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(d) children's. Each ward unit is provided with its own teaching-room and laboratory.

As the investigation of obscure diseases and the instruction of medical students and post-graduates are two of the chief aims of the hospital, facilities for these purposes have been carefully provided.

There are four main operating rooms and two smaller operating rooms for use of the specialists. A separate entrance and lobby is provided for students. By this arrangement greater privacy is obtained for patients. This arrangement also possesses great advantages for the students as well as the staff.

Similarly throughout the hospital its efficiency as a teaching institution has been kept paramount. The construction is such that the capacity of the hospital may be doubled at comparatively small expense.

THE SAN FRANCISCO HOSPITAL

The San Francisco Hospital has occupied its new buildings since July 1, 1915.

The present group consists of an executive building and sixteen large wards, with well arranged service rooms and clinical laboratories adjacent.

One wing contains the surgical unit, with six large operating rooms and the amphitheater, a well equipped Roentgen-ray department, and an emergency hospital. This latter will, during the coming year, serve as the main operative department for the city's Emergency Service, and will give unexcelled advantages to the interns and students in emergency surgical work.

The pathological building is now nearing completion. On the first floor there is a morgue room, with twenty-four De Camio mortuary slabs, so that bodies may be kept in refrigeration. Adjoining this is a large pavilion and amphitheater for post-mortem work and a series of rooms, kennels for research work, preparation rooms, etc. The second floor, when completed, will be used as the main chemical and biological laboratories of the Department of Public Health. Opportunity will be furnished here for interns to receive instruction in laboratory work, including the examination of milk, water, blood, toxicological specimens and preparation of vaccines.

The post-mortem material in the hospital is invaluable.

The new tuberculosis wards to accommodate 250 beds and the isolation wing of 110 beds for infectious diseases are now in the course of construction.

The Medical School controls approximately 100 beds (exclusive of the tuberculosis wards). These are equally divided for instruction in clinical medicine, clinical surgery, and the specialties. Additional wards are used

for the teaching of gynecology and obstetrics and pediatrics. The laboratories adjacent to the wards are fully equipped for the use of interns and students and the new laboratory building will give opportunity for special research.

OUT-PATIENT DEPARTMENT

The Out-Patient Department of the University Hospital provides facilities for instruction in all branches of clinical medicine and surgery. Diseases of every type are treated in the various clinics, each of which is under the surpervision of a chief who is responsible for the instruction of the students.

During the third year and the first half of the fourth year groups of students are assigned to the clinics in medicine, surgery, woman's, pediatrics, dermatology, urology, ophthalmology, laryngology, orthopedic surgery, etc. In the last half of the fourth year students may elect to act as clinical clerks in some of the departments mentioned.

A large and varied clinical material is available and each year the growth of this department has been manifested by a continuous increase in the number of patients treated during the year. At present the daily average number of visits to the clinics is over 240. On account of this increase, clinics are being started in the afternoons to take care of the overflow. At these afternoon clinics in pediatrics fourth year students are assigned for definite clinical work. With this exception, all clinics are held simultaneously in the morning, so that patients may be referred from one clinic to another with great facility.

SOCIAL SERVICE DEPARTMENT

The Social Service Department has been thoroughly organized for the past two years. During 1916-17 there have been workers in the medical, woman's and children's clinics, and in addition voluntary assistance by students of the University has aided materially in carrying on the work of this department. The Social Service Department is in touch with all the various sources for medical care throughout the city, which very greatly facilitates the referring of cases to and from institutions and associations. A course for social service workers is being offered by the department in conjunction with the Department of Social Economics of the University. This work is under the direction of Dr. Louise Morrow, who is connected with the latter department as a lecturer and with the Medical School as assistant in pediatrics. An opportunity to study medical social service is offered to students working in the Out-Patient Department.

TUBERCULOSIS CLINICS

The Department of Tuberculosis is under the charge of Dr. George H. Evans and is now maintained in conjunction with the San Francisco Society for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. Upon the construction of an out-patient building this clinic will be established in conjunction with the Out-Patient Department of the University Hospital. Dr. Evans is also in charge of the University of California Medical School's service at the tuberculosis wards of the San Francisco Hospital. By this arrangement tuberculous patients of all types are available for investigation and teaching purposes.

THE CANCER WARD

Through the generosity of a friend of the Medical School a ward in the hospital is reserved for the treatment of patients suffering from malignant diseases. Advanced and inoperable cases are received, as well as those not too far advanced to be benefited by surgical or other treatment. Thus the variety of cases and the long residence of certain of them afford an unusual opportunity to observe all phases of malignant diseases.

