Young Career Research Articles

Some thoughts on the Training and Career Development of the Chartered Engineer in the Railway Industry

SYNOPSIS Training and career development of the Chartered Engineer in the Railway Industry has changed greatly in the last fifteen years. A degree or its equivalent is now obligatory as a basis for Chartered status. Industrial experience has to be condensed and carefully executed and the development of a young man's career must be given greater attention than in the past. Much has been done in recent years, more remains to be done if the right balance in training and development is to be achieved. The authors, experienced managers in the Industry, have drawn on their experience to write a paper in which some of the answers are given, which should provoke discussion and which it is hoped will be practical and useful.

Getting the lead out.

On December 27, 1972, Mr. William Ruckelshaus, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, announced a 60-day delay in the implementation of regulations that, over the next five years, would reduce the content of lead in gasoline by approximately 1/2. During this delay, which ends March 11, 1973, the administrator is seeking further comment from the public and the scientific community on the hazards to health from airborne lead. This issue is said to be the most controversial to face the agency in its young career, and the nature of its resolution will be critical to the public welfare. Each year . . .

Young Doctors' Careers

Young Doctors' Careers

Young Doctor's Careers

Young Doctor's Careers

Introduction of the Carman Lecturer

Mr. President, Members of the Society and Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen: The privilege of introducing our 1954 Carman Lecturer is gratefully acknowledged and sincerely appreciated. Barton Rogers Young was born in Spring City, Penna., in 100;3. His premedical and medical school studies were carried out at Temple University, where he received his M.D. degree in 1929. When I moved from San Francisco to Philadelphia in 1930, Bart was a handsome young lieutenant in the United States Navy and had just completed his internship at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital. He resigned his commission to begin a residency in the new department of radiology which we had barely begun to build. Dr. Young's career has been a distinguished one, indeed, and few men have contributed so much to the scientific and organizational aspects of medicine and radiology. Author of some forty scientific journal publications, he was chosen by the Year Book Publishers in 1947 to write the widely used text book, The Skull, Sinuses and Mastoids, published in 1948. To each of the eight annual volumes (1946 to 1953 inclusive) entitled Progress in Neurology and Psychiatry, (New York, Grune and Stratton), Dr. Young contributed a valuable chapter on “Radiology of the Skull and Central Nervous System.” To the Nelson Loose-Leaf Roentgenology, edited by Dr. Ross Golden (1948), he contributed a chapter on “Radiology of the Soft Tissues of the Air and Food Passages of the Neck.” Dr. Young has frequently been elected to important offices in medical and radiological organizations. To mention but a few, he was elected President of his Medical Alumni Association in 1941; a member of the Council, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, in 1953; Secretary of the Philadelphia Roentgen Ray Society in 1936 and its President in 1945. Continuously to the present moment he has been a member of the Board of Chancellors of the American College of Radiology since 1952, and Secretary of the American Roentgen Ray Society since 1949. Dr. Young's academic career is note-worthy. At the conclusion of his residency in 1933 he became Instructor in Radiology at Temple University, School of Medicine. His colleagues on the Faculty repeatedly voted for his advancement, and in 1945 he became Professor of Radiology. When he moved away to become Director of the Department of Radiology at the Germantown Hospital in 1945, he was asked to accept a continuing appointment as Clinical Professor of Radiology. Since this change of status in 1948, Dr. Young has continued to teach, and his weekly Monday afternoon Conferences on Roentgen Diagnosis in the Abdomen, at our Medical School X-ray Museum, are extremely well attended and may be presumed to have had some influence upon his choice of a subject for the Carman Lecture of 1954.

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Prof. John Young

JOHN YOUNG was born in Edinburgh in 1835. He was educated at the High School and at the University, and finally he graduated as doctor of medicine. Like many of his time, he came under the spell of the great teachers who then made the northern university famous, such men as Goodsir, Edward Forbes, Christison, Syme and Simpson, and there is reason to believe that in particular the first two gave a scientific bias to Dr. Young's career. For some time he worked on the staff of the Ordnance Survey and made a friend of Sir Roderick Murchison, then a leader in the geological world. This was followed by his appointment to the chair of natural history in the University of Glasgow in 1866, and in this chair he taught both zoology and geology for nearly thirty-five years. After a period of failing health, he died on December 13, 1902. Such, in brief, is an outline of his career, but those who knew Dr. Young will recognise how imperfect a representation it is of the man's personality. Gifted with a keen and penetrating intellect and a fertile imagination, showing versatility of acquirements rarely met with, absolutely unconventional, he was also a man of untiring and restless energy. He was a scholar in a high sense of the term, he possessed a cultivated and pure literary taste, he was an artist facile both with brush and pencil, and he had a wide and critical taste in music. As keeper of the Hunterian Museum, he acquired much knowledge of rare books and manuscripts, of the great collection of coins and medals to be found there, and of works of art. Wide, however, as was the sphere of his activity in the University, he yet found time for active labours in the cause of female education, in the work of the Technical College, and in the municipal and social life of the city of Glasgow. It was this versatility and superabundant energy that hindered Dr. Young from doing the amount of original work in the two sciences of zoology and geology which might have been, expected from a man of his genius, and the vvoik of his life must not be judged from this point of view. His chief labour, perhaps, was the systematic arrangement of the great legacy of William Hunter-books, pictures, medals, engravings, coins-and in this work he took a keen delight and over it he spent laborious hours, even far on into the night when silence reigned in the cloisters. But it was the man's individuality of character that made him a force in his time. Often a determined opponent, he could also be a true friend, while his mental moods, sometimes quiet and observant, ofttimes brilliant and radiant with flashes of wit and humour, constrained even those who knew him best to regard him as a man quite by himself. He has thus left little of an enduring character in the literature of science, but he will be long remembered by many generations of students in the University of Glasgow.