Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-09-02
OUR UNIVERSITY RECOGNIZED.


OUR UNIVERSITY RECOGNIZED.
Two national authorities In medical
education have recently put Salt Lake
CITY and the Medical department OF the
University Of Utah ia their honor list
Their declaration Is that Salt Lake city
Is q proper place for great medical
school and that the Medical department
OF the University IL the nucleus ana
right beginning OF that school
The authorities are Doctor Abraham
Flexncr. OF the Carnegie Foundation
fol the Advancement of Teaching. who
has personally Inspected the medical
schools Of the United states;
and the Council on Mcdscdi
schools ~ the American Medical Asso-
citation. which has conducted an inves-
ugaton lasting for six years. OF all the
medical schools ia the country Doctor
Flexner's conclusions have appeared
I'm the Review of Reviews and the md
ings Of the Council OF the American
Medical Association have appeared In
the Journal of m, American Medical
Association In its number for August
20. 1910
According to these authorities there
are too many medical colleges In Amer
lea. Their figures show that the United
states has almost ms many medical i'm
stltutlons as all the rest of the world
put together In their classification of
these colleges they practically agree.
IN the first place they hold that luca-
ton IL an important matter in founding
"a medical college Salt Lake city they
declare to be thoroughly satisfactory in
this respect.
In the second place they Inst the coli
lcges existing in America In classes
from the point Of view Of equipment
and teaching facilities Ot the total
number OF 1873 such Institutions in
America. the Council for the Ameri-
can Medical Association finds but II
mot much more than so per cent? which
are acceptable. In this list Of II is the
University
In a third honor list Salt Lake city
and the Medical Department also hold
IA place. This Is the list Of colleges
which require as much az two years OF
collegiate work for entrance Other
colleges in the list are such institutions
as Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Pennsyl-
vania. College of Physicians and Sur
geons at Columbia
In still another honor list Utah oc-
cuples prominent place. This list
refutes the contention OF many infer
Tor colleges that their expense Is JUS
tlHcd because they make II possible for
the poor boy to secure a medical educa-
ton. The list shows that a large num-
Der OF the inferior colleges require
high tuition fee and that many Of the
acceptable colleges require fee as low
as $500. The fee at the State Uni
vorslty for work in medicine Is only
1000 Tor residents of the State and
$500 for non-resldcnts
The Journal OF the American Medical
Associations takes pains TO congratulate
the medical profession of the country
on the publication Of these two re-
ports. II says editorially:
Tho special feature OF the past year
In medical education have been the
IuUlNdAAOIl OF "a fltF-llltl llSt OF Iueul-
cal colleges by the Council on Medical
Education after a six years investiga-
ton, and the publication Of the report
on medical education By he Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching. The report OF the Carnegie
Foundation. which is moro severe than
that OF the Council. bears out the claim
Of the latter that It's markings were
very lenient The publication OF these
two reports IL sure to result In good
to medical education Prospective med
ical students now have the information
that VIII enable them TO select the bet
ter colleges. and, therefore. colleges
which adhere 20 reasonably high stand
ards. and are fairly well equipped win
be benefited These reports show how
each college ranks as compared with
other colleges. the needed improve
ments have been pointed out and the
way has been opened for further de-
velopment"
The Medical Department of the state
University was established four years
ago It offers at present only two years
OF work IN medicine Students who
complete these two wears go for tho
rest Of their medical training to a pro-
fessional school elsewhere. The first
class to complete the work Of the de-
partme7t, that OF two years ago. have
just returned this summer from eastern
medical schools in which they have
successfully studied for two years from
which they have received their doctors
degrees. The other years OF medical
course. we understand. Will be organ
lied as soon as conditions warrant.