REGISTRATION Applications for admission to the First Year must be addressed to the Recorder of the Faculties, University of California, Berkeley, and for advanced standing to the Dean's Office at the Medical School, San Francisco. They must be received not later than March 5. Students will not be admitted to medical courses until they have registered at the Student's Office of the Medical School, Parnassus and Third avenues, San Francisco. FEES Tuition in the Medical School for residents of California is $200 per year; for non-residents it is $500. Aliens who have not made valid declaration of intention to become citizens of the United States, are classified as non-residents of California. Tuition fees are payable in two equal installments, August and January respectively. A key and breakage deposit of $25 in the first and second years and of $10 in the third and fourth years is required for the use of lockers and to cover the cost of material used in laboratories and possible damage to college buildings and equipment. In the first year there is an additional fee of $15 for dissecting material, $5 for each part. During the first year and a half an incidental fee of $25 per half-year is required; for the last two and a half years this fee is $12.50 per halfyear. Students not registering on the dates announced will be charged $2 additional. Students not appearing for examinations on specified dates will be required to pay a fee of $5 for a special examination. Students registered in the Medical School and taking less than the required amount of work in any given half-year are required to pay a proportionate fee for tuition. Such students must first obtain the permission of the Medical Faculty. Students will not be permitted to register until they have paid their fees for the ensuing half-year. A student whose fees remain unpaid at the time fixed for their payment must cease making use of all privileges as a student until his financial relations with the University have been arranged satisfactorily with the Dean of the Medical School. Failure to comply with this rule may result in the student's dismissal. Rooms and table board may be obtained in Berkeley at the rate of $35 to $50 per month and near the Medical School in San Francisco at from $35 to $45 per month. MICROSCOPES AND BLOOD-COUNTING APPARATUS Students are required to purchase their own microscopes. A limited number of microscopes are available for rental from the school at a cost of seven dollars per annum. Students using microscopes which belong to the school are liable for damage done the instruments in their possession. The character of the practical work requires that each student own a blood-counting apparatus and an ophthalmoscope. These should be purchased at the beginning of the second half of the second-year. Students are also required to supply themselves with the necessary slides and coverslips. MEDICAL SUPERVISION OVER STUDENTS Students of the first and second-year classes while in residence on the campus are entitled to the advantages offered by the University of California Students' Infirmary in Berkeley. The Infirmary Service of the University Hospital provides for the needs of students under instruction in San Francisco. For this purpose a number of beds have been endowed. Medical students, in common with all other students of the University of California, are required to pass a physical examination before entering the University. Students under instruction in San Francisco are examined annually. LIBRARIES Instruction in the medical sciences and the various branches of clinical medicine is incomplete without constant reference to current and authoritative monographic and periodical literature. In research work the need of a complete reference library is obvious. Each of the departments in Berkeley-Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, Bacteriology-contains a separate departmental library which, although a unit of the general University Library, is thus segregated as part of the working equipment of each department. Through the generosity of the late Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst and of Mrs. William H. Crocker, these departmental libraries are unusually complete; they also participate in the annual distribution of University Library funds. The Medical Library in San Francisco comprises a file of approximately 15,455 volumes of bound journals and books, 18,500 university dissertations, 13,450 reprints, with a subscription list of nearly 245 of the best English, French, and German periodicals. A notable collection of ophthalmological journals is a valued feature of the library. Access to the magnificent medical library of the Surgeon General's Office in Washington, D. C., and to several excellent libraries in the city affords further opportunity for study and research. The Library occupies one floor in the south wing of the Medical School Building which provides quarters that are sunny, airy and commodious. Two trained librarians comprise the staff. LABORATORIES AND CLINICAL OPPORTUNITIES Medical instruction of the first year and a half is carried on in the separate departmental buildings of Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, and Bacteriology situated on the University Campus in Berkeley. The present laboratory buildings are regarded as temporary, but are spacious and easily increased in size to meet growing demands; they are fully equipped not only for teaching but for research. A students' laboratory is maintained in one of the existing buildings in San Francisco. This is used for instruction in clinical pathology, taught in the second half of the second year and also used by the students of the third and fourth years, to perform the necessary laboratory work on cases assigned to them. The various clinical departments have laboratories situated in the buildings in San Francisco. THE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL The University Hospital is essentially a teaching hospital under the control of the Board of Regents of the University of California. The medical affairs of the hospital are so managed as to secure the most thorough utilization of the patients for the purpose of instruction and research. Several endowment funds and the support of the State and the University make free beds available for the study of interesting and unusual cases. The Associated Charities of San Francisco send to the hospital a number of deserving patients. Clinical material also is drawn from distant points. It is aimed to make this hospital, a consulting place, to a great extent, for physicians of the state, a place where patients unable to pay for costly examinations or expert opinion may be sent for further investigation, returning to their own physicians with a report of the findings. The hospital building was erected and equipped by friends of the University at a cost of about $750,000. It is located on Parnassus avenue, between Third and Fourth avenues, directly adjoining the Medical School. The site overlooks Golden Gate Park, the Presidio of San Francisco, San Francisco Bay, and the Pacific Ocean. The hospital has a capacity of 283 beds. The main building is seven stories in height and extends along the entire Parnassus avenue frontage. |