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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

ORGANIZATION AND GOVERNMENT.

The University of California is an integral part of the public educational system of the state. As such it completes the work begun in the public schools. Through aid from the state and the United States, and by private gifts, it furnishes facilities for instruction in literature, science, and engineering, and in the professions of art, law, medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy. In the Colleges of Letters, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Commerce, Agriculture, Mechanics, Mining, Civil Engineering, and Chemistry these privileges are offered without charge for tuition to all residents of California who are qualified for admission. Non-residents of California are charged a tuition fee of ten dollars each half-year. In the Professional Colleges, except that of Law, moderate tuition fees are charged. The instruction in all the colleges is open to all qualified persons, without distinction of sex. The Constitution of the state provides for the perpetuation of the University, with all its depart

ments.

ORGANIZATION.

The organization of the University comprises the following legally constituted colleges and departments:

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3. San Francisco Department of the College of Medicine, third and fourth

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4. College of Dentistry.

5. California College of Pharmacy.

IV. In Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Department of the College of Medicine, third and fourth years. The College of Medicine of the State University therefore carries on its work in three cities, the student doing his first and second year work at Berkeley and choosing the San Francisco or Los Angeles departments in which to complete the work of the third and fourth years.

BERKELEY.

The University of California proper is located at Berkeley, a city of about 43,000 inhabitants, on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay, directly opposite the Golden Gate. It is thirty-five minutes' ride by train and ferry from San Francisco, and a thirty minutes' ride by elecric car from the business center of Oakland. The site of the University comprises about two hundred and seventy acres, rising at first in a gentle and then in a bolder slope from a height of about two hundred feet above the sea level to over nine hundred feet. It thus covers a range of more than seven hundred feet in altitude, while back of it the chain of hills continues to rise a thousand feet higher. It has a superb outlook over the Bay and City of San Francisco, over the neighboring plains and mountains, the ocean, and the Golden Gate.

LOS ANGELES.

For its exceptional 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 increased 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. 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.

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 at 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. 14.

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 clinical 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, and this institution will be in operation early in 1912.

The Receiving and other semi-public hospitals, the Barlow Sanitorium for Consumptives, as well as a number of private institutions, offer other facilties for clinical observation, excelled by but few cities of like size in the entire United States.

ADMISSION AND RESIDENCE.
ADMISSION.

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Applicants for admission to the first year of the medical course and applicants for advanced standing must have completed at least two full years of preliminary training in the undergraduate departments of the University of California or of a university of equal standing. evidence of this preliminary training, they must present a Junior Certificate of this University or its equivalent. The Medical Faculty recom mends that students who anticipate entering the College of Medicine a reading knowledge of French and German, and include among the studies leading to the Junior Certificate courses in physies, chemistry, zoology of the scope and character of the following courses: Physics

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2A-2B; Chemistry 1, 3, 8A, 8B, 110A; Zoology 1, 5, and 106.

THE COMBINED COURSE.

Students in the Colleges of Letters, Social Sciences, or Natural Sciences have received the Junior Certificate, and who in addition to the

who

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.

FEES.

For freshmen and for new students entering with advanced standing in 1911, the tuition of this college is $150.00 per year, payable always in advance. The matriculation fee is $5.00 (payable but once) and the breakage deposit (returnable less charges) is $25.00. A rental of $5.00 a year is charged for the use of a microscope, and $2.00 for an immersion lens. Each student must provide himself with a microscope. A charge of $10.00 is made for dissecting material and a rental of $2.50 is charged for the use of a set of bones, and a deposit of $7.50 as security for their return in good condition.

REQUIREMENTS FOR ADVANCEMENT FROM CLASS TO CLASS.

Students are divided into four classes, according to their proficiency and time spent in studies, viz.: First Year or Freshman, Second Year or Sophomore, Third Year or Junior, Fourth Year or Senior.

The standing of the students in their college work is based on their work in the classroom, laboratories, clinics, and on their attendance, the relative value to be placed on each of these items being left to the individual teachers. A student absent from more than twenty per cent of a course forfeits his right to take an examination in that course, unless the time up to eighty per cent. be subsequently made up, when the Educational Committee may give such student permission to take a supplementary examination in such subject.

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