The Columbus Medical Journal (Volume 30) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1458868982 ISBN 13: 9781458868985

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906. Excerpt: ... THE MEDICAL COLLEGE CURRICULUM--THE LAST TWO YEARS. BY GAIUS J. JONE8, M. D., Dean and Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine, Pathology and Differential Diagnosis, Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College, Cleveland, Ohio. I appreciate the honor conferred upon me by the invitation to discuss Dr. Oliver's valuable paper before this meeting. I do not know who was responsible for originating the idea of the teachers in the medical schools of Ohio meeting together in this manner for the purpose of mutual benefit and for improvement of the instruction in our various schools. The idea is certainly a good one and will prove beneficial to all concerned. Remarkable changes have taken place in the curriculum of every medical college during the past ten years. Most of them have proved beneficial, but it was unavoidable that some of them have not seemed to be as satisfactory as was expected. Dr. Oliver speaks of the former method of teaching when only two courses of lectures were required. It should be borne in mind that in those days, every student was required to study medicine under the immediate supervision of some legally qualified physician for at least three years, inclusive of the time he spent at college, the minimum of which was two courses of lectures of four months each. Many of the preceptors required their students to recite daily to them, and they discussed all important cases with their students, so that, in place of eight months of instruction there were thirty-six months instead of the twenty-four which is now the minimum requirement. In this way the student acquired an originality of thought which is apparently absent in many students of the present day. The preliminary requirements are such at Discussion of Dr. J. C. Oliver's paper before ...

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