The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1914-02-05

the Importation courses from New York and Boston,
it still that the maintenance of good medical school stan
in Burlington difficult and expensive thing Dr. Nathaniel
Bowditch Potter Professor of Clinical Medicine in the College
of Physicians and Surgeons who two days in
examination of the school, while speaking the highest terms OF
the spirit and morale faculty points this weakness in the
phrase teaching body almost closely inbred as was the
teaching Medical School when student
the 9o In other words on account OF the isolation ana
the expense involved there is strong tendency such school to
organize teaching staff of the local members of the medical
profession tendency which, with the best Intentions can be
overcome the expenditure of large sum OF money
AS to maintaining modern medical school under such
conditions can only minimum cost at which good
teaching could be conducted The expenditures in the MAIN
tenance school for the last $4,000 of which sum
$4,000 supplied from buttons The amount from tut
will shrink in the next four practically napprecabe
sum- rely almost wholly for its maintenance either
upon endowment which state support Further
more sufficient to maintain the school right plane
Somewhere $4,000 $4,000 will be needed to conduct in
Burlington upon university basis and capable of giving
education adequate to the demands of pesentday teaching
This money must from the state it is to be had ALL and
that every Vermont student graduated would probably cost
the from five to ten thousand dollars.
Is the state justified in maintaining developing medical school
of the demands made it in
decons Vermont surrounded by good medical schools to
students who intend study medicine Just
Montreal to the east Boston, to the south
great medical cnters and with penddy developed
medical schools No matter what the state of Vermont does
the development school at Burlington the bulk of Vermont
students who want to study medicine VIII and ought 10 go 10 oe
places they there obtain medical education such cannot
possibly given Burlington when makes all allowances
for the intimate teacher and student for the small numbers
and personal attention The state of New Hampshire and Dart
recently dealt with this question what would
seem Dartmouth College, like the University
conducted school of medicine that
has the state of New Hampshire Within the
present decided the last half of this medical
seek their ncaled
uaton When considers the pressing need
development of elementary and secondary education
and placing public school system under fruitful administration
the expenditure the large of to develop med
school under unfavorabe conditions hard to justify
other of the medical situation needs to be referred to-
the effort to deal with
problems have been considered for the treatment of
the place be designated 1t has been
urged that while medical school might not be justified upon the
ground doctors who would be educated
might nevertheless be justified connection with state hos
pa dpensay for treating the sick of the state and that
patients would the other hand furnish the clinical material
for student
This argument however bear close analysis Whether
of free clinic for the of all the towns Of Vermont
thing is in itself question for consideration but
clinic and hospital is to be established it perfectly clear
that conducted cost which would be bagatee
with the cost conducting medical school addition
Furthermore also evident that the clinical material which would
this would have comparatively little significance
teaching the patients would be nearly all chronic
most needs The medical school
in fact stand its feet and must justify itself by the