Routine instruction is given on the normal and pathological conditions of the blood; particular attention being paid to accuracy in counting and to the study of the different characteristic blood diseases. If material for use is not present in the wards, specimens from the cabinet are used. An effort is made to familiarize the students thoroughly with the recognition and life history of the malarial parasite. The examination of the urine, normal and pathological, forms an important part of the course, particular attention being paid to the microscopical examination of the sediment. The examination of the sputum and the analysis of the gastric content are adequately considered. Considerable time is devoted to the examination of the feces in health and disease, particularly the recognition of parasites and their ova. Through the courtesy of the officials of the Army General Hospital at the Presidio, use may be made of the abundant tropical material in that institution. 1. Microscopical and Chemical Diagnosis. Third year, four hours a week, throughout the year. Dr. ALLEN. CLINICAL PATHOLOGY. ADELBERT W. LEE, M.D., Instructor in Pathology. 1. Autopsy Course. The classes are divided into suitable sections and instructed at the autopsy in the technic employed in systematic necroscopy. Detailed demonstration of the autopsy findings. Two sections of one half-year each, 1 hour a week. 2. Special Morphological Pathology. In this course the diseases of one or a group or organs are systematically presented from a morphological viewpoint, appropriate gross and microscopical preparations being utilized. Two sections of one half-year each, 1 hour a week. OBSTETRICS. *ALFRED BAKER SPALDING, A.B., M.D., Professor of Obstetrics. 1. Lectures 2 hours per week throughout the year. During the first halfyear normal pregnancy, labor, and the puerperium will be considered. During the last half-year one-half of the abnormalities of pregnancy, labor and the puerperium, and the obstetrical operations will be discussed. Required: Juniors, entire course; Seniors, last half of year. 2. Clinical Lecture. This hour will be devoted to the study of unusual obstetrical cases Absent on leave, first half-year, 1911-12. as they occur in the obstetrical wards, the demonstration of specimens, quizzes, and the presentation of student reports. of Juniors and Seniors. 1 hour per week, throughout the year. 3. Practical Obstetrics. Required Each student of the Junior Class will devote two weeks as an assistant to the interne in the obstetrical wards, and will attend cases in confinement in the out-patient work of the San Francisco Maternity. GYNECOLOGY. CHARLES A. VON HOFFMAN, M.D., Professor of Gynecology. Instruction in gynecology is given during the third and fourth years. It is the aim of the department to train the students in those aspects of gynecology which relate to the general practice of medicine, while purely operative specialism is given secondary consideration. 1. Clinics in Gynecology. Professor VON HOFFMAN and Dr. MOORE. This course is given upon the material in the wards of the City and County Hospital and the University of California Hospital. The clinic is combined with some bedside instruction. Cases are assigned to students, who are required to take their histories, conduct the physical examination, and make the diagnosis. When the case so assigned is brought into the clinic or the operating room, those students are called who have worked on the patient. In this manner the students are brought into close contact with the cases. In connection with this course instruction in operative gynecology is given upon the cadaver (Winkel's Manikin). Minor operations and those designed for the repair of the genital tract after obstetrical injuries are either demonstrated to the students or performed by them. Fourth year, 2 hours a week, throughout the year. 2. Lectures in Gynecology. A systematic course of lectures. Professor vVON HOFFMAN. Fourth year, 1 hour a week, throughout the year. 3. Demonstrations in Gynecology. Professor LARTIGAU. A systematic course of lectures, combined with practical demonstrations illustrating the normal gross and microscopic anatomy, pathology, and symptomatology. Especial emphasis is laid upon pathological work in this course. Third year, 1 hour a week, throughout the year. 4. Dispensary Clinies. Dr. MOORE. In this course, held at the Out-Patient Dispensary, students are made familiar with ambulatory cases. As it is the purpose of the course to train the students in making physical examinations and in the use of instruments, the instruction is given in sections, and is entirely practical. Fourth year, 18 hours for each section. PEDIATRICS. WILLIAM B. LEWITT, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics. SANFORD BLUM, A.B., M.S., M.D., Instructor in Pediatrics. The courses in pediatrics consist of lectures, recitations, conferences, and practical work in the Out-Patient Dispensary. 1. Lectures and Recitations. Professor LEWITT. Consideration is given to those ailments of children most frequently met with; particular attention is devoted to the infectious diseases of infancy and childhood and to the subject of infant feeding. Fourth year, 1 hour a week, throughout the year. 2. Dispensary Clinics. Dr. BLUM. In the dispensary work the students are brought into direct contact with the cases, and in this manner the diseases are systematically studied. Fourth year, 2 hours a week, throughout the year. DISEASES OF THE SKIN. DOUGLAS W. MONTGOMERY, M.D., Professor of Diseases of the Skin. HARRY EVERETT ALDERSON, M.D., Assistant in Diseases of the Skin. Professors MONTGOMERY and MORROW. 