New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-09
Dean Lambert Outlines
Needs for Extending
Medical Education.
DEFICIT OF $500
FOR EVERY STUDENT
Teaching Of Public Health ana
Hygiene Checked by Lack OF
Endowment.

Pressing needs Of the Columbia UNI
versity College of Physicians and sur
eeons, and plans for general extension
Of the work Of the school. are outlined
In the annual report of Dean Samuei W
Lambert. given out yesterday. Refer
cnce - made to the possibility OF Sc
curing an option for new site Tor 'h'
school nj lG5th Street and BROADWAY
Tho chance for securing this property
eNpired last fall. however. when IL was
found impossible to raise the neeeS-
sary $1,000 600 TO take up me option.
Dean Lambert says:
THE plans for the rebuilding Of the
school and its allied institutions
should prcsuppose the furnishing %
rcw Laboratories for all the scientific
departments m the school. The pre-
ON, buildings have been outgrown by
every department. The plans should
call for Il general hospital to be built
under the management Of the Presby-
terian Hospital which shall contain
adequate service for general medicine
and general specially.
The school should develop new
Vanderbilt Clinic. with increased laciii-
ties in the outdoor service for each OF
the groups Of patients which are now
treated in that dlspensary. This ne"
Vanderbilt Cline should take the place
Of and become the dispensary service
connected with the ward services OF
the new Presbyterian Hospital.
"The plans should supply also an OPP
no,-unitv for the control and de'el-
onmcn, of the social life OF all the stu
den.s in the school Students dor
mitories. dining rooms. living and rec
reation rooms both for the students
and for the junior officers of instruc-
tion should be supplied in order that
there may be built up in the instltu-
ton a communal life now characters
tic of undergraduate colleges.
THE College OF Physicians and Suc-
geons is approaching the limit OF the
number of students which can De
,auoht under present cond tons and
AT The Drrsent site. The second great
need al this college. 10 help il to full
I'll the outlook which would seem %
be the destiny .or university scho"l
in New York CITY is AN endowment TO
- Z,
necessity belongs 20 an institution
teaching medicine on modern lines.
Even under the most careful manage
ment and with classes which fully oc-
cupy the educational capacity OF an in
st;tution. this deficit amounts to at
least $500 per student.
The development in Columbia o.
work in the teaching OF public health
and hygiene has been held in check and
retarded solely By this lack OF prope"
endowment 90 carry y on. and th'
work m thl, college ,''i j. CO. g.
BILE burden 10 the income Of Columbia.
The minimum of S7,j0O,0OO is required
Tor the purposes Of securing this ne"
stte or ur.,. broadway. OF rebuilding
the school and It's dependencies other
than the Presbyterian Hospital and o.
endowing both medical education and
the new field OF work IN sanitarr SCI
ence and public health.
THE war in Europe has attracted 4
rLmber of the instructors OF all grades
in the ,cnool 20 participate IN the med
cal and surgical work which is lnci-
dent 90 that great struggle. One-tnIr
of the war hospital branch Of the
American Hospital OF Paris has been
in the charge of Dr. Blake. formerly
professor Of surgery. and number u
the officers of the school have served
under him. The lIarie- base hospital
~ Agiucourt. the whitney base ho.-
uj,al a. Jouilly and the Fi'1ceralj base
hospital AZ Sens. conducted as Il
brarcn o. the French Hospital OF NeN
YORK.. have been manned 100 part an.
~ time very largely by different
groups Of surgeon from this schoo.
serving % rotation. Columbia has. .n
addition. entered into an agreement
with Harvard and Johns Hopkins JOINT
is 20 equip with surgeons ana nurses
one of the base hospitals 70 be organ
izcd under the British Mil'tarv Medical
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