The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1914-02-05
55 entered in 1909
AZ entered in 1910
40 entered in 1911
IL entered in 1912

The admissions medical school plainly decreasing
the higher entrance requirements went into effect The reasons
for gradual medical education throughout the whole
country the growing appreciation of the need for good clinical a
ties study medicine Medical students to-day go in steadily
decreasing the clinical facilities
will be noted that under the entrance requirements only
twelve admitted 1872 emitting who admitted
and dropped OF these twelve only three from
the state Vermont admitted from other medical schools
without college training while repeater turned back from
In other words only by liberal construction
requirements the entering class as large twelve
the full entrance requirement two of col
ge work into effect the school must accept an entering class
certainly not larger than ten and that scarcely hope to graduate
year than four five DOCTORS the majority of whom will
probably outside of Vermont.
studied the medical school detail have been
tuy struck with the high order of devotion exhibited by the dean
and by professors Immediately associated with him. They have
put their work great intelligence sincere devotion to the student
high determination to give to those who come to Vermont to
study medicine the best education they furnish The question of
the development of medical school at the University of Vermont u.s.
be settled entirely apart from the devotion those
Immediately with it. Three questions ought fairly to be
answered determining the retention and development
medical school, ~ Can modern medical school be developed
Burlington? O How much would such school cost conducted
upon plane medical teaching? s the state justified in
spending money necessary to maintain such school?
To questions the situation Vermont has been studied
by familiar with medical teaching and with the of
clinical material with the American
Medical Educationa others with
out any such connection
The testimony of all that question of clinical
material Burlington difficult In order
student learn medicine he ought to be brought
into with amount of clinical material the
ordinary the ordinary illnesses that and women have These
he should great They form really his laboratory nsruc
ton those who have carefully examined the situation
at Burlington clinical material exists has been made the
Patients who the clinics used and again
limit of their ability to submit to such studies Physicians in
the region asked patients and frequently they do Every
made to bring together such clinical material could
the most optimistic view, is clear that with
greatest effort and the most pansang application the supply
material city of the size Of Burlington and the
villages it. This scarcity of clinical material felt
particularly Diseases and
the practice for medical students at Burlington to take during
when they could afford it, in some city, where
the with obstetra and with contagious
diseases present Looking the situation from the
pathetic point of and full credit to the and devotion
of the standpoint of clinical material
the medical school Burlington will always be difficult
matter
serious difficulty in conducting medical school in small
city Of population lies the problem of
obtaining teachers clinical and surgical branches Under such
the school almost to draw its teachers from the
group practitioners and although this situation has been
Eighteen Of 1913 eight Of them from
college had
conditioned entered another medical school
first "a Of "a nsttu-
n second tA class Of ~