Charles V. Roman: Physician, Writer, Educator, Historian (1864-1934)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
CHARLES VICTOR ROMAN was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and educated at Hamilton Collegiate Institute in Ontario, Canada. Because of racial discrimination in the United States, African Americans in search of higher education often went abroad to study. On his return, Roman became office assistant to Robert F. Boyd, a practicing physician, professor at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, and founder of Mercy Hospital, Nashville, then the largest hospital in the South to be owned and managed by African Americans. In 1899, Roman graduated with a medical degree from Meharry and subsequently attended first the Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital of Chicago and then the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital and Central London Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital in England. He opened his first medical practice in Dallas, Texas, and then opened a practice specializing in otolaryngology in Nashville, Tennessee. Roman was founder and first head of the Department of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology at Meharry Medical College, where he also served as professor of medical history and ethics. He also was Director of Health at Fisk University, Nashville,1 wrote a history of Meharry Medical College,2 and was President of the National Medical Association and the first editor of the Journal of the National Medical Association. He wrote prolifically for the Journal, while also undertaking an active professional life as speaker, organizer, and educator. The excerpt published here,3 one of Roman's many contributions to the Journal of the National Medical Association, demonstrates his energy, passion, and eloquence. He first delivered this as an address at the Semi-Centennial Celebrations of Howard University in Washington, DC, on March 2, 1917.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.008 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".