COLLEGE OF MEDICINE (For Faculty of the College of Medicine see page 31). HISTORY The College of Medicine, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, is located on the corner of Congress 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. 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 first 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. REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION First, a certificate of good moral character from two reputable physicians, and: Second, a diploma of a State normal school, an ac credited 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: Third, a certificate of admission to a literary or scientific college whose standards are equal to those of the University of Illinois: Fourth, a certificate of successful examination conducted by a State Board of examiners, whose standards are at least equal to those of an accredited high school of the University of Illinois, or Fifth, a certificate signed by an acceptable principal of an accredited high school or by the examiner of the faculty of a recognized literary or scientific college or university, or by the State or City Superintendent of Public Instruction, or a Superintendent of Public Schools, of having successfully passed an examination in all the branches embraced in the curriculum of a four years' course of an accredited high school. REGISTRATION Students are required to register in the office of the Secretary immediately upon the opening of the term for the work in that term, and credit will be allowed only in the branches in which the students are registered. Students will be registered in the order in which their fees are paid. ARRANGEMENT OF THE COURSE The collegiate year is divided into two terms, called respectively the winter term and the summer term. The winter term consists of a session of thirty-six weeks, beginning September 25th, 1906, and ending June 4th, 1907, at which time the annual graduating exercises will be held. Attendance upon the full winter term is required in order to secure credit for a year's work, and attendance upon four winter terms is required for graduation. The summer term consists of a session of twelve weeks, beginning June 6th, 1907. The schedule for the summer term may be had on application. This course is open to both graduates and undergraduates. It affords opportunities to practitioners to do work along special lines. Undergraduates who attend it will receive credit for the same, either toward making up any study in which they are deficient; or as a credit toward the work of the next session, except in the studies of the senior year which will be final only for those who have taken a previous course of instruction in those studies. 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, materia medica, human anatomy and physiology. During the sophomore year the study of physiology, chemistry and human anatomy is continued, and in addition the student takes up pathology and bacteriology. With the junior year the study of the practical branches of medicine is begun. The student also begins clinical and bed-side work, and receives instruction in medical and surgical specialties. During the junior and senior years 1,000 hours of work are required in each year. Of this 1,000 hours, approximately 500 are "specified," and the balance "elective." This plan permits a student to specialize along the lines best suited to his purpose. A certain amount of clinical work is required, but the student is permitted to elect the work offered by all clinical teachers and permitted to attend all lectures and clinics. THE SIX-YEAR MEDICAL COURSE In addition to the usual four years' medical course, the University offers a six years' continuous course which leads to the degree of bachelor of arts upon the completion of four years' work, and to the degree of doctor of medicine at the end of the entire course. It includes every thing contained in the four years' medical course and in addition enables the student to go more deeply than would otherwise be possible into the fundamental sciences upon which medical studies are based. Students wishing so to combine their work in general science with their professional studies in medicine as to receive both degrees may accomplish this purpose by pursuing at the University in Urbana (the following) three years of work, including a year of medical studies, and then continuing their medical work at the Medical Department in Chicago. The first three years must include all of the subjects in the general prescribed list, page 97 (including the second alternative in chemistry), and the following list of studies, especially prescribed for this course: Art and Design, 1, 3 hours. Chemistry, 9c; 2 hours. Latin, 1; 4 hours. Physics, 2a; 8 hours. Physiology 1, or 1 and 2. 1. One year's credit in Latin required, if Latin has not been offered for entrance. The prescribed studies should be taken according to the following prospectus : PROSPECTUS OF PRESCRIBED COURSES I. Art and Design; Elementary Chemistry (Chemistry 1); Rhetoric and Themes (Rhet. 1); Military 2; Physical Training for Men 1, 3; for Women, 7, 9; Trigonometry (Math. 4); Zoölogy 10. 2. Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry (Chem. 2); Qualitative Analysis (Chem. 3a); Rhetoric and Themes (Rhet. 1); Military I, 2; Physical Training; for Men 1, 3; for Women 7; Zoölogy 2. Second Year I. German 1 or 4, or Latin; Zoology 3; Quantitative analysis (Chem. 5a); Military 2; Physics 2a. 2. German 3 or 5 or 6 or Latin; Zoölogy 3; Organic Chemistry (Chem. 9, 9c); Military 2; Physics 2a. Third Year I. German 4; Psychology 1, 6; Physiology 1. 2. German 5 or 6; Physiology 1; Bacteriology (Bot. 5); Electives. All electives. Fourth Year Students having completed the above three years of prescribed work at the University, together with electives sufficient to amount to 97 hours' credit, will be given the degree of bachelor of arts at the commencement next following the completion at the medical college of the work in human anatomy, physiology of the special senses and of the nervous system, therapeutics, general pathology, pathological anatomy, and surgical pathology (virtually one year's work). The following subjects included in the above all count toward the medical degree: Chemistry (general, organic, qualitative and quantitative analysis, and Toxicology), Biology, (Zoölogy), Physiology, Normal Histology, Embryology, and Bacteriology. Upon the satisfactory completion of the remaining three years of the medical course, the University will confer the degree of doctor of medicine. ADVANCED STANDING Students who present evidence of having attended one or more years at other medical institutions in good standing with the Illinois State Board of Health, and having complied with the entrance requirements of this College, may be admitted to advanced standing, and receive credit for time and also for the work which they have completed in the preceding years of the curriculum, if such work be |