LOS ANGELES MEDICAL DEPARTMENT A SCHOOL FOR GRADUATES OF MEDICINE DAVID P. BARROWS, Ph.D., LL.D., President of the University. (The complete list of officers of instruction in the Los Angeles Medical Department is contained in the separate announcement of the department, obtainable from Dr. George H. Kress, 245 Bradbury Building, Los Angeles.) The Los Angeles Medical Department of the University of California is an institution offering instruction to graduates of medicine only. The undergraduate medical work of the University is carried on at Berkeley and at San Francisco. The Los Angeles Medical Department traces its origin to the institution of a college of medicine by the University of Southern California in 1886. From that date until February of 1909 it remained a medical department of the University of Southern California, but in the later year its property was transferred to the University of California. In order not to duplicate the expense of undergraduate teaching, it was decided in 1914 to confine the work of the Los Angeles Medical Department to instruction of graduates of medicine only. The aim of the work is to permit graduates to review past studies, or to pursue courses which would keep them in touch with the recent advances in medicine. The courses offered come under two major heads: 1. The Purely Clinical Courses. In these courses the practitioner attends the dispensary and hospital clinics and, without any obligations on the part of the instructors to give special didactic instruction, follows the clinical work in the dispensary and hospital, and obtains therefrom such knowledge and experience as is possible. 2. The Courses in the Specialties. The work under this heading will be both clinical and didactic. The didactic work will go into considerable detail, but the courses which will be offered will be of different types, according to the capacity of the student to profit therefrom. The clinical work will give the student opportunity to work with patients in the dispensary and at the bedside, so that he may acquire proper methods of technique, and that experience that will enable him in his particular line of work, to have a greater knowledge and capacity than his fellow in general practice. The purely clinical courses in the dispensary and the courses for specialists can be entered at any time and the work will be so arranged that the practitioner can devote practically the whole day to his work. All legally licensed practitioners of the United States will be eligible for admission to these courses, this work being construed to be an expression of the general extension work of the University. Certificates. Certificates of attendance will be granted only to those who pursue courses covering a period of at least three months, and these certificates will be certificates of attendance only. Students pursuing all-day courses of at least three months, and who give notice of a desire to have a certificate of proficiency, must take an examination at the close of their work to determine whether such a certificate of proficiency can be granted. Fees. The fees will be nominal, but in all didactic work there must be at least three students in the class, and if there be a smaller number the fees for such work must equal the total of the tuition which would have been received from at least three students. The facilities for work at Los Angeles are very great, the city itself being given a population of 576,673 by the recent decennial census. Νο city in the United tates has shown the marvelous increase of population as has Los Angeles in the last several decades. The Graves Memorial Dispensary is located in the buildings of the department on North Broadway, between Ord and Alpine streets, which property extends from North Broadway to Castelar street. The street address of the main building is 737 North Broadway. The telephone is Broadway 4538. These buildings offer commodious and well equipped quarters for clinics which handle a total of more than thirty thousand patients yearly. The Barlow Medical Library, adjacent to the college, has on file all the current American and foreign journals and textbooks. At the Los Angeles County Hospital this department has access to about fifteen hundred beds for bedside instruction. Daily clinics are held at the County Hospital. The practitioner can, therefore, spend the hours from 8 to 11 at the County Hospital; the hours from 12 until 3, or later, at the dispensary; and 4 to 5, at the Barlow Medical Library, which is attached to the institution. The catalogue of the department covering the requirements for admission, fees, courses, etc., may be had by writing to the Dean of the department, Dr. George H. Kress, 245 Bradbury Building, Los Angeles, California. |
