Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1907-04-15
Madison, April 10.

LAdJ LN6uIy -OLS STATE uulN0ISItlSS,
including all state universities of the
first rank, give full four years or the
medical course, and that the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin is the only state
university Of Importance that does
not provide adequately for students
who desire to study medicine, was
brought out before the joint meeting
of the legislative committees on edu-
cation yesterday afternoon. The com
mittees had under consideration bill
20 S, which provides $4,000 per an
mum for the establishment of a col
Iege of medicine at the university,
of the medical course. 1t was shown
that the medical authorities of the
state, including the officers of the
state medical society, the state board
of health, and the state board of med
icaI examiners, together with a large
proportion of the leading physicians
of the state, favor the plan. PromI-
nent medical authorities of the cOun-
try are agreed that the first two
years Of the medical course can be
better done at a university than IN
a college of medicine independent or
a university. That university which
does not offer clinical instruction
can nevertheless do the pre-clinicaI
owrk to the best advantage, was en-
pnasized by letters in support of the
proposed plan from the president or
the American medical association,
the president of the association or
American medical colleges, and the
chairman of the council on medicaI
education of the American medal as
ISOLATION
Plan Adopted Elsewhere.
The recent trend in medical educa-
ton, it was shown, is along the line
proposed At the University of Cali
fOrnia, where until a year ago all the
medical work was done in San Fran
cisco, the first two years of the med
icaI course have been recently trans
ferred to Berkeley, where the UNI
vrsity is located. When Rush med
ical college was united with the unI-
versity OF OnicagO a few years ago,
the nrst two years Of the medical
course were transferred from Rush
TO the university of Chicago. This
action, together with the unanimous
endorsement of the plan for giving
the first two years of medical work
in the university, by scores of the
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country, were believed to be strong
reasons for a two years medicai
course at the University of Wiscon-
sin.
Students Suffer Now.
Unless the university Incorporates
into a medical college its present pre-
medical work, which covers over a
year of the required medical course.
it will be impossible, it was pointed
out, for graduates of the pre-medical
course to receive any credit for
their university training. Because OF
recent rulings in surrounding states
it is necessary for students who have
taken the university pre-medicaI
course to spend four years in a med
ical college before they can get the
diploma of medicine. ii the plan
proposed be adopted, the medical
boasAa4(yill give credit for two years
wol2sat the university, and the other
two years work can be done at any
standard medical college. Thus the
combined academic and medical
course can be completed in a shorter
time and with less expense to the
student.
For Health Officers.
Another advantage of the plan is
that when the first two years of the
medical course are established, it will
be possible to give a complete course
in hygiene for health officers. Many
OF the health officers are not physi-
clans, and have not been able to Sc
cure adequate training If a system
attic course for health officers rs
given, they can obtain proper train
ing. and thus increase greatly then
efficiency. This greater efficiency of
well trained health officers. it was
pointed out, will result in inestimable
benefit to the state by improving the
general sanitary and hygenic condi-
lions in the city and country, and by
controlling and greatly reducing the
amount of infectious and contagious
disease.
The proposed plan, it was also
pointed out, providing as it does for
a department of pathology, will make
possible the study of pathological con-
ditions in both plants and animals
With the facilities offered by the col
lege of agriculture it will be possible
to take up the study of animal dis
eases as well as those of man. and
TO investigate the relation of one to
the others. as in tuberculosis, anth-
rax. CHAMBERS, hydrophobia, ETC. II
is also desired to take up the study |
of plant diseases. r. this can