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Memories
I am told by students that ragging during freshman week is pretty mild compared to what I encountered at Taylor Hall in 1968 and that is a good thing.
2. Buying an old car and getting to know Jamaica as a student.
The camaraderie of medical school, especially among members of the same Lab Group. Today there are 250-300 medical students/year, 40-50 dental students and BBMedSci students and that camaraderie is not there.
Life Highlights
My time at KPH. The amount and variety of trauma at this hospital is amazing. Yet the medical students that we taught there always rated this hospital as the best place to learn surgery.
My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed the two years we lived in Botswana. We got to know the southern African countries of Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe and South Africa very well. We loved driving into the Central Kalahari Desert, flying into camps in the Okavango delta and a 10-day road trip through Namibia was the highlight of our time there.
Coming back to UWI in 2013 to teach anatomy. I started in the old anatomy lab we used as students but we have now moved into a ‘state of the art’ Anatomy Lab in our new BMS Building.