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ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS.

The requirement for admission to the first year of the Department
of Medicine is a four-year high-school education or its full equivalent
and two years of work in a college of arts and sciences approved by
the Council on Medical Education of the American Medical Association,
as follows:

I. HIGH SCHOOL REQUIREMENTS.

(a) For admission to the two-year premedical college course, students
shall have completed a four-year course of at least fourteen units (fifteen
after Jan. 1, 1920) in a standard accredited high school or other institution
of standard secondary school grade, or have the equivalent as demonstrated
by examinations conducted by the College Entrance Examination Board or
by the authorized examiner of a standard college or university which has
been approved by the Council on Medical Education of the American Medical
Association.

(b) Credits for admission to the premedical college course may be
granted for the subjects shown in the following list and for any other subject
counted by a standard accredited high school as part of the requirements
for its diploma, provided that at least eleven units must be offered in
groups I-V:

Group I. English. (Three units required)

Literature and Composition.

Group II. Foreign Languages. (Two units required, both of which must be
in the same language)

Latin, Greek, French, German, Spanish, Italian, or other modern foreign
language.

Group III. Mathematics. (Two units required)

Elementary Algebra, Advanced Algebra, Plane Geometry, Solid Geometry,
Trigonometry.

Group IV. History. (One unit required)

Ancient History, Medieval and Modern History, English History,
American History, Civil Government.

Group V. Science.

Botany, Zoölogy, Chemistry, Physics, Physiography, Physiology, Astronomy,
Geology.

Group VI. Miscellaneous.

Agriculture, Bookkeeping, Business Law, Commercial Geography, Domestic
Science, Drawing, freehand and mechanical, Economics and
Economic History, Manual Training, Music—appreciation or harmony.

A unit is the credit value of at least thirty-six weeks' work of four or
five recitation periods per week, each recitation period to be not less than
forty minutes.

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
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, including one ancient or modern language (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,
Logic, Mathematics, Latin, Greek, Drawing.

REQUIREMENTS IN INDIVIDUAL COLLEGIATE SUBJECTS.

(a) General Inorganic Chemistry. Four session-hours are required, including
two session-hours of laboratory work. In the interpretation of
this rule work in qualitative analysis may be counted as general inorganic
chemistry.

(b) Organic Chemistry. Three session-hours are required of which at
least one must be laboratory work. Four session hours including two
session-hours of laboratory work are recommended as giving better preparation
in organic chemistry.

Students are advised to take, in addition to the required general and
inorganic chemistry at least four session-hours in qualitative analysis and
two session-hours in quantitative analysis.

(c) Physics. Four session-hours required, of which at least one must
be laboratory work. It is urged that this course be preceded by a course
in trigonometry and solid geometry.

(d) Biology. Four session-hours required, of which two must consist
of laboratory work. The requirement may be satisfied by a course of four
session-hours in general biology or zoölogy, or by courses of two session-hours
each in zoölogy and botany, but not by botany alone.

(e) English Composition and Literature. The usual introductory college
course of three session-hours, or its equivalent, is required.

(f) Non-Science Subjects Including One Modern Foreign Language.
Of the thirty session-hours required as the measurement of two years of
college work, at least nine, including three session-hours of English, should
be in subjects other than the physical, chemical, or biologic sciences. At
least three of these nine session-hours must be in an ancient or modern
foreign language. When the student has presented for admission to College
two units of high school work in an ancient or modern foreign language,
he must complete three session-hours in the same language, this

work to be the continuation and not a repetition of his high-school work.
When the language studied in College was not studied in high school, he
must complete work aggregating four and should preferably complete six
session-hours in the language.

College courses in Physical Training and in Military Training or Military
Science will not be counted towards the thirty session-hours required
for admission to medicine; nor will required courses in Bible and Biblical
Literature be counted, unless the course has a credit value of at least three
session-hours for one session.

No entrance conditions whatever can be allowed nor can any substitutions
be made for the required subjects. Premedical students in other colleges
and universities who are considering the possibility of entering upon
their medical studies in this university are urged to have the authorities of
the University of Virginia pass officially upon their academic credits early
in their last premedical college year and in no case later than June 1, of
that year. Deficiencies may be discovered in this way in time to remove
them before the following September. Such students will incur no obligation
to enter this medical school. The prohibition of entrance conditions
in all Class A medical colleges makes it especially important for the student
to be absolutely sure six months or more beforehand that the course he is
taking will admit him to the study of medicine. Many deficiencies can be
made up by work in summer schools.

Further information concerning the character of entrance requirements
and forms for certificates may be obtained by addressing the Dean of the
Department of Medicine.

In planning two years of premedical college work students are advised
to take English, mathematics (solid geometry, plane trigonometry,
and advanced algebra), biology, and general inorganic chemistry the first
year; and organic chemistry, physics, foreign language, and one or more
electives the second year. This arrangement of studies is advised because
mathematics should precede physics and general inorganic chemistry
must precede organic chemistry. Those who have to take four or more
session-hours of college work in foreign language may find it advisable
to take foreign language both years and take the mathematics in a summer
school following the first premedical college session.

Admission with Advanced Standing.—Students are admitted to advanced
standing in the second and third years under the following conditions:

1. Satisfaction of the requirements for entrance into this department at
the time of entrance of the class to which the applicant seeks admission.

2. The presentation of a certificate of honorable dismissal from the
school last attended.

3. The presentation of the complete record of the student in the school
previously attended, on blanks to be obtained from the Dean of the Department
of Medicine. This record will be submitted to the action of the Faculty
Committee on Advanced Standing, and the admission of the student,
together with the terms of admission, will be determined by this committee.

Limitation of Numbers and Reservation of Places in the First-Year
Class.—The number of students in the first-year class is limited to sixty-five.
Reservation of a place, if desired by the applicant, can be made beforehand
on the conditions hereinafter described.

Those intending to enter the Department of Medicine are advised to ascertain
at once by correspondence with the Dean of the Department of Medicine
whether their high-school and college courses entitle them to admission
to the first-year class. For this purpose there may be obtained from
the Dean a blank form on which the necessary information may be entered
in full.

At the time of registration, applicants will be registered in the order in
which they present themselves, until all vacancies are filled. Applicants who
have not made reservations, as described below, are therefore advised to
apply for registration at 9 o'clock of the first day of registration (September
15, 1921).

Any applicant whose record, certified by the proper official of the college
last attended, has been endorsed by the Dean of the Department of
Medicine as entitling him to admission to the first-year class, may at any
time after June 25 and before the registration period in September have
a place reserved for him until 12:00 noon of the first day of registration
by depositing with the Bursar the sum of $50.00 in part payment of the
tuition fee of the first year. A reservation so made can be cancelled only
in exceptional cases. In case a student who has obtained a reservation
fails to register, the deposit of $50.00 will be forfeited to the University
unless, in case of illness or other providential cause, the Dean of the Department
of Medicine directs that it be returned.

Women over twenty years of age are admitted to the medical department
by satisfying the entrance requirements specified above.