Journey into Medicine

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.

Journey into Medicine
Directed by	Willard Van Dyke
Written by	Irving Jacoby
Starring	James Karen
Narrated by	Tony Kraber
Cinematography	Boris Kaufman
Edited by	Aram Boyajian
Music by	Henry Brant
Production company	United States Information Service
Distributed by	U.S. Department of State
Release date	1947 (1947)
Running time	40 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

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.^[1]

The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.^[2] The Academy Film Archive preserved Journey into Medicine in 2011.^[3] 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.^[4]