Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1905-03-09

the abundance of physicians Of the
highest standing, is added the number
of fully-eQuipped hospitals, built by
the philanthropy of one of the wealth.
lest cities in the world and supplied
with all the appliances and facilities
the treatment of patients. Sixty eight
of these institutions exist in greater
estimated b. even broader standards
than the amount of suffering actually
relieved by them To the young
physician, with the ink on his coveted
parchment hardly dry, modern
hospital is an invaluable school Of
experience, and an appointment to the
staff of the best ones comes as the
reward of years of the hardest kind
of work in the schools.
Although medicine is being taught
more and more through clinical lee.
lures and in hospitals instead of in
leCture-rooms there is much which the
beginner can acquire almost as we'll
in one place as another. The Ameri
Sdu lSHuubHNN III tQuCdllDl Is uu
questionably toward multil lying the
number of institutions instead of
strengthening those already in eN.
istelce. This tendency has been car.
ried to an extreme in medicine and
doctors are turned out each year from
school without number throughout
the country when they could better
be taken care of by a few thoroughly
equipped, centralized institutions. In
New York, for instance. the work
done by five undergraduate medical
colleges could, many authorities say
be accomplished more satisfactorily as
we'll as more economically by two.
This Capitalization of effort is one
secret of the fame of Vienna, where
what is probably the largest hospital
in the world provides an unequalled
training school for young doctors
This impulse toward the multiplied
tion OF schools is felt more in under
graduate work than in advance study
Thus it is estimated that in 1904
there were in Chicago 2.912 medical
students, in New York 2,S27 and in
Philadelphia 1859. From these hgures
1t seems that the three cities offer
practically the same facilities. for one
would naturally suppose that the
most students go to the place where
they can obtain the best training.
Another set of figures, however, tells
another story. The number of post,
graduate students in Chicago in 1901
in Philadelphia only Az. In many
ways the postgraduate statistics, re
presenting as they do a class of men
looking for something more difficult
to- find than a fair undergraduate
medical school. are the most signi-
ficant.
Postgraduate instruction in medi-
cine is of comparatively recent de
velopment; in fact it may be said to
have come into being with the opening
of the New York POSTGRADUATE Medi.
cal School and Hospital in November.
1882. The usefulness of the departure
was Immediately apparent and several
schools modelled after the New York
institution are now in existence in the
country. Postgraduate medical in,
strTction Is conducted along lines OF
its own, differing absolutely from the
methods Of advanced work in other
sciences and also from the methods
until very recently in vogue in Europe.
In Vienna or Berlin the student BE-
comes a disciple of some noted master
and pays directly TOR the privilege OF
following him through the hospitals.
In such an institution as the New York
POSTGRADUATE School the physicians
give their services for NOTTINGHAM act
which some people who think more Of
a physicians work in life than Of the
prosaic fact that he needs money like
the rest Of us. regard as quite natural
and the fees Of the students are used
to maintain the hospital, the indis-
pensable supplement Of the school.
But perhaps the most striking
thing in connection with such insti-
tutions Is the fact that they are at
| tended not by young men VINO nave
just received their degree and are
anxious to push their studies a little
further before beginning practice. as
is the case with embryo school teach.
ers, professors and others who sup
port the postgraduate departments Of
our universities. but by physicians
who have been out in the world for
ten or fifteen years and many Of
whom have built up excellent practi-
ces. OF the physicians attending
post graduate courses in the New York
POSTGRADUATE Medical School the
great majority are men who have felt
the need Of being in touch with the
most recent advances in medicines. A
busy doctor has little time TO devote
to study No man can work all day
and study all night and as the years
90 by the ply stefan finds himself not
infrequently behind the procession. 1t
is largely in that II enables sucfi men
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