Complete files of the majority of the important journals ooth in preclinical and clinical subjects are available, and new titles are being constantly added. The Library also contains numerous reference works and bibliographic tools, as well as many well selected basic textbooks and monographs.
A collection of books and journals illustrating the history and development of the literature of medicine, especially that of the United States, is being built up through generous gifts. This collection is being constantly increased, and contains, in addition to books, objects illustrating the history of medicine.
Important reference tools and journals in the pure sciences are available on the campus in close proximity to the Medical School through the facilities of the Joint University Libraries, which con- tained on May 1, 1941, a total of 391,897 volumes.
The students of the first-year class are given, early in the first trimester, a brief period of instruction in the use of the medical li- brary. The students are taught the arrangement of the library, and are made familiar with the use of the bibliographic material avail- able, both English and foreign. The students are shown how to con- sult reference works and indices, and how to prepare bibliographies.
45 cal curriculum is dependent upon knowledge gained in previously re- quired courses. The proper succession of courses is therefore an im- portant factor in determining the medical curriculum. Another im- portant factor is, however, the correlation of courses. In several in- stances courses given simultaneously are planned to supplement and expand each other. Such correlation also allows students to study a subject from different points of view, and one course may often ex- cite an interest in another.
Although there is no sharp demarcation in the curriculum between the laboratory and the clinical courses, the first year and the greater part of the second year are taken up in the study of the medical sciences,-anatomy, biological chemistry, physiology, bacteriology, pathology and pharmacology.
During the third trimester of the second year attention is strongly focused on technical training needed for the study of patients, which is begun in the hospital wards with the beginning of the third year, the students being assigned to the various wards of the hospitals in groups. The fourth year students are assigned to the different di- visions of the out-patient service. By this arrangement the less ma- ture students see the more out-spoken manifestations of disease under conditions which allow their study with greater facility, while the more mature students study the early manifestations of disease, when their recognition is more difficult. The senior students also work more independently, under conditions similar to the actual practice of medi- cine. During the fourth year an opportunity is also given the stu- dents to acquire some of the simpler methods of specialists. No at- tempt is made however, to give them sufficient knowledge or expe- rience, to encourage them to enter upon the practice of a specialty without serious graduate study.
Throughout the latter half of the course the students are taught as far as possible by practical work, and every effort is made to de- velop sound and well-trained practitioners of medicine.
Finally, during the fourth year courses in preventive medicine and public health are given, with the intent of familiarizing the student with the more important aspects of the prevention and control of disease. An attempt is also made to interest the student in the re- lation of disease and injury to society, and to awaken in him a consciousness of his broader obligations to his community and to its social organization. Various aspects of prevention of disease are introduced throughout the entire medical curriculum to the end that the graduate of medicine is imbued with the "Preventive Idea." The
out-patient department is utilized in giving the student a practical knowledge of the social aspects of disease, as well as the application of the principles of prevention in relation to medical practice.
COURSES OFFERED TO CANDIDATES FOR GRADUATE DEGREES Candidates registered for Graduate Instruction in the University for the degree of Master of Science or of Doctor of Philoshophy, may pursue work in the Medical Sciences given in the Medical School, either in regular courses or in special elective courses, provided such students are accepted by the heads of departments concerned. Grad- uate work in the Medical Sciences is regulated by the faculty of the Graduate School of the University. Candidates for graduate degrees should apply to the Dean of the Graduate School.
POSTGRADUATE INSTRUCTION IN MEDICINE
Postgraduate instruction in the School of Medicine has been placed under the direction of a faculty committee and a Director of Post- graduate Instruction, in co-operation with the heads of the depart- ments. Courses may be offered at any time during the year for periods of varying length. Only a limited number of physicians can be admitted to any course.
A description of available courses may be found in the catalog on page 69. More detailed information may be obtained concerning postgraduate instruction by writing to Howard Miltenberger, Regis- trar, School of Medicine.
SUl\Il\IARY OF THE REQUIRED HOURS OF THE CURRICULUM First Year
Subjects Hours
Anatomy 409
Histology 104
Neurology 51
Biochemistry 288
Physiology 288
Psychobiology 11
Total 1151
Second Year
Subjects Hours
Bacteriology 176
Pathology 341
Pharmacology 110
Clinical Pathology 77
Obstetrics ZZ
Medical Statistics 11
Parasitic Diseases S5
Physical Diagnosis 110
Principles of Surgery 55
Surgical Clinics 11
~I edical Clinics 11
Neurological Anatomy 55
Total 1034
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Third Y~ar
Sllbjecls HOllrs
Medicine 287
Surgery 309
Surgical Pathology 99
Obstetrics 209
Pediatrics 110
Pathology 33
Neurology 22
Psychiatry 22
Total 1091
Fourth Year
Subjects HOllrs
Surgery 143
Medicine 154
Preventive Medicine 107 Obstetrics and Gynecology .. 121
Pediatrics 121
Psychiatry 44
Urology 55
Orthopedic Surgery 44
Ophthalmology 44
Otolaryngology 33
Dermatology 22
Neurology 22
Pathology 33
Immunology and Serology .. 22 Medical Jurisprudence 11
Therapeutics 22
Radiology 11
Total 1009