Requirements in Individual Collegiate Subjects
(a) General Inorganic Chemistry. 4 session-hours are required, including
2 session-hours of laboratory work. In the interpretation of this rule work
in Qualitative Analysis may be counted as General Inorganic Chemistry.
It is desirable that more time than this be given to General Chemistry
and especially that either the elements of Physical Chemistry be included in
a 6 session-hour course in this subject or a supplementary course in Elementary
Physical Chemistry be taken.
Students are also advised when their premedical work extends over more
than two sessions to take at least 4 session-hours of Qualitative Analysis and
2 session-hours of Quantitative Analysis.
(b) Organic Chemistry. 3 session-hours are required of which at least
1 must be laboratory work. 4 session-hours including 2 session-hours of
laboratory work are recommended as giving better preparation in Organic
Chemistry.
(c) Physics. 4 session-hours required, of which at least 1 must be
laboratory work. It is urged that this course be preceded by a course in
Trigonometry and Solid Geometry.
(d) Biology. 4 session-hours required, of which 2 must consist of laboratory
work. The requirement may be satisfied by a course of 4 session-hours
in General Biology or Zoölogy, or by courses of 2 session-hours each in
Zoölogy and Botany, but not by Botany alone. Courses in Physiology and
Hygiene, Sanitation, Bacteriology, Histology, and other similar work covered
in the medical curriculum cannot be accepted as part of the premedical college
requirements in Biology.
(e) English Composition and Literature. The usual introductory college
course of 3 session-hours, or its equivalent, is required.
(f) Non-Science Subjects. Of the 30 session-hours required as the
measurement of two years of college work, at least 9, including 3 session-hours
of English, should be in subjects other than the physical, chemical, or
biological sciences.
Although not required for admission to the medical school, premedical
students are strongly urged to acquire the basic knowledge of French or
German—and preferably of both French and German—which will enable
them with a little practice to read with ease the medical literature published
in these languages. Apart from the cultural value of the study of a foreign
language and the use which may be found for French and German in the
study of medicine, a reading knowledge of one or both of these languages is
required for certain desirable postgraduate scholarships and fellowships.
When the student presents for admission to the premedical college course 2
units of high school work in either language, the usual 3 session-hour "second
year" college course will amply give this basic knowledge. When he begins
the study of the language in college, he should take at least 4, and preferably
5, session-hours in the language.
College courses in Physical Education and in Military Training or Military
Science will not be counted towards the 30 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 3 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 credit 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.
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 4 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.
The Committee on Advanced Standing will not in general consider
favorably applications which are not accompanied by a distinctly good record
in the school previously attended. Only in case of illness or equivalent cause
will it admit a student to a year in which he has failed elsewhere and then
only when, in the judgment of his previous instructors, he would have succeeded
but for his illness.
Whenever a student is admitted to advanced standing he must take and
pass the full work of the class to which he is admitted unless by permission
of the Dean he substitutes for one or more of the regular courses of his
class other courses of approximately the same credit value.
Students are not received with advanced standing to the fourth-year
class.
Limitation of Numbers and Reservation of Places.—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.
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
17, 1931).
Any applicant whose record has been endorsed by the Dean of the Department
of Medicine as entitling him to admission to the class to which
he seeks admittance, may at a specified time after June 25 of which he will be
given due notice 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. 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 equivalent cause, the
Dean of the Department of Medicine directs that it be returned.
By the deposit, under similar conditions, of the entire fees for the year
a student may have a place reserved for him until 5 p. m. of the last day of
registration.
Women over twenty years of age are admitted to the medical department
by satisfying the entrance requirements specified above.
All women students must first register at the office of the Dean of Women,
20 East Lawn.
