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II. Premedical College Course

The requirements given below are strictly minimum requirements. Premedical
students are advised to take more than thirty session-hours of college work, either
by spending an additional year in college or by taking thirty-three or thirty-six
session-hours during their two years as college students. Entrance conditions of
any kind whatsoever are absolutely prohibited and no substitution can be allowed
for any required subject.

In addition to the high-school work specified above, a candidate for admission
to the Department of Medicine must present evidence of the completion in a manner
satisfactory to this medical school of at least thirty session-hours of collegiate
work in a college approved by the Council on Medical Education of the American
Medical Association. A session-hour is the credit value of one hour a week of
lecture or recitation or two hours a week of laboratory work throughout a session
of at least thirty-two weeks, exclusive of holidays. The subjects included in the
thirty session-hours of college work should be in accordance with the following
schedule:

Required Subjects:

             

	Session-hours.
General Inorganic Chemistry (a)	4
Organic Chemistry (b)	3
Physics (c)	4
Biology (d)	4
English Composition and Literature (e)	3
Other non-science subjects (f)	6

Subjects Strongly Urged:

French or German, Advanced Botany or Advanced Zoölogy, Psychology, Advanced
Algebra, Solid Geometry, and Trigonometry, additional courses in Chemistry.

Other Suggested Electives:

English (additional), Economics, History, Sociology, Political Science, Ethics,
Logic, Mathematics, Latin, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Drawing.

Credit Not Given for an Incomplete Course.

Credit can be accepted only when the student has a clear record on the entire
course; for example, if the course in general physics is a six session-hour course
consisting of three hours lecture and six hours laboratory weekly for three trimesters
and the student passes on two trimesters but fails on the third, no credit
for admission to medicine can be given for the portion of the subject passed, even
though the credit value of this work is four session-hours. In all cases the student
must have completed the entire subject for which he is registered. Deficiencies of
this kind may however be made up by obtaining a clear record in the portion of
the subject in which the failure has occurred, without repeating the entire course.