THE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE

(For Faculty of the College of Medicine, see page 17.)

HISTORY

The College of Medicine, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, is located on the corner of Harrison and Honore Streets, Chicago, in the heart of the medical quarter of the city. It was founded in the year 1882 by a number of representative physicians and surgeons. In 1892 the College had a thorough reorganization, and erected a commodious laboratory building, the first building exclusively for laboratory purposes erected by any medical school in the West. Since that time it has grown with steadiness and rapidity. The attendance in 1895-96 was 235; in 1896-97, 308; in 1897-98, 408; in 1898-99, 514, 35 of the students being women; in 1899-1900 was 579, 43 being women, and in 1900-1901, over 670. It became the Medical Department of the University in April, 1897.

Chicago is already the center of medical study in the United States. Since the winter of 1897-98 it has contained a larger number of medical students than any other city in the western hemisphere. These students are distributed among fourteen medical colleges, of which the College of Physicians and Surgeons is the second, as to the size of its classes, and is not outranked by any in respect to its facilities, or the scope and thoroughness of its curriculum, or in regard to the place it occupies in the esteem of the medical profession.

SESSIONS

Since the first of October, 1900, the work of the College has been continuous. The collegiate year is divided into

three terms of four months each, beginning as nearly as possible the first of October, the first of February, and the first of June. Each term is of sixteen weeks' duration and offers the same amount of work. Attendance upon two terms, that is eight months, of instruction will constitute a year's work.

REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION, SESSION OF

1901-1902

First, a certificate of good moral character from two reputable physicians.

Second, a diploma of an accredited high school or academy of the University of Illinois, or of a similarly accredited school of another university, whose entrance requirements are equivalent to the entrance requirements of the University of Illinois.

Or, third, entrance examination covering the following subjects:

I. ALGEBRA.-Fundamental operations, factoring, fractions, simple equations, involution, evolution, radicals, quadratic equations and equations reducible to the quadratic form, surds, theory of exponents, and the analysis and solution of problems involving these.

2. COMPOSITION AND RHETORIC.-Correct spelling, capitalization, punctuation, paragraphing, idiom, and definition; the elements of Rhetoric. The candidate will be required to write two paragraphs of about one hundred and fifty words each to test his ability to use the English language.

3. ENGLISH LITERATURE.-(a) Each candidate is expected to have read certain assigned literary masterpieces, and will be subjected to such an examination as will determine whether or not he has done so. The books assigned for the next year are as follows:

George Eliot's Silas Marner; Pope's Iliad, Books I., VI., XXII., and XXIV.; The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers in the Spectator; Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield; Coleridge's Ancient Mariner; Cooper's Last of the Mohicans; Tennyson's Princess; Shakspere's The Merchant of Venice; Scott's Ivanhoe; Shakspere's Macbeth; Milton's L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas; Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America; Macaulay's Essays on Milton and Addison.

(b) In addition to the above, the candidate will be required to present a brief outline of American Literature. Hawthorne and Lemmon's Outline of American Literature, or an equivalent.

4. LATIN. Such knowledge of inflections and syntax as is given in any good preparatory Latin book, together with the ability to read simple fables and stories; also four books of Cæsar's Gallic War, or its equivalent in Latin of equal difficulty. The ability to write simple Latin based on the text.

5. GEOMETRY.-Plane Geometry, as given in Wells's or Wentworth's Geometry, or an equivalent.

6. HISTORY.-At least one year in one of the following subjects: (a) The History of England and of the United States; (b) General History; (c) The History of Greece and Rome.

7. PHYSICS.-The elements of physical science as presented in such text-books as Appleton's School Physics, or Avery's Elements of Natural Philosophy, or Carhart and Chute's Elements of Physics, or Gage's Elements of Physics.

The entrance examinations are conducted in writing by a committee outside of the Faculty of the College of Medicine appointed by the President of the University, and are held at the medical college at 10 a. m. on the week day next preceding the opening of each term.

ADVANCED STANDING*

Students who have completed a "medical preparatory course," equivalent to that given by the University of Illinois, and graduates of reputable schools of pharmacy, veterinary science, or dental surgery, whose course extends over two years, may enter the sophomore class and complete their studies upon three years of attendance, provided they fulfill all other requirements for admission and graduation. Students thus advanced may not complain of any conflict of hours, nor absent themselves from any part of the lower conflicting course; but they may make up deficiencies in the work of the winter session during the spring course in such branches as are represented in that course.

*For Combined Undergraduate and Medical course of six years, leading to the degree of B.S. and M.D., see p 140.

COURSE OF STUDY*

The curriculum required for graduation extends over four years. During the first two years the work is confined to the sciences fundamental to practical medicine. During the freshman year this consists of work in histology, biology, embryology, chemistry, human anatomy, physiology, and materia medica. During the sophomore year the study of physiology, chemistry, and human anatomy is continued, and in addition the student takes up pathology, bacteriology, and therapeutics. With the junior year the study of the practical branches of medicine is begun. The entire subjects of medicine, surgery, and obstetrics are covered in recitation courses. The student also begins clinical and bedside work and receives instruction in medical and surgical specialties. More advanced work along the same lines is continued in the senior year. Medicine, surgery, and obstetrics are gone over again, this time in lecture courses and with greater minuteness of detail and profuseness of illustration. The various special departments of medicine and surgery are presented with like thoroughness, and a large part of the student's time is given to clinical study.

METHOD OF INSTRUCTION

During the first two years the time of the students is about equally divided between laboratory and didactic work. The plan of instruction in the College contemplates the freest use of laboratory teaching. Wherever possible practical laboratory work is made to supplement didactic teaching. Students are taught not only by prepared specimens, but they are required to prepare their own specimens from the original material, and are thus made familiar with technical methods, so that they become able independently to carry a technical investigation through all of its stages. During the junior and senior years the time is about equally divided

*For Combined Undergraduate and Medical course of six years, leading to the degree of B.S. and M.D., see p. 140.

between clinical and didactic work, with, perhaps, a preponderance of clinical instruction in the senior year. This clinical instruction is carried on, as far as possible, with the student at the patient's side. Attendance upon clinics is required in the same way as upon lectures, and the students are graded upon, and given credit for, their work in the clinical courses just as they are for the work in the didactic and laboratory courses. The students of the junior and senior years are divided into classes for dispensary and bedside. work, and these classes have instruction in rotation in the various departments of practical medicine and surgery.

EQUIPMENT

The college building is a six-story structure on the corner of two wide streets, with an open space around it on all sides. It is provided with all modern conveniences. It contains three well-lighted and well-ventilated amphitheaters, the smallest of which seats two hundred students. In these amphitheaters the usual lectures are given. Adjacent to the college building on the west is the laboratory building. The laboratories contained therein are among the largest and most complete possessed by any medical college in the United States. They occupy four floors, three of them 25x100 feet each, and one 25x56 feet. Each will accommodate one hundred and twenty students at a time. They are provided with desks and lockers for students' use, and are well adapted to the work for which they are severally intended. Adjoining the laboratories are preparation rooms for the use of demonstrators and professors. There is a bone room, to which students have free access for the study of osteology. In the department of pathology the collections furnish ample material for the macroscopical as well as the microscopical study of diseased tissues. The store rooms are connected with all the laboratories by means of an elevator. The College has for the use of students a large number of modern microscopes of late continental and American patterns, a sufficient