The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1920-04-15
COLLEGE or MEDICINE
WILL RECEIVE WOMEN


University Of Vermont Takes Adyane.
I'd Step To~ard Overcoming scarel
ity Of Doctors IN Rural Communi'
ties
In an effort 10 partly relieve the
argent need for more doctors, espec-
tally in the rural communities, the
University Of Vermont has decided 70
open the doors Of the medical college
70 women. Next fall. for the first
time in the history Of this institution,
women win enter the college on exact.
~ the same status as men. Dean II
&. Tinkhan, who has been furtherinp
the project and who originated the
movement, said Saturday that he ex-
pocted bctwecn FIVE and ten women to
take up the course next fall.
Dean Finkham said that in the rural
communities Of northern New England
and New York the situation WAS very
bad as regards doctors. He is con-
stantly receiving letters from different
localities asking for relief. In two
places within the last year the demand
for doctors has been so acute that the
communities have Offered TO finance 8
doctor starting in and have bought
him his instruments, automobile, Office
furniture, etc, for the purpose Of in
dueing him TO locate in their midst
He iold Of strip of country bounded
on the west Of Hyde Park and johnson
and on the east by Newport ard North
Troy. 40 miles long, In which there IS
al present only ono physician. This Is
not IN isolated instance but is common
in the rural districts.
There arc many fields in medicine in
which women can be as efficient as
Inen. While some may become ex-
pcrts In surgery, il is not thought
that they will turn so much to,this as
20 other lines. There is a great short
age Of doctors for institutional work
laboratories, and in many other fields
All branches win be open TO the wom-
an. however, and the same courses viii
be given them rs arc the men. Tho
diploma will carry with it all the
pcwera and privileges that the others
hive.
In the academical department Of th'
University Of Vermont are many
women who are eligible TO take th'
course in medicine because Of theii
previous preparation. The same Is
true Of other colleges in New England
There is at present no place nearer
than New York where a women car
attend medical college.
When Dean Tinkham first topk hold
Of the idea, there was q crying need
for doctors because Of the younger
men who had gone into the service
In addition TO finding that a large
number OF the best medical colleges
did admit women Il was also found
'that in view Of the large number OF
medical schools which do admit WON
en-, and OF the present conditions in
medical education II is the belief Of
the committee that the time has com'
when /, Is advisable to have 1t definite
~ known that the University Of Yer
mont college Of medicine will admit
women on the same conditions that
men are admitted"
Now two years must he put in or
the academical side before admittanc'
Is given TO the medical college. The
courses In the arts college are arrang
ed with a view to preparing th'
students for work in medicine and alsC
giving them liberal education. They
are Obliged 10 take sciences, military
science and some other subjects, which
enable them TO meet the requirements
of IN American Medical association II
an A grade college.