 | The University of Virginia record March 1, 1929 |  |
PRE-MEDICAL COURSES
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 3 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
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.
All the pre-medical courses are offered in the Summer Quarter.
| The University of Virginia record March 1, 1929 | |