May 2, 2025 | 1:30 p.m. | Davidge Hall
Since 1995, the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM), Baltimore VA Medical Center, and Medical Alumni Association (MAA) have produced an annual conference called “The Historical CPC.”
A CPC, or clinicopathologic conference, is a medical clinical exercise in which the history of a patient’s illness is presented to an experienced clinician for discussion in a didactic setting. This form of conference is used to teach our students and house staff how an experienced clinician would approach a difficult or challenging case.
We present an unusual, modern case on a weekly basis, but once a year we stray from that and discuss a historical figure. This year, it’s Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, a famed novelist who wrote some of the greatest works of Western literature. He bled to death in 1881 at age 59.
Anyone on the UMB campus is invited to attend. Just bring your UM ID with you to Davidge Hall.
This year’s CPC participants are:
- Philip A. Mackowiak, MD ’70, Carolyn Frenkil and Selvin Passen History of Medicine Scholar, UMSOM
- Molly Brunson, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University
The CPC is part of MAA’s 150th Alumni Reunion on May 2-3 in Baltimore.