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Postscript
Acknowledgements
References

Postscript

This brief report was begun in 1996 in anticipation of the 1997 Centennial of the Department. A great deal has transpired since the writing began. Expansion of the University of Pennsylvania Health System generated increasing demands for rehabilitation services throughout the System. The number of satellite facilities for physical and occupational therapy increased, both as free-standing operations and as part of hospital acquisitions (e.g., Phoenixville Hospital). As the missions of the core hospitals (Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Presbyterian Hospital, and Pennsylvania Hospital) became defined, plans were made to satisfy their respective needs for rehabilitation services. Divisions of the Department were established at Presbyterian and Pennsylvania Hospitals. The Department set up rehabilitation activities at Radnor and these prospered.

Another landmark event in 1997 was the return of all physical and occupational services throughout the University of Pennsylvania Health System, as well as Orthotics and Prosthetics, to the aegis of the Department. Plans are currently under way to reincorporate these activities into the Department in keeping with its mission and responsibilities in clinical activities, research and teaching.

As the Department embarks upon its expanded roles within the University and the Health System, it is poised to further its scholarly and research ambitions as well as playing an essential role in the evolving University of Pennsylvania Health System: as part of a distinguished research University, it plans to take full advantage of the talents and facilities that surround it; as part of the Health System, it will take full advantage of opportunities for education and research throughout the System while constantly seeking to provide a continuum of effective and efficient care for those who require rehabilitation services.

Acknowledgements

In the course of its evolution, the Department has changed names and moved from site to site on campus. These forced marches, with their attendant dislocations and relocations, have complicated the documentation of persons and places involved in the natural history of the Department.

In order to provide a nucleus for future health professional and scholars interested in Rehabilitation Medicine, Mary Berwick, Ph.D. undertook to search University archives as well as materials held by the libraries of the University of Pennsylvania and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in order to gather relevant information. This proved to be a more formidable task than either she or I had anticipated. Nadine Landis, M.S.N. then pitched in to provide most of the illustrations for this publication. Deborah Franklin, Ph.D., M.D. helped with the editing. Betsy Ann Bozzarello, Kimberly Secreto and Amy Johnston added critical reviews and revisions to the process. I am greatly indebted to these individuals for providing the substance, illustrations and critique that made this publication possible.

Alfred P. Fishman, M.D.
Chairman
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine

REFERENCES

1. Annual Reports of the Board of Managers of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 1899-1903.
2. Ibid., 1904-1905.
3. McGill, Jean The Joy of Effort, 19800 Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, Alger Press p. 38-50.
4. Ibid., p. 44.
5. Ibid., p. 67.
6. McKenzie, R. Tait Exercise in Education and Medicine, 1909 W. B. Saunders, Co., Philadelphia, PA p.12.
7. Annual Reports of the Board of Managers of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 1913.
8. Gritzer, Glenn The Making of Rehabilitation: A Political Economy of Medicine Specialization 1985 Berkley University of California Press p. 41
9. McKenzie, R. Tait Reclaiming the Maimed 1918 The Macmillan Company, New York p. 1.
10. Ibid., p. 23-36.
11. United States Army Medical Services. Medical Department of the United States Army in the World War v1. The Surgeon General's Office 1923 Government Printing Office, Washington DC p. 424.
12. Ibid., p. 428.
13. Ibid., p. 431.
14. Ibid., p. 480.
15. Ibid., p. 484.
16. McKenzie, R. Tait Reclaiming the Maimed 1918 The Macmillan Company, New York p. 105.
17. Ibid., p. 107.
18. Stevens, Rosemary American Medicine and the Public Interest 1971 New Haven, Yale University Press p. 157.
19. Vogel, EE "The Beginnings of Modern Physiotherapy" Phys Ther 1976 56 15-22.
20. Dowlin, Cornell M. The University of Pennsylvania Today 1940 Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press p. 124.
21. United States Army Medical Services. Surgery in World War II 1970 The Surgeon General's Office, Department of the Army, p. 82.
22. Rusk, Howard A. A World to Care For 1972 New York Random House Chapters IV & VII.
23. Paul, John R. A History of Poliomyelitis 1971 New Haven and London: Yale University Press p. 340
24. Piersol, GM "Physical Medicine Comes into its Own at Pennsylvania" 1944 Gen Mag Hist Chron (Summer) 197.
25. Cole, TM "The Greening of Physiatry in a Golden Era of Rehabilitation" 1993 Arch Phys Med Rehabil 74 231-237.
26. Piersol, GM 1944 p.200.
27. Rehabilitation Commission University of Pennsylvania Final Progress Report to the National Foundation 1961.
28. Ibid.
29. Ibid.
30. Ibid.
31. Piersol, GM Editorial "Is Physical Medicine Oversold?" 1952 Arch Phys Med 33 299.
32. University of Pennsylvania press release, 1975.
33. Fenderson DA "A Study of Undergraduate Teaching Program in Rehabilitation Medicine in American Medical Colleges" 1966 Arch Phys Med Rehab 47 227.
34. Hajj, A personal communication, 1995.
35. Report of the Center for Information Resources, 1990.
36. Resource Document for Academic Review, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine 1990.
37. Ibid.