HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS The position of interne in the University of California Hospital is open each year to six members of the graduating class who recommend themselves to the Faculty by their general fitness for the appointment. Internes serve for one year and have opportunities for obtaining experi ence in various fields of medicine and surgery. Interneships in the San Francisco Hospital also are awarded to two members of the graduating class upon the recommendation of the Faculty. Interneships in some of the private hospitals in San Francisco are filled annually either upon the recommendation of the College of Medicine or by competitive examina The fees are payable at the time of matriculation. Students may pay one-half of the tuition fee at the beginning of each term. A key and breakage deposit of $25 is required for the use of lockers and to cover the cost of material used in the laboratories and damage to College buildings and equipment. At the close of the session the unexpended balance is returned to the student. A rental of $5 a year is charged for the use of a microscope, and $2 for an immersion lens. Each student must provide himself with a microscope. LIBRARY Through the generosity of Mrs. Phoebe Hearst and Mrs. William H. Crocker, the departmental collections in anatomy, physiology and pathology are unusually complete. The hospital library contains 3,000 volumes, including many of the current text books and better monographs. Current numbers of the best American, English, French and German journals are kept on file and during the coming year instruction will be give in historical medicine, in the use of catalogues, indices, etc., in order to encourage, in every way possible, the student's work in the library. ORGANIZATION OF INSTRUCTION Summary of Courses. Instruction is divided into three classes: didactic, demonstrative, and practical. Under the head of didactic instruction are comprised lectures, recitations, and conferences. Under the head of demonstrative instruction are included demonstrations and clinics. Under the head of practical instruction are grouped all varieties of work which the students do for themselves-laboratory session, bedside study, and sectional dispensary work. Eighteen hours of didactic teaching constitute one unit, while thirtysix hours of demonstrations and clinics have the same value. This is also the valuation for such practical courses as include the entire instruction in the subject. Fifty-four hours of practical work which is associated with a didactic course constitute one unit. The unit-valuation of practical work thus depends upon whether it is a part or the whole of the instruction, since the scope of work will obviously be different. For example, the laboratory work in physiology accompanies a didactic course upon physiology, and the ward classes in surgery accompany didactic and clinical courses in surgery. Of such practical work fifty-four hours constitute a unit. On the other hand, the laboratory course in bacteriology comprises all the work in bacteriology, and possesses the corresponding scope, and of this work thirty-six hours constitute one unit. Thirty-two to thirty-six units represent the work of the average year. Exceptional students can carry two to four units more, and are urged to elect them. So far as has been possible, the work has been concentrated. Students may take advantage of the elective courses offered by the departments of Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology. Instruction extends through thirty-six weeks. CLASS STANDING AND EXAMINATION For the determination of class standing and for advancement and graduation the results and markings of all studies and examinations conform to the procedures followed in the Academic Department of the University. The numerals 1, 2, 3 indicate that the student has passed in the first, second and third grade; 4 indicates condition; 5 failure. Under the term "Examination" is understood the judgment of the instructor upon the work of a student. This judgment may be reached in three ways: by personal contact with the students and observation of their routine work, by oral examinations, and by written examinations. During or at the close of each academic year the following examinations are held: First Year.-Microscopic anatomy, chemical physiology, systematic human anatomy. Second Year.-Regional and topographical anatomy and normal physical diagnosis, neurology, physiology, pharmacology and pathology, comprising bacteriology, protozoology, immunology, morbid anatomy and histo-pathology. Third Year.-Materia Medica, clinical pathology, obstetrics, surgery. medicine and hygiene. Fourth Year.-Medicine, therapeutics, surgery, gynecology, operative obstetrics, medical jurisprudence, pediatrics, dermatology, otology, rhinology and laryngology, ophthamology, urology, neurology and psychiatry, orthopedic surgery and radiography. Students who fail to pass the examinations in three or more subjects must repeat the year, the branches in which they were conditioned constituting their curriculum. Those students who fail in two courses must pass one of them before the opening of the academic year following that in which they were incurred, so that not more than one condition can be carried into the second, third, or fourth year; and this must be passed in order to render the student eligible for the examinations held at the end of that session. A condition in any subject completed in a given year must be removed within thirty days following the opening of the succeeding academic session. Under all circumstances prerequisites must be respected. Inasmuch as there will be no opportunity during the clinical years to make up practical courses, no student will be permitted to carry into the third year a condition in a course which includes laboratory work. Fourth-year students who fail in one or two branches may reappear for examination after three months. In the event of their passing the examinations at that time they will be recommended to the Board of Regents for the degree; should they then fail in one branch even, they must repeat their fourth year, the branches in which they were conditioned constituting their curriculum. To the heads of the departments is reserved the right to determine whether a student who has failed in a course shall be entitled to appear for reexamination at the beginning of the next academic year, or be required to repeat the course. The Faculty reserves the right to sever the connection of any student with the Medical Department at any time for what it deems either mental or moral unfitness for a career in medicine. REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION 1. The candidate for the degree of Doctor of Medicine must have attained the age of twenty-one years. He must give satisfactory evidence of possessing a good moral character, which includes unexceptional conduct while in the department. 2. He must have studied medicine four full years, and must have attended four regular courses in separate calendar years, the last of which must have been in the University of California. 3. He must have done the required work and passed the stated examinations. 4. He must have paid in full the college fees. |