THE HOOPER FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH

The institution is located in a building adjacent to the hospital and its Director is also Professor of Research Medicine in the Medical School. A number of beds in the hospital are at the disposal of the Foundation and are occupied by patients suffering from diseases which at the moment are the subject of study and investigation by members of the Research Laboratory staff.

Professor Whipple and his associates offer elective courses to the medical students and a limited number of students may undertake research problems. The selection of such students will depend upon their fitness for this work. Opportunities also will be afforded graduates in medicine who wish to enter upon a career of research.

TEACHING FACILITIES AT THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL

An agreement with the Hospital for Children and Training School for Nurses adds a large amount of available teaching material. The children's medical, surgical, and orthopedic services have about seventy beds. available for teaching purposes, and with the contagious pavilion the opportunities for instruction are very good. Opportunities for small sections to elect work in the Children's Hospital is possible.

COURSES IN HOMEOPATHY

The Regents of the University have accepted the proposal of the Hahnemann Medical College of the Pacific and now offer elective courses in homeopathy in the University of California Medical School upon the following basis:

1. Beginning in August, 1915, all students matriculating in medicine must fulfill the requirements demanded by the University of California Medical School.

2. Instruction in Homeopathy is in charge of two professors, a Professor of Homeopathic Materia Medica and a Professor of Applied Homeopathic Therapeutics.

3. All students in the first two years take all work in common except in Materia Medica. In this subject 32 hours of so-called "Regular'' Materia Medica and 32 hours of Homeopathic Materia Medica is given in the second half of the second year. Students may elect either one of these courses and hours of instruction are so arranged as to permit of election of both courses by all students who may so desire.

4. In the third and fourth years all students take the same courses except in Materia Medica and Therapeutics and Clinical Medicine. Elective courses in these subjects is offered so that students may choose whether they take work under instructors of the so-called "Regular'' or of the "Homeopathic" school.

SCHOLARSHIPS

Through the generosity of Mrs. Frances B. Sanborn, one of the three scholarships known as the Sheffield Sanborn Scholarships has been assigned to the Medical School. This scholarship yields $250 per annum at present and is open only to students who have not yet received the degree in medicine and who otherwise would not have the opportunity to acquire a university training.

The Willard Thompson Scholarship is open to students of the Medical School who are residents of Utah. This scholarship yields $600 per

annum.

Recently the alumni of the Medical School have established a scholarship known as the "William Watt Kerr Scholarship in Medicine." It yields $400 per annum and is awarded to a worthy student of the Medical School.

Applications for these scholarships should be filed with the Recorder of the Faculties by March 1 of each year. A blank form of application may be obtained from the Recorder of the Faculties at Berkeley.

FELLOWSHIPS

Two fellowships are offered by the George Williams Hooper Foundation for the year 1917-18. Each student fellow receives a grant of $600 and is charged no medical school nor laboratory fees. Applicants must have had at least one and one-half years of medical school training in the University of California Medical School or its equivalent. A year is devoted to this work, and consists mainly of research in experimental medicine. This work will be in part independent but in part coöperative research with other members of the laboratory staff. The fellow is expected to do some advanced work in gross pathology, and get a broad training in pathological anatomy. The work of this fellowship should give the research fellow exceptional training in the fundamental medical sciences and a broader outlook in general medicine. The value of this fundamental training to the medical student can not be overestimated, and a true understanding of research medicine can be obtained in no other way.

The work done under this fellowship, if satisfactory, may count as the fifth year in medicine. If the necessary preliminary requirements have been fulfilled, it may also count toward the attainment of a higher degree (Master's Degree or Doctor of Philosophy).

HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS

Internships in the University Hospital are open to eleven graduates of the University of California Medical School or of some other approved medical school. Ten interns are assigned to the various clinical departments and one as pathological intern. Interns serve for one year, without salary. The appointments are made upon the recommendation of the Advisory Board of the Medical School, which takes into account both the character of the work of the candidate throughout his entire career in the Medical School and also his general fitness.

Internships in the San Francisco Hospital also are awarded to six members of the graduating class. Positions in some of the private hospitals in San Francisco are filled annually either upon recommendation of the Medical Faculty or by competitive examination.

The Regents of the University have provided positions for residents in medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, and pediatrics, and assistant residents in surgery, gynecology and obstetrics and pediatries at the University Hospital. These appointments, not necessarily limited to one year, are open to graduates in medicine who have had previous hospital experience and possess suitable qualifications for the work. The

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