OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES OF THE FACULTY
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
THE STAFF OF VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
Regular member of Department of Preventive Medicine working together with Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
STAFF OF THE OUT-PATIENT SERVICE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
GENERAL INFORMATION
There are remnants of the original Carnegie gifts and the funds allocated by the General Education Board and the Carnegie Corporation sum to endow the Vanderbilt Medical School and University Hospital. The Faculty of Medicine building is located in the southeast corner of the University campus. The building on the west side of the courtyard contains laboratories for gross and microscopic anatomy, pathology, and bacteriology.
The laboratories in these buildings are designed especially for use by the school's clinical departments. The building for the School of Nursing is in accordance with the building of the medical school. The powerhouse is located on the west side of campus, facing Twenty-fourth Avenue.
The outpatient clinic occupies the entire first floor of the southern part of the building. The surgical operating rooms are located above the central part of the medical school, facing north.
REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION
Students from foreign universities of recognized reputation who have completed at least the equivalent of three years of collegiate education may be admitted to the School of Medicine at the discretion of the Admissions Committee. Because admission to the School of Medicine is competitive, students are selected based on the quality of their university work and the applicant's overall suitability for the study of medicine. The number of students admitted to the first year of the School of Medicine is limited to fifty.
A small unmounted photograph is also required at this time, and the Medical Scholastic Aptitude Test of the Association of American Medical Colleges should be taken during the year prior to application for admission to the School of Medicine. Almost all medical schools propose to use the test as one of the factors in the selection of students for admission. Application for admission may be made at any time after the commencement of the applicant's final year of pre-medical work.
This deposit is credited towards the payment of the first tuition, and if the student does not matriculate, it is non-refundable. All students are required to register and pay the fees for the first trimester at the opening of the session and the rest in equal installments at the beginning of the second and third trimesters.
EXAMINATIONS AND PROMOTIONS
Students desiring information regarding this course should write to Dean Philip Davidson of Vanderbilt University's College of Arts and Sciences. Applicants must submit acceptable evidence that they have met the requirements for admission and that they have satisfactorily completed all work required of students in the class in which they wish to enroll at an accredited medical school. Students will be notified when the promotion committee assesses that their work is of poor quality, thereby alerting them to the need for greater effort to perform school work.
Any student who demonstrates by his work or behavior that he is unfit to practice medicine may, at the discretion of the Faculty of Management, be required to withdraw from the School at any time. Any student who fails a course may be required, in the following term, to fulfill departmental requirements and take an examination in the course at the end of the term following that in which the failure was achieved. Elective units can also be obtained for special work performed or accepted by any department, if this work is assessed as high-quality by the faculty committee.
They must have satisfactorily completed all the required courses of the medical curriculum, passed all prescribed examinations and be free of debt to the University. At the end of the fourth year, every student who has met these requirements will be recommended for the degree of Doctor of Medicine.
FEES AND EXPENSES
Candidates for the degree of Doctor of Medicine must have reached the age of twenty-one years and be of good moral character. They must have spent at least four years of study as medical students, the last two of which must have been at this school. To assist first-year students in purchasing a microscope, the School of Iedicine will advance three-quarters of the purchase price, repayable in three equal installments, payable during their second, third and fourth years.
AI students must be equipped with hemocytometers and hemoglobinometers before the start of the second quarter of the second year. Students are also required to be equipped with lab coats and to wear clean white clothing when working in hospital wards and the outpatient service. Students who withdraw from the University for any reason or who are dismissed or required to withdraw from the faculty after the commencement of a term may not claim and are not entitled to any refund or payment of tuition, fees, room rent or any other . regular fees or assessments.
ROOM AND BOARD
Graduate Residence-Doubles in this small residence hall at 2119 Garland Avenue, across from Vanderbilt Hospital, are available to graduate students and students in the School of Medicine. Accommodations and conditions are the same as for Wesley Hall, described in the paragraph above. There are three medical fraternities with chapters at Vanderbilt, Alpha Kappa Kappa, Phi Beta Pi, and Phi Chi.
