Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1894-10-19
THE DOCTORS PROFESSION,
EXPENSES OF MEDICAL EDJCA-
TON IN NEW YORK
They Range From 5000 To $500
Colleges Will Make a Mana Doc
tor In Three or Four Years.

the study of medicine are not H'co'H
panied bv extraordinary expense. 10
appreciate how reasonable the expense
of studying medicine IN New York Is
one must consider that here the stu
dent has the advantage of enormous
hospitals in direct connection with
the leading colleges, where an endless
supply of cases Is drawn upon for
clinics conducted by many of the lcat-
ing physicians and surgeons of the
country. And in the most expensive
college in the city, where the term of
study is four years, the student can
acquire his medical diploma at total
cost of $500, including board and
lodging during term time, while di-
ploma comforting the sane degree can
be had after three years at an expense
slightly over 5000.
Women students can be graduated
still more cheaplv. 1t is very common
for young women students to club to-
gether and hire fiat where they live
in comfort and are able by doing their
own cooking to keep their expenses
far below boarding house rates. Women
can live IN this manner ut 81 week
each. This system OF living IN clubs
and occupying flats is almost entirely
confined to women students. however.
One thing the medical student in
New York must not look Tor TO any
great extent is the opportunity to earn
money in the line of his work while
studying, either III his college or else
where. Ihere are lew chances "ith
sort. Now and then student Will
get chance to earn lew aoIi'ra
helping IN drug store, but II he Is
not graduate IN pharmacy, AS few
are, TINS Will not amount 10 hurh'
here ana there wealthy physician IN
practice hlreS student 10 hrIp MN
about MS practice, put there are lew
OF them.
On this point Professor Charles
Inslie Pardee, VI. d., dean of the
medical department Of the University
of the City of New York, says
"There is no provision here for stu
dent to reduce his expenses by earn
ing anything and do not advise any
young man to come here who Is
obliged to rely on earning money dur.
ing his attendance in order to pay his
way. All the work about the college
is done by experts. Some OF our pro-
fessors gave lectures here for some
time before they received any com
pensation. 4 student here needs his
entire time for his stuGics. We are
making the requirements of the course
more exactIng wear by wear, and cal
culating very closely how much time
student can devote to his work.
Nearly every hour III the day is uc-
counted for, and student who is I'M
able to devote his entire time to his
studies is IN danger of being unable
to pass his examinations. The stu
dents have five months in the wear to
themselves, and it is then that they
should earn what money they require
to carry them through the course.
Twenty years ago young man en-
tered Bellevue College. He lived Mt "A
cost OF 81 aweek all through his course.
- 10y $500
llved on boiled man, with an occHslohhI
dietary diversion III the way OF po-
tato. lie would BUY nall ham, BON
IL IN Kettle he Drought with MN
rom MS nome Keep IL sweet by h"hE,
! ing IL OUT OF MS WINDOW III winter ana
III soineooay refrigerator III warm
weather ana on thiS "lonc lie IlIed.
once III whllt ne would huy lohl
OF Dreau When MS appetite craHed
variety. IN summer ne hnu Iob IN
the country, ana earned more money
than ne spent III the winter, SO that he
made money taking the year Ms n
whole. His homo made diet seemed
to agree with MN, Tor he lett the IN
sututlon as stout as he entered IT, and
that meant weight OF over two hun
dred pounds. Now he mas an lnd"'
pendent fortune, has Tor years en-
Ioyed practice paying several thou
sand dollars year, and has been Mayor
of his home, city OF interior New
York.
At Bellevue Hospital Medical Col
lege the course is three years, each
college year consisting Of one term of
twenty-six weeks, with intermisslons
at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Stu
dents who have not also studied with
a practicing physician for one wear
have special course provided for
them-an extra spring term of twelve
weeks. They are required to take the
spring term, but many other students
take it from choice, on account of the
excellent advantages for uuiZ2ing it
affords. The fees at Bellevue are ::
First wear, matriculation, So; dissect.
inc +;cko, an. foo for tho oo,,rs,