The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-02-03

possible
the short from New York and Boston,
the medical school staff
Burlington difficult expensive thing Dr. Nathaniel
Bowdh Potter Assistant Professor Clinical Medicine IN the College
and Surgeons New York. who spent two days
of the school, while speaking the highest terms Of
spirit the faculty points this weakness in the
phrase teaching body closely inbred the
teaching Medical School when student
there in the 9Os words
expense involved strong tendency such school
organize the teaching staff the local members of the medical
profession tendency which even with the best intentions can be
only by the expenditure of large Of
the cost of maintaining modern medical school under such
conditions consider the cost at which
teaching could be conducted The expenditures the
the school for the last $4,000 of which
$4,000 supplied from buttons The amount from tut
lions win shrink the next four practically napprebe
the school rely almost wholly for its maintenance either
upon of which has state Further
not sufficient maintain the school right
Somewhere between $4,000 and $4,000 will be needed to conduct
Burlington school university basis and capable of giving
medical adequate the penday teaching
This must from the state it is to be had at ALL and
this that Vermont student graduated would probably cost
the state from to thousand dollars.
Is the state justified maintaining developing medical school
under such conditions and in view of the demands made in
other directions? Vermont surrounded by medical schools
which Vermont students who intend study medicine Just
north the Montreal the the south
New Yor great medical cen and with spenddy developed
modern medical schools No matter what the state of Vermont does
the development of school Burlington the bulk
students who medicine will
places they
possibly be Burlington when makes all allowances
the intimate of teacher and student the small numbers
and for the personal attention The state of New HAMPSHIRE and Dart
mouth College have recently dealt with this question what would
to be udicous Dartmouth College like the University
Vermont has conducted school of medicine that
subsidized by the of New Hampshire Within
has been decided give the last half of this medical
and to New Hampshire students free their nicaled
uon where be had best When considers pressing
Vermont for the development elementary education
placing public school system administration
the expenditure of the large of develop me
cal school under unfavorabe conditions is hard to justify
other feature the medical situation be referred
Vermont has quite far recent the effort deal with
social problems and plans considered for the
the sick the state at to be designated has been
urged that while medical school might not be justified
ground of the small number of doctors who would
there might nevertheless be justified connection with
p and dpensay treating the sick the state and that
these patients would the other hand furnish the clinical material
for student
This argument however, analysis
the conduct of free clinic the of all the
is wise thing not in itself question for consideration but
such state clinic hospital established perfectly
that could be conducted which would
in comparison with the cost of conducting medical school addition
Furthermore is also evident that the clinical material which would
be obtained in this would have comparatively little significance
medical teaching the patients would all
the medical