Four-year Course Research Articles

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REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION TO MEDICAL SCHOOLS.

During the last decade no question has excited more discussion among medical teachers than what should be the requirements for admission to college. These requirements have been steadily advanced, but as yet there is no settled conviction as to how far they shall be advanced. In other words, it has not been determined what are the ideal entrance requirements. In this country the existing requirements vary from what must be studied to complete the eighth grade of the grammar school to what is embraced in the complete curriculum of a college of arts or sciences. At least, the mean between these extremes is reached by all of the best schools of the country. It will not be long before a satisfactory completion of the subjects of a four-year high school course will be demanded for admission to all medical colleges, because the laws of many states under which physicians are

MEDICAL EDUCATION AND THE STATE.

As one of the significant indications of our country's intellectual growth might be cited the very general active interest which is being taken in the advancement of technical and professional education. Although not with equal pace with other branches of learning, great progress has been made likewise in the methods of teaching medicine. Twenty-five years ago the best medical colleges of which we could boast were satisfied to have the student attend but two courses of lectures, each of these less than four months' duration, with none or but very slight provision either for clinical or laboratory studies. The lectures were almost wholly didactic and confined to a few practical branches; the fundamentals, as they are called, and the allied scientific branches were either neglected or at least but very superficially treated. To-day all first-class medical colleges have a four-year course of study. Each student is obliged to devote a