Journey Into Medicine (1947)
Directed by Willard Van Dyke · 38 min
1.9 TOPICAL score · #6,548 of 6,776 films
Vote for it on the board →A documentary/recruitment film originally intended for showings outside the United States to promote careers in public health and American methods in public health education. Directed by social documentarian Willard Van Dyke, and delivered entirely in the characteristic voice-over narration of that genre, the film centers around a young doctor, who during the course of his medical residency at the New York Presbyterian Hospital becomes disillusioned with the failures of the medical profession to address larger social and environmental health factors and discovers the field of public health. The young doctor moves to Baltimore to study at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health and finds his professional calling fighting a diphtheria outbreak in the poverty-stricken streets and row-houses of East Baltimore. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, Academy War Film Collection, in 2011.
Journey Into Medicine (1947, directed by Willard Van Dyke) has a TOPICAL score of 1.9 - ranked 6,548 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on awards and historical impact, and lowest on lasting engagement. It won 0 awards from 1 nomination. Audiences: TMDB 6.7/10 (3 ratings). Wikipedia covers it in 5 languages.
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- AudienceTMDB 6.7/10 (3 ratings)
- Awards0 wins, 1 nomination
- ImpactWikipedia articles in 5 languages
- Still read92 Wikipedia readers in the last 60 days
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