The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-12-20
College Needs Change,

The necessity for making the pro
posed change was explained by prs,
b. f Turner, William krauss, Marcus
| llaaSo, j g. Mclilroy and Max Goltmau
| and by Bolton Smith and G. y. j,
Mooney, the two latter members oi
| the board Of trustees OF the university.
They stated that the recent rules Of
| the American Medical association,
| which rates all colleges demand thai
any medical college with Class A
rating. must control absolutely hos
pital If the college Is not given such
| absolute control, 1t can not remain IN
| Glass A, and II the local college Is
not given that rating, it can not hope to
| obtain students and must be closed
! The trend Of the rulings issued for
| the past few years by the educational
| council of the American Medical aSso-
| citation has been to Centralizc medical
| teaching In a few great medical schools.
| with large endowmCnts and great hos
| nital facilities That was admitted by
| all the speakers
| The doctors who opposed the pro
| posed plan said that they were not OPP
| poscd 10 the college or its faculty hut
| that the men outside the faculty had
| not been treated frankly or consulted
| In any way RS to the new contract
and ordinance, and that while perhaps
| 50 physicians and surgeons are con.
nected with the college, there are 200
| In Memphis,
The contract provides for the cree
ton OF "A modern laboratory building on
| the hospital grounds to cost from Slb,OOO
| to 500 900, the facilities Of the Iabora e
| tory TO he used for the benefit OF the
hospital and the college jointly. 1t IS
| also proposed to remodel Eve hall, which
| will be used exclusively for the out
patient department Of the hospital
| which is conducted now by the col
| ege faculty, and treats an average Of
| 20, 600 patients a year, II Ia IN partial
consideration for these benefits to the
hospital that the college Is to be given
| control Of the staff appointments both
| winter and summer
Bolton Smith, for the university truS-
tees, outlined great plan for enlargtng
tho facilities OF the medical college,
creating summer post graduate
course. establishing II special depart
| mont for training in public health work
and generally increasing the usefulness
Of the college He said that while II
is admitted that the attendance this
| year Is lower than at any time In the
history OF the medical school-pr De
| Loach had Just stated that the tota
enrolment In the medical department
| IA only d7-with these enlarged faCili-
ties and enlarged departments, the at
| tendance should show surprising
growth in the next few years. The
attendance in former years has been
az hieh as 900 to 400 and IN the old
Memphis Hospital Medical college
which was ahaOrhed 10y the university
the attendance was generally more than
600 annually. sometimes l.IO0 But
that was before the regulations for ad-
mission included "A high school diploml
and not less than two years Of college
work. and a full time teaching staff
The commissioners took no action
Friday. A speCial meeting of the Mem
phis and Shelby County Medical So.
ciety viii be held Monday night tc
consider the matter and will report &c
the city commission next Tuesday
The trustees of the hospital are or
record as anprovinC the ordinance and
contract Mavor-elect Rowlett Paine
telographed his approval of the plan
and other members Of the Incoming ad.
ministration favor It, Apparently May
or Monteverdc and Commissioners Ma
son and Goodman also are favorably
impressed with the mutual advantages
both TO the city, and patients in the
hospital and to the University Of Ten
nessee which would result from the
prop )sed plan The ordinance W!ll come
up on final passage Tuesday,
About so Of the most prominent ply
sicians attended Fridays conference,