LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF THE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE BENJ. IDE WHEELER, Ph.D., LL.D., President of the University, ex officio President of the Faculty. W. JARVIS BARLOW, A.B., M.D., Dean of the Faculty and Professor of Medicine. GEORGE H. KRESS, B.S., M.D., Secretary of the Faculty and Professor of Hygiene. (The complete list of officers of instruction in the Los Angeles Department of the College of Medicine is contained in the separate announcement of the college, obtainable from Dr. G. H. Kress, Secretary, Los Angeles Department of the College of Medicine.) LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT, COLLEGE OF MEDICINE This institution came under the control of the University of California in February, 1909. Prior to that time its faculty for twenty-four years had been carrying on its work in affiliation with the University of Southern California. Believing that because of the close relation of the physician's work to public health, the training of men and women for the profession of medicine could be carried on to the best advantage of both the individual and the state under the guidance of the State University, the medical faculty of Los Angeles offered its property to the University of California. This offer was accepted by the Board of Regents, and, beginning with the session of 1909-1910, the University of California has conducted departments of its College of Medicine in both San Francisco and Los Angeles. Freshmen students who matriculated in 1910 and thereafter were required to show credentials sufficient for entrance into the University of California plus two years of properly selected college work. See requirements for admission, p. 3. Didactic, Laboratory, and Clinical Facilities for Teaching.—The lecture, laboratory, dispensary and library buildings of the College of Medicine are commodious, well arranged and equipped. The instruction is in charge of experienced teachers whose aim it is to carry on, in the most thorough and successful manner, instruction in a curriculum that is in full accord with the standard of the Association of American Medical Colleges. The respective value of didactic teaching, laboratory work, and elinical demonstration is fully recognized and an effort has been made to give each a place and time in proportion to its importance and value. The laboratory facilities are unusually good and the work laid down is all that a student can thoroughly cover. The clinical teaching is done at the dispensary and at the hospitals. The Selwyn Emmett Graves Memorial Dispensary of the college handles about thirty thousand cases annually, and here the students study in sections and under the supervision of competent instructors all the diseases met with in ordinary practice. At the Los Angeles County Hospital, an institution with over three hundred beds and several thousand patients annually, members of the faculty operate and give lectures and section teaching on patients from the various surgical and medical wards. The Los Angeles Medical Department is now erecting a new hospital on the college grounds, made possible by an appropriation of twenty-five thousand dollars from the last legislature. The Receiving and other semi-public hospitals, the Barlow Sanitorium for Consumptives, as well as a number of private institutions, offer other facilities for clinical observation, excelled by but few cities of like size in the entire United States. LOS ANGELES For its exceptionally all-year-round climate, Los Angeles is well known. In many portions of the East, southern California is thought of only as a winter resort. It is, however, the testimony of those who have had opportunities to observe, that the summer climate of Los Angeles is better than that of the East, even more than its world-famed winter climate excels the changeable and rigorous weather conditions of the Atlantic Coast and Middle West. Few cities in the United States have been making such phenomenal strides in population and wealth as has Los Angeles. In 1890, the census showed a population of 50,000 persons. By 1900, the number had in creased to 102,000. The United States census of 1910 gave the city of Los Angeles a population of 319,198 and the county of Los Angeles a total of 504,131. he official estimate of the population for 1912 is 425,000. This remarkable development still continues. In addition there is a transient or tourist population of many thousands. Living in Los Angeles is as cheap as in any other American city of like size, and the only special extra outlay for a student from the East is the railroad fare. Round-trip excursion tickets can be purchased that are good for nine months. The cost, therefore, of pursuing a medical education at Los Angeles, a trip to California included, is no greater than in eastern cities. ADMISSION AND RESIDENCE For matriculation in the College of Medicine the four years' course leading to M.D.-the student is required to obtain the Junior Certificate in any of the colleges at Berkeley, or to present evidence of an equivalent preparation. He must also give evidence of sufficient training in physics, chemistry, and biology to enable him to pursue with profit the curriculum of the college. He should possess a reading knowledge of German. The following courses now offered represent the minimum of satisfactory preparation in the sciences named. (Numbers refer to the Announcement of Courses for 1912–13): Physics 2A-2B (instead of recitations, courses 3A-3в may be substituted); Chemistry 1A-1B, 3A-3B, 8A-8B, 8c; Zoology, 1A, 1B, 108. Catalogues giving detailed information concerning the above courses may be had on application to the Recorder of the Faculties, of the University of California, Berkeley, California. THE COMBINED COURSE Students in the Colleges of Letters, Social Sciences, or Natural Sciences who have received the Junior Certificate, and who in addition to the work for the Junior Certificate have completed a full year of work in the Upper Division, may, at the beginning of their fourth or senior year in the University, register as students in the College of Medicine and, upon completion of the first year in the College of Medicine, may receive the degree of A.B., B.L., or B.S. Students who enter the College of Medicine in accordance with the foregoing provision will be expected normally to have completed 94 units of University work in the academic departments, including such work in the major courses as may be acceptable to the faculty of the college in which the student proposes to take his academic degree. ADVANCED STANDING Students of recognized medical colleges are admitted to the second-, third, and fourth-year classes only upon examination covering the subjects in which they seek to be accredited. They must first present evidence that they have satisfied the regular matriculation requirements and obtain from the Dean authorization for examination. |