New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-19
New Course Will Compel
Student to Devote First 2
Years TO. Medicine.
TRUSTEES INDORSE
PLAN PROPOSED
Aim 10 Place Both Professions
on Equal Plane-Expect to
Open in September.

Columbia University plans TO add
dental school 20 its proposed $4,000
OOo medical centre, according to an an
nouncement made yesterday by Mich
olas Murray Butler. The trustees have
given their unanimous support 20 the
undertaking, and a group OF well
known dentists and physicians are
working in cooperation with the uni
versity to enable the opening of the
dental school next September.
The school will be established on
broad university lines in cooperation
with the College of Physicians and sur
geons. the university medical scnool;
il will be a novelty among dental
schools of the country N its REQUIRE
rert OF admission and In the comblna-
tion of medical training with the
dental courses. The proposal was rec
ommended 70 the trustees for favorable
action by the faculty of the College or
Physicians and Surgeons and the uni
versity council.
Funds Must be Subscribed.
Funds 10 establish the school must
be subscribed, as the unlversitys re-
sources will not permit of its financing
this undertaking. A keen interest IN
the school is being taken, however, o.
the dental and medical profession ana
The lavmen. and assurance IS felt that
sufficient funds will be received oy
September 70 warrant the opening OF
the courses with the new academic
term. The Academy of Medicine, the
Medical Society of the County OF Ne"
York and the First District Dental So
ciety have already approved OF inc
undertaking.
According to the plans, the new
school will be affiliated directly win
the College of Physicians and Sur
geons, and until sufficient funds are
received to erect a special building. the
courses will be given at the medlcsl
school. The same rigorous standards
and admission requirements Tor the
medical school of two years college
training will be demanded Tor admls-
sion 10 dentistry courses, making the
school the only one Of its kind in the
country. None Of the dental schools
in this country have the entrance re-
quirements which will be demanded at
the proposed Columbia School OF Den
tistry.
An llLcES5biuS ltdIhEt 10 49,
dental student will be compelled to
devote his first two years OF study 10
the same courses given to medical stu
dents. The important relation between
the proper care of the teeth and the
general health is awakening the lead
ing dentists ard physicians TO the fact
that the future dentist must have a
thorough grounding in medicine. II is
the aim to place the dental profession
on a plane equal TO that OF the medi-
cal profession and have both worb
hand in hand. Columbia plans TO &C
complish this in the proposed School
of Dentistry. closely allied with the
medical college.
Course in Surgery and Medicine.
The courses for the first two years
will include anatomy, chemistry, path
ology and bacteriology, as well as gem
eral study in surgery and medicine.
After the first two years medical spe-
cialties will be omitted and training
in mechanical and scientific features
Of dental surgery will be substituted.
The courses for the dental school will
cover four years, the last two being