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Carel Philip Schokking Department head Carel Philip Schokking (1906-1972) was assisted by chef de policlinique Willem Wesseldijk. Both dermatologists were appointed part-time and maintained their private practices outside Amsterdam. Although the academic hospital was not officially completed until 1966, the new buildings were put into use gradually and the department of dermatology finally moved from their temporary home to the new hospital in 1964. Schokking and Wesseldijk were asked to design the floor plan and to determine the required facilities for the new outpatient clinic, ward and laboratory. They received helpful advice from Professor Jan R. Prakken, then head of dermatology at the Binnengasthuis, the UvA’s academic hospital. In 1965 Götze Lucas Kalsbeek was appointed as a third staff member and chef de clinique. Kalsbeek had received his dermatological training in Utrecht, carrying out research on skin immunofluorescence together with Rudi Harold Cormane.[1] After Wesseldijk left the department in 1966, Schokking asked Eise van Dijk to fill the vacancy to become the new chef de policlinique. Like Kalsbeek, Van Dijk had received his dermatological training in Utrecht. He had completed his PhD thesis on phytophotodermatitis in 1963 and had stayed on in Utrecht part-time. Even with this addition, the staff at AZVU still numbered only 3 dermatologists, each employed on a part-time basis: Schokking, Kalsbeek and Van Dijk. Because the annual number of patients visiting the outpatient clinic kept growing, from 7,840 in 1967 to 13,330 in 1970, it became necessary to recruit several junior doctors to perform outpatient consultations under senior staff supervision. Nevertheless, these junior doctors were not officially in training to become dermatologists. The department was not in fact licenced to provide dermatological training until 1970. Between 1967 and 1969 the tasks of head of department were gradually transferred from Schokking to Van Dijk. Kalsbeek, in the meantime, became increasingly involved in basic research while maintaining his role as chef de clinique for in-patients. Eise van Dijk In 1969 Eise van Dijk (1920-2002) was appointed professor and chair of the dermatology department. He was an excellent clinician and tutor, with an encyclopaedic knowledge of dermatology and a range of other interests. However, he felt himself to be “not built” for basic research. As a consequence, most of his publications appeared in clinically-oriented Dutch or European journals, although he also published studies in The Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.[2,3] In 1970 the department was officially acknowled- ged as a training center for dermatology and venereology. With the department now fully established and the transition to Van Dijk completed, Schokking departed in 1971. At this time, Van Dijk clearly needed new staff members for his outpatient clinic 115 BWEADVSMGFINCORR:Opmaak 1 21-07-2014 17:40 Pagina 115