Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-01-30
TO PREPARE MEDICAL STUDENTS
instruction to BE Given to Fit Thorn
For Service ia Time Of War.

For Service ia Time Of War.
Chicago, Jan. 29--Ninety medical
schools in the United States with a
total enrolment In graduating classes
of more than 5000 young men, avail-
able for army and navy service, will
Institute on Feb. /, a series of lectures
on naval and military sanitation and
treatment of the sick in both branches
Of the service.
These lectures will constitute a reg
ular course in nearly all the medical
schools Of the country and will be un-
der supervision of Surgeon General
William c.. Gorgas. Z. s. A., and Sur
geon General William C, Braisted, Y.
N. The new curriculum, prepared
by the army and navy medical school,
lis the result of movement started by
DR.. Franklin H. Martin, of Chicago,
member of the commission of national
defense. 1t is predicted that army and
navy, now'600 short in medical officers
will be able not only to fill vacancies
but to have large reserve.
tArmy and navy officials developed
a number of motion pictures showing
every phase of hospital construction.
reception Of patients at military hos
pitals, methods of discharging patients.
and administration Of military nos
pital their idea being that If regular
army medical officer lectured to stu
dents and had screen Illustrations TO
clarity his assertions, the ocular DEM
onstration would carry as much weight
as the vocal.
Under the Hay law provision was
made to fill a pressing need for more
medical officers in both arms OF the
service. Heads of the medical depart
ment were pleased but were chasrineo
when they discovered tho they were
authorized to engage experts they hao
no power to enforce training on medl-
cal students. DR.. Martin then submitted,
his program of army and navy FUR
nishins trained lecturers to the medical
schools. Tie suggestion resulted In an
invitation from Secretary of War BAKER
to the deans of the acceptable medicai
schools OF the United States. to meet IN
Washington on Jan. 6; representatives
of eighty five of the institutions re-
sponded and resolutions were adoptsa
by these Representatives promis!ns
complete operation between their
medical schools and the government.
With perfection Of this plan, J thinh
the United States will be as well pre-
pared from the standpoint of medical
military and naval officers as any
country in the world" said DR.. Martin,
mo branch of military or naval service
can be more important than that when
not only deals with the health OF the
soldier and sailor, but ministers to the
wounded. The added Importance OF
camp sanitation can not be over-esti-
mated 4i@
DR.. Martin has been much interested
in survey ,aof medical and hospitaf
resources of the United States, made
with view to any emergency, under
direction of the secretary of the COM
mittee of physicians for national de-
tense, DR., Frank f. Simpson, of Pitts
burgh. This committee is now coop
Grating with the medical section of the
Commission for National Defense with
DR.. Simpson in charge. All hospital
authorities have co-operated, DR.. Mar
tin said and Cardinal Gibbons Of Balti-
more sent aGsortaial letter approving
the plan