 25-26
Notes from University Seminars on the Professions, 1950-1951
Box 5 Folder 1-2
"Summary and Analysis of Replies Received in answer to the Questionnaires on Emotional Needs sent out by Preparatory Commission No. I on Community Needs," Conference on Psychiatric Education, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, June 21-27, 1951
Box 5 Folder 3
Appendix: Movie Study, Ca. 1951
Box 5 Folder 4
Marcia Steinberg study on HIP (Health Insturance Plan of Greater New York), 1972
Box 5 Folder 5
Cornell Journals Wilmot Ball 4th Year Student I
 Box 5 Folder 6
Cornell Journals Wilmot Ball 4th Year Student II
 Box 5 Folder 7
Field Journal Vol. 1 1955-56
 Box 5 Folder 8
Student Journal AB First Year Student 1954-1955 I
 Box 5 Folder 9
Student Journal AB First Year Student 1954-1955 II
 Box 5 Folder 10
Diary of Walter Menninger Cornell 2nd Year Student I (1953 - 1954)(1954 - 1955) Renee Fox
 Box 5 Folder 11
Diary of Walter Menninger Cornell 2nd Year Student II (1953 - 1954)(1954 - 1955) Renee Fox
 Box 5 Folder 12
Field Journal April 22, 1955
 Box 5 Folder 13
Renee Fox-Notes Diary of Henry Erle Nov. 18, 1953 Second Year Class
 Box 5 Folder 14
Fraternities Medical
 Box 5 Folder 15
Journal of Alan Basalm 1955
 Box 5 Folder 16
S. W. Bloom Field Journal 1955
 Box 5 Folder 17
Biographical Questionnaires and Bloom Field Reports
 Box 5 Folder 18
Field Notes - Chance
 Box 5 Folder 19
Journal of Alan Balsam II 1955
 Box 5 Folder 20
Bloom - "Lecture - U. of P. Orientation - Sept. 9, 1954"
 Box 5 Folder 21
Analyses - SWB
 Box 5 Folder 22
Questionnaire Analyses: Preporatory Materials for the 1956 Institute on Evaluation of the Student - The Appraisal of Applicants to Medical Schools
Box 5 Folder 23
Field Journal Volume I S.W. Bloom 1954-1955
 Box 5 Folder 24
Field Journal Volume II S.W. Bloom 1954
 Box 5 Folder 25
FHHS
 Box 5 Folder 26
Field Notes
 Box 5 Folder 27