Journey Into Medicine

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

December 1, 1947

Original language

English

Spoken languages

English

Countries

United States of America

Director

Willard Van Dyke

Writer

Irving Jacoby

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

Homepage

Official site

IMDb

tt0039517