1. (a) The study of the histology and histo-pathology of the skin, ineluding biopsies, preparation and examination of sections, and demonstration of specimens. A study of the bacteriology of the various cutaneous lesions is also included. (b) Demonstration of clinical cases, including lectures, and recitations. Once a year students are taken to the City and County Isolation Hospital, where from fifteen to twenty lepers, and such cases of variola and caricella, as are available, are demonstrated. So far as possible the microscopic and clinical aspects are studied sumultaneously. (c) Practical clinical work. Students are trained in methods of taking histories, of making diagnoses, and prognoses, and of treatment of dermatological patients. They are also trained in the use of radiotherapy as applied to the diseases of the skin. 11 hours a week, throughout the year. 2. Laboratory Diagnosis of Syphilis. Dr. SCHMITT. This includes the theory and technic of the serum diagnosis of syphilis by the Wasserman and Noguchi complement fixation reactions, and the Nome and Noguchi butyric acid reactions, and demonstrations of the methods of finding the treponema pallida by smears, sections, and the dark-field condenser. 1 hour a week for 24 weeks. DISEASES OF THE EYE. GEORGE HERMAN POWERS, A.M., M.D., Emeritus Professor of Ophthalmology. CARL S. G. NAGEL, M.D., Instructor in Ophthalmology. W. SCOTT FRANKLIN, M.D., Instructor in Ophthalmology. EDGAR W. ALEXANDER, B.S., M.D., Assistant in Ophthalmology. Instruction in ophthalmology is given in the wards and operating rooms of the University of California Hospital and the City and County Hospital and at the Out-Patient Dispensary. This 1. Practical Work in the Physiological Laboratory. In the second year students are instructed in the rudiments of physiological opties, including the theory of refraction, ophthalmoscopy, skiascopy, colors, etc., and in the physiology of the eye. course is given in the department of physiology in Berkeley. 2. Ophthalmology. Drs. NAGEL and FRANKLIN. The subjects covered in this course comprise the methods of examining the patient and the external and ophthalmoscopic diseases of the eye; ophthalmic surgery. Special study is made of the eye in its relation to general diseases. Students of the fourth year have the opportunity of continuing clinical work in ophthalmology throughout the term, and perfecting themselves in the laboratory methods of examination of eye specimens. Fourth year, 2 hours a week, throughout the year. 3. Ophthalmoscopy. Dr. ALEXANDER. The third-year students are instructed in the bedside use of the ophthalmoscope, and the ocular conditions of patients in the medical wards are demonstrated. Third year, 1 hour a week, throughout the year. 4. Dispensary Clinies. Drs. NAGEL, FRANKLIN, and ALEXANDER. Students are given facilities for personal examination and treatment of ambulatory cases in the out-patient department. DISEASES OF THE EAR, NOSE, AND THROAT. ALBERT J. HOUSTON, B.L., M.D., Instructor in Diseases of the Ear, Nose, and Throat. BENJAMIN THOMAS, M.D., Assistant in Diseases of the Ear, Nose, and Throat. Instruction in otology, rhinology, and laryngology is given at the City and County Hospital, the University of California Hospital and at the Out-Patient Dispensary. The ambulatory cases are studied at the dispensary, while the operative cases are demonstrated in the clinic at the University of California Hospital and the City and County Hospital. 1. Otology, Rhinology, and Laryngology. Instruction in diseases of the ear, nose, and throat is given in the wards of the City and County Hospital, the University of California Hospital, and the Out-Patient Dispensary. Fourth year, 3 clinies a week, throughout the year. DEPARTMENT OF GENITO-URINARY SURGERY. JOHN C. SPENCER, A.B., M.D., Assistant Professor of Genito-Urinary Surgery. 1. Genito-Urinary Surgery. Professor SPENCER. This course is entirely practical and is given in the University of California Hospital and at the Out-Patient Dispensary on ambulatory cases. 1 hour a week, throughout the year; 1 clinic a week. ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY. SAMUEL J. HUNKIN, M.D., Instructor in Orthopedic Surgery. 1. Orthopedic Surgery. Dr. HUNKIN. This course is entirely practical and is given at the Out-Patient Dispensary on ambulatory cases. The diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the joints, the correction of special deformities, and particularly the subject of skeletal alignment and muscular balance, are considered. Special attention is paid to the making of splints and the application and fitting of braces. Fourth year, 2 hours a week, throughout the year. MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE. Lectures. Professor D'ANCONA. A course of lectures upon the duties and rights of the medical witness, personal identification, malpractice, life insurance, deathbed declarations, signs of death, presumption of death, and the jurisprudence of insanity. Fourth year, 1 hour a week, throughout the year. HYGIENE. ERNEST BRYANT HOAG, B.S., A.M., M.D., Lecturer in Public Hygiene. The principles of personal hygiene and public health. Particular attention to the early history of preventive medicine, and to the contributions to this science of Jenner, Pasteur, Lister, Koch, and others. Special topies with which every well-trained modern physician should be familiar will receive attention. These will include school hygiene and the health supervision of school children, Federal, State and Municipal hygiene. The practical relation of preventive medicine to the every-day practice of medicine will be specially emphasized. Fourth year, 1 hour a week, throughout the year. |