A large number of the men enjoy the benefits of living together in these fraternity houses. They meet the same inspection standards as are required for the university's housing arrangements. The prices in these are about the same as in the fraternity houses, $3S to $40 per. month.
The average annual expenditure of a student at the School of Medicine, excluding clothing and incidental expenses, is estimated from the foregoing items to be approximately $1,000 to $1,200.
HONORS AND ORGANIZATIONS
The first series of Abraham Flexner Lectures was given in the fall of 1928, by Dr. Heinrich Poll, Director of the Anatomy Institute of the University of Hamburg, Germany. The tbird series was given in the winter of 1933 by Dr. Francis R. Fraser, Director of the Medical Unit and Professor of Medicine at St. John's Hospital and Medical School. Bartholomew, London, Eng'land. 53 The fifth series was given in the spring of 1937 by Dr. Thorvald Madsen, Director of the State Serum Institute of Denmark.
The sixth series was given in the spring of 1939 by Dr. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Professor of Medical Chemistry and Director of the Institute of Medical Chemistry at the Royal Hungarian Franz Joseph's University, Szeged, Hungary. The seventh series was given in the spring of 1942 by Dr. Donald D. Van Slyke, Member of the Rockefeller Institute and Dr. Warfield T. Longcope, professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. This lecture is delivered under the auspices of the School of Medicine faculty.
These meetings are open to students of the school and the medical profession in the community. The library of the Faculty of Medicine contains 48,723 volumes and receives 879 current periodicals and serials.
GENERAL PLAN OF INSTRUCTION
During the fourth year, students are also given the opportunity to master some of the simpler methods used by specialists. During the second half of the course, students learn as much as possible through practical work, and every effort is made to develop healthy and well-trained practitioners of medicine. Finally, during the fourth year, preventive medicine and public health courses are taught, with the aim of familiarizing the student with the main aspects of disease prevention and control.
We try to interest the student in the relationship of illness and injury to society and to awaken in him the awareness of his wider obligations to his community and its social organization. Various aspects of disease prevention are presented throughout the medical curriculum with the aim of imbuing the medical graduate with the "preventive idea". The clinic is used for practical knowledge of the social aspects of disease, as well as the application of principles of prevention in connection with medical practice. COURSES OFFERED TO CANDIDATES FOR GRADUATE DEGREE Candidates enrolled in graduate studies at the University for the degree of Master of Science or Doctor of Philosophy may pursue work in the medical sciences conducted in the School of Medicine!' in regular subjects or in special elective subjects, if they are accepted by the heads of departments.
Master's work in the medical sciences is regulated by the faculty at the university's PhD school. Postgraduate teaching at the School of Medicine has been placed under the direction of a faculty committee and a director of Postgraduate Instruction in collaboration with the heads of department.
COURSES OF INSTRUCTION
Lectures and laboratory work six hours per week during the third trimester of the second year. Sixteen hours of lecture and laboratory work per week during the first trimester of the second year. Four lectures and seven hours of laboratory work per week during the second trimester of the second year.
This course is given three hours per week during the first trimester of the second year, on Thursday afternoons. Two lessons and one afternoon (three hours) per week during the first and second trimester of the fourth year. Seven hours of lectures, demonstrations and practical work per week during the third trimester of the second year.
DEPARTMENTAL WORK.-0 one-third of the third-year class is assigned to the medical departments during a trimester. Two hours per week in the first and second trimesters and one hour per week in the third trimester of the fourth year. The student is instructed in the methods for physical examination of the abdomen, spine, joints.
Approximately eighteen hours per week during half of one trimester of the third year, excluding deliveries.
REGISTER OF STUDENTS
POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS 1943-1944
INTERNSHIPS AND APPOINTMENTS Class of December, 1943
HONORS
