The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-04-27
SITE PROBLEM
FOR MEDICAL
SCHOOLS OLD
Dean Guy l.. Noyes Discusses
Question of Removal of
Seat of Instruction
TO a CITY.
POLICY OF UNIVERSITY
Location in Small Town With
Rest of Divisions Is
Not an Untried
Experiment.

Econs that ii might be advantageous ia
shc University of Missouri 10 give il
medical instruction in Kansas Cil
rather than Columbia Dean Guy
Noycs Of the School of Medicine has oui
lined in behalf Of the University the rca
sons for maintaining the school here. Tn
Board Of Curators. at lis meeting Tues
,Iay. announced that after careful cor
sdcraiion it re-afiirmcd il policy Of e.
tablishing a four-ycar medical Cours
and a state hospital al Columbia. Rc
garding the location of medical college
in large cities distant from the univer
sifics Of which they are a part, Dear
Moves says:
The problem of location of the medica
school j. presented whenever the uniSer
sily i in a small city or town. Tw'
courses are open: 10 go to large cit,
where clinical material i Immediately ac
ccesiblc or Ia keep the medical school al
tire seat of the university and provide the
clinic in a state hospital. The solution
involve, weighing the advantages and
disadvantages of each course. and the
proper course will differ in different
cases. There can be no perfectly salts
factory solution. since it i impossible Ia
sc-urc in either location the advantages
of both.
Location Of the medical school with
the rest of university in small city or
town is not an uniried experiment. Michi-
aan and Iowa have strong medical schools
At Ann Arbor and Iowa City, respectively.
Wisconsin. after wears of hesitation. has
decided upon the same course at Madison.
Thus two of the great stale universities
have succeeded with the experiment. In
the best educational thought of the coun-
iry there is reluctance to locate the medi-
cal school away from the rest of the uni
Nersiiy.
There are certain administrative ad-
Naniages in a university location but the
essential advantages are educational.
Some of the educational advantages may
be enumerated as follows:
The majority of medical students in
4 state university enter upon the study OF
medicine after only the minimum two
year requirement of college training and
experience. MANY of these students come
to college with an inadequate background
of experience in the family or the envi-
ronmcnt. In the two years of pre-medical
college work they have only begun TO
benefit by the formative influence of uni.
ycrsity life. These benefits of university
residence ccmc not only from the class
room but also from other features Of uni.
Ncrsiiy life.
EDUCATION l. PARAMOUNT
After all. the biggest thing in medical
or any other kind of technical educa,ion
is education itself. which must prccede
and accompany the giving of more tech.
meal skill. The time has not passed nor
will il ever pass when the journalist. the
lawyer. the schoolmaster. and the physi,
clan largely represent 10 the youth Of
most communities the higher things OF
life. In training the physician you are
training man for this service to his com.
for the sick and promoting the public
health.
students in other departments of the
university are 'broadcned' by contact with
medicine. The lawyer. the engineer, the
journalist and the man of affairs learn
the scope and spirit of modern medicine
They acquire a sympathetic insight into
medicine which will subsequently rebound
10 the advantage Of the stale in their in.
iclligcni support Of the advance of mcdi
cine and public health.
a great modern medical school on the
campus of the university will attract to
the profession of medicine larger num-
bcr of that large body Of students who
come to college after completing the high
school course without having chosen their
career. The medical school would be
located at the chief source of supply.
There is dangerous and distressing
shortage of teachers Of medical subjects
and the most difficult problem in operat
ing a medical school is to secure com.
pc:cni. active and devoted faculty. Uni.
,ersiiy associations strongly appeal to the
men who enter the profession Of teaching
vocational teachers-and a strong med
ical school at the university will attrac,
these men more than one detached from
This environment. Teaching is an under.
paid profession In university commun,
iy the professors salary determines the
social and other demands on that salary.
In 4 large city his immediate social group
would be leading practitioners Of medi.
cine and surgery. men whose incomes
treble or quadruple his. Living conditions
are therefore better at the university and
this attracts better teachers.
Il University location presents to the fac.
uliy and students of medicine the invalu,
able asset of class contact with the fun.
damental sciences of physics. chemistry
and biology and related sciences such as
Of psychology and sociology. To have the
Libraries Of these sciences available for
reference by teachers Of the medical
sciences is most desirable. bu, the oppor.
tunity 10 consult with the professors in
these sciences is even more important.
conversely the medical sciences frequent