Faculty & Resident Catalog

The catalog can be searched using two modalities:

1. The simplest modality is to browse the catalog by academic year as if you were flipping through the pages of a book. Click on the "Browse By Year" link and type a year of interest between 1889 and 2014. The search engine will return all faculty members and residents who were in the Johns Hopkins Hospital Department of Pathology in that particular year, sorted by the order in which the names appear in the School of Medicine catalog. You can then browse to a previous or following year or type another year and start again. From the yearly list, you can click on individual names to see their history in the department.
2. The second search modality is to refine your search using the set of 10 search criteria, found on the "Search By Criteria" page. These criteria are:

• First Name
• Last Name
• Gender: Male / Female
• Status: Faculty / Resident
• Faculty Appointment**: Primary / Joint / Emeritus
• Faculty Rank**:
    -in the Regular track
    -in the Special track
• Resident Post Graduate Year (PGY): PGY1 to PGY13
• Chief Resident: Yes / No / Not Applicable
• Academic Year

**Search criteria fields that require explanation:

1. Faculty Appointment: The School of Medicine of the Johns Hopkins University recognizes 3 types of appointments for faculty members: Primary, Joint, and Emeritus, as detailed in the Gold Book: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/som/faculty/policies/goldbook. {Open as PDF}

        Primary appointment is in the department that pays the faculty member's salary and provides for space and other resources. Each faculty member can have one and only one primary appointment.

        Joint appointments are assigned when a faculty member participates in the activities of another department or division. Inter-departmental joint appointments are within departments of the School of Medicine and can be with or without title. In joint appointment with title the full range of academic titles may be used; for example, "Professor of Pathology and Associate Professor of Oncology." In joint appointment without title just the term "Joint Appointment" is used; for example, "Professor of Pathology and Joint Appointment in Dermatology." In either case, when the primary appointment terminates, all interdepartmental joint appointments terminate at the same time. Inter-divisional joint appointments are between two divisions of the University; for example, "School of Medicine and School of Art and Sciences." As before, if the primary appointment terminates for any reason, the inter-divisional joint appointments terminate at the same time.

        Emeritus is a status awarded to faculty members upon retirement from the School of Medicine in recognition of distinguished achievement and service. Emeritus faculty can remain active (i.e. in partial retirement) but cannot be promoted.

Data for Pathology faculty members was derived from these sources:

1. "Catalogue and Announcement" of the School of Medicine, published yearly in the Johns Hopkins University Circulars.
   - Catalogs for academic years 1904-05 through 1934-35 are available online at https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/32721
   - Catalogs for years 1893-94 through 1903-04 and for years 1935-36 through 2010-11 were screened from the printed collection maintained in the School of Medicine Registrar's Office
   - Catalog for year 2011-12 is available online at https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/som/students/academics/catalog/
   - Catalogs for the most recent years are still in preparation. A list of faculty members for these years was provided by Pathology Administration.
   
2. A departmental list prepared by Dr. William MacCallum in 1931, covering the academic years 1893-94 through 1930-31
   
3. A departmental list prepared by Dr. Ella Oppenheimer in 1963, covering the years 1931-32 through 1962-63

Data for Pathology residents was derived from these sources:

1. The MacCallum's list indicated above
2. The Oppenheimer's list indicated above
3. "Catologue and Announcement" of the School of Medicine for the years 1899-1900 through 1958-59
4. An informal list of house staff for the Johns Hopkins Hospital covering the years 1929-30 through 1998-98, provided by the Chesney Medical Archives
5. Yearly resident rotation schedule maintained in the department residency office, covering the years 1999-2000 through present
6. A published list of trustees, professional and administrative staff of the Johns Hopkins Hospital covering the years 1867-68 through 1955-56, available at the Chesney Medical Archives
7. Analysis of yearly departmental photographs, available in the Department of Pathology

The average time for promotion to Assistant Professor was 2.1 years (median 1, minimum 1, maximum 15 years), for promotion to Associate Professor was 5.7 years (median 5, minimum 1, maximum 15), and for promotion to full Professor was 9.2 years (median 8, minimum 1, maximum 20).

Residents

In January 1890, less than a year after the opening of the Johns Hopkins Hospital (May 1889), Dr. William Osler, first Physician-In-Chief (May 1889 - June 1905), proposed to the Advisory Board of the Medical School the introduction of a Residency System. A copy of Osler's report, presented at the Board meeting on January 30, 1890, can be viewed here: {OPEN AS PDF}. Osler's residency system was adopted from the German training system, which permitted newly graduated physicians to spend several years living in the hospital to perfect their training. As in the German system, early residents at Hopkins remained for several years (for example, Thayer was a resident for 7 years in Medicine and MacCallum for 10 years in Pathology). In fact, during his 16 years at Hopkins, Osler trained only five Medicine residents (Henry A. Lefleur, William S. Thayer, Thomas B. Futcher, Thomas McCrae, and Rufus I. Cole). The chiefs of the other two clinical services, William S. Halsted for surgery and Howard A. Kelly for gynecology, promptly agreed with Osler's recommendation and selected their first residents. The first five resident surgeons were Frederick J. Brockway, Hardy Phippin, William H. Baltzell, Joseph C. Bloodgood, and Harvey Cushing. The first five resident gynecologists were Hunter Robb, Albert L. Stavely, William W. Russell, John G. Clark, and Thomas S. Cullen. The Pathologist-in-Chief, William H. Welch, also agreed with Osler's proposal of a residency system since he was already using a similar type of training called fellowship in his Pathological Laboratory even before the opening of the hospital.