EUGENE WOODRUFF, M. D
Public Health Service; Director 01 Division 01 Local Health Organization, Tennessee State Department of Public Health since 1925.
HEARN BRADLEY, M. D
RAY BRYAN, B. S
FREY, M. D
RUCKS, M. D
ALBERT SULLIVAN, M. D
Va.derbilt U.iversity; Certificate in Ophtbalmology' University ofVi••na, 1921; Assista.t to the Chair of Ey •• Ear, Nose and Throat- Vanderbilt U.iv.
OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES OF THE FACULTY
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
THE STAFF OF THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
PATHOLOGY
GENERAL STATEMENT
HISTORY
In the spring of 1929, the General Education Board made a donation of for additional endowment of the School of Medicine, thus replacing with permanent endowment a series of annual grants to the individual. The building of the School of Medicine is located in the southeast corner of the University Campus. The building on the west side of the court contains the laboratories of gross and microscopic anatomy, of pathology, and of bacteriology.
The two buildings connecting the buildings of the north and the south courts contain laboratories, lecture rooms and. The laboratories in these uildings are arranged especially for the use of the clinical epartments of the school. The building for the school of nursing is in conformity with the building of the medical school.
The power house is located on the west side of the campus, facing 1'wenty-fourth Avenue. The buildings of the School of Medicine contain all the necessary departments, facilities and equipment for con- ducting a modem hospital and for the teaching of all the subjects contained in the medical curriculum. The entire hospital is operated by members of the teaching staff of the School of Medicine.
The out-patient department occupies the entire first floorof the southern portion of the building. The surgical operating rooms are placed over the central portion of the medical school court, facing north.
REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION AND GRADUATION
Seniors in absentia of collegiate institutions of recog- nized standing who will be granted the Bachelor's degree by their colleges after having completed successfully at least one year of the work of the School of Medicine. Students of foreign universities of recognized standing who have completed at least the equivalent of three years of collegiate education may be admitted to the School of Medicine at the discretion of the Committee on Admissions. As admission to the School of Medicine is competitive, students will be selected on the basis of the qual£ty of their college work and the general fitness of the applicant for the study of medicine.
Applications for admission should be filed at as early a date as possible, and not later than :May 15th of the year during which admission is sought. Successful completion of the various courses of the medical curriculum and the assignment of grades are deter- mined by the character of the students' daily work and the results of examinations. The average grade for the year is obtained by adding the computed grades and dividing this sum by the sum of the course values.
Xo information regarding grades is gh'en out from the office of the dean Students will be notified whenever the Committee on Promotion and Graduation considers their. Students who at the beginning of an academic year have failed to complete all the work of the preceding years may not be allowed to carry all the prescribed courses. Additional units may be granted for special work when such work is considered by a committee of the faculty to be of superior quality.
They must have satis- factorily completed all the required courses of the medical curriculum, have passed all prescribed examinations, and be free of indebtedness to the University. At the end of the fourth year every student who has fulfilled these require- ments will be recommended for the degree of Doctor of Medicine.
GENERAL INFORMATION
FEES AND EXPENSES
MICROSCOPES, BOOKS, APPARATUS, ETC
This medal is awarded to the student in the graduating class of each School of the University who has attained the highest average standing in scholarship throughout the four years of study. It is a handsome building in the collegiate Gothic Style designed chiefly as a center for the social life of the Unh'ersity. For the successful opcration of the Honor System the cooperation of cvery student is essential.
The Phi Beta Pi Lectureship was established by the Kashville chapter of the Phi Beta Pi medical fraternity. This lecture is given under the auspices of the facuIty of the School of Medicine. Each year a lecturer of prominence is selected, and the lecture is open to the medical students, faculty, and local members of the medical profession.
At these meetings papers are presented by the teaching staff and students of the school, representing the research that is being carried. These meetings are open to students of the school and to the medical profession of the community. The Library of the Medical School contains at present over 25,000 volumes and receives approximately 325 current medical periodicals.
The Library is in charge of trained librarians who assist readers in the use of the material available. The students of the first-year class wiII be given, early in the first trimester, a brief period of instruction in the use of a medical library.
GENERAL PLAN OF INSTRUCTION AND
Each academic year with the exception of the first (semesters), is divided into three trimesters of eleven weeks each. As Tuesday and Thursday afternoons are usuaIly free from required work for all classes, with the exception of the first year class, there is an opportunity for students of different classes to work together in elective courses. This feature of the curriculum tends, to some extent, to break down the sharp distinction between the classes.
Although there is no sharp demarcation in the curriculum between the laboratory and the clinical courses, the first year and the greater part of the second year are taken up in the study of the medical sciences,-anatomy, biological chemistry, physiology, bacteriology, pathology and phar- macology. During the third trimester of the second year attention is strongly focused on technical training needed for the study of patients, which is begun in the hospital wards with the beginning of the third year, the students being assigned to the various wards of the hospitals in groups. The fourth year students are assigned to the different divisions of the out-patient department.
During the fourth year an opportunity is also given the students to acquire some of the simpler methods of specialists. Throughout the latter half of the course the students are taught as far as possible by practical work, and every effort is made to develop sound and well-trained practitioners of medicine. Finally, during the fourth year courses in preventive medicine are given, with the intent of familiarizing the student with the more important aspects of the prevention of disease, of public health and of hygiene.
Graduate work in the IVledical Sciences is regu- lated by the Committee on Graduate Instruction of the University, which controls such work in all departments of the University. POSTGRADUATE INSTRUCTION IN MEDICINE Postgraduate instruction in the School of Medicine has recently been placed under the direction of a faculty com- mittee in cooperation with the heads of the departments.
COURSES OF INSTRUCTION
Lectures and laboratory work six hours a week during the third trimester of the second year. Sixteen hours of lectures and laboratory work a week during the first trimester of the second year. Four lectures and six hours of laboratory work a week during the second trimester of the second year.
Ten hours of lectures, demonstrations and practical work a week during the third trimester of the second year. One-third of the third-year class is assigned to the medical wards during one trimester. MEDICALOUT-PATIENTDEPARTMENT.One-sixth of the stu- dents of the fourth-year class are assigned during half of one trimes- ter to the medical out-patient department.
The students take an important part in the diagnostic and therapeutic activities of the clinic. One-sixth of the fourth year class is assigned to the neurological out-patient depart- ment during part of each trimester. One-sixth of the third year class is assigned to the pediatric wards during one-half of each trimester.
Two hours a week during the first and second trimesters and one hour a week during the third trimester of the fourth year. PEDIATRICOUT-PATIENTDEPARTMENT.One-sixth of the fourth yetlr class is assigned to the pediatric out-patient department during one-half of a trimester.
SURGERY
The course also includes instruction in the methods of application of the usual surgical dressings. The object of the course is to prepare the students for beginning their clinical training. The student is instructed in the methods of physical examination of the abdomen, spine, joints and deformities.
The students of the third and fourth year classes are expected to attend two surgical clinics each week. Three hours a week during the first and second trimesters and two hours a week during the third trimester of the third year. Approximately fifteen hours a week during half of one trimester of the third year, exclusive of outside deliveries.
Three hours (one afternoon) a week during the first and second trimesters of the fourth year. The available material in the wards of the Vanderbilt University Hospital willbe used for instruction purposes. The material in the urological division of the Vanderbilt University Hospital Out-Patient Department is sufficient.
The students will receive instruction in the diagnosis and care of the more frequent diseases of the male genito-urinary system. Also special instruction will be given in the technique of the use of the cystoscope.
STUDENTS, 1929-1930
HONORS
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SCHEDULE OF ELECTIVE COURSES
