Journey into Medicine

{{short description|1947 film}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2020}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Journey into Medicine

| image =

| caption =

| director = Willard Van Dyke

| producer =

| writer = Irving Jacoby

| narrator = Tony Kraber

| starring = James Karen

| music = Henry Brant

| cinematography = Boris Kaufman

| editing = Aram Boyajian

| studio = United States Information Service

| distributor = U.S. Department of State

| released = {{film date|1947}}

| runtime = 40 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

}}

Journey into Medicine is a 1947 American documentary-style film. The film stars James Karen as Michael Kenneth Marshall, a young medical student who goes through medical training at Columbia and Cornell. During his internship in pediatrics, Marshall loses one of his patients, a young girl to diphtheria. This case inspires him to enroll in the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and pursue a career in public health. While studying at Johns Hopkins, Marshall helps battle an outbreak of diphtheria in Baltimore, which confirms to him his chosen vocation.

The film was made by the United States Information Service for use by the U.S. State Department. The film was meant to be shown outside the United States as a promotional film for American medicine and public health efforts abroad.{{Cite journal|last1=Atwater|first1=R. M.|last2=Brown|first2=W. H.|last3=Calver|first3=H. N.|date=July 1, 1949|title=Journey into Medicine|journal=American Journal of Public Health and the Nation's Health|volume=39|issue=7|pages=947–948|issn=0002-9572|doi=10.2105/ajph.39.7.947-b|pmid=18017047|pmc=1528278}}

The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1948 |title=The 20th Academy Awards (1948) Nominees and Winners |date=October 5, 2014 |accessdate=May 29, 2019 |publisher=Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)}} The Academy Film Archive preserved Journey into Medicine in 2011.{{cite web|title=Preserved Projects|url=http://www.oscars.org/academy-film-archive/preserved-projects?title=journey+into+medicine&filmmaker=&category=All&collection=All|website=Academy Film Archive}} The film is part of the Academy War Film Collection, one of the largest collections of World War II era short films held outside government archives.{{cite web|title=Academy War Film Collection|url=http://www.oscars.org/film-archive/collections/academy-war-film-collection|website=Academy Film Archive}}