University of Virginia Library

FACILITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR RESEARCH

The Department of Medicine not only fosters in its methods of instruction the
inductive study by the student himself of the phenomena presented by the human
body in health and disease, but also encourages the spirit of investigation of unsolved
problems of medical science and practice on the part of the instructors and
students. Students are encouraged to engage in research as they are prepared
for it, usually assisting an instructor in some special study or else conducting the
research under his guidance and advice. For this purpose the scientific and
clinical laboratories offer the necessary facilities, and heads of departments will
always be glad to suggest and outline problems for investigation by any medical
student or by others possessing the necessary training therefor.

Library.—The medical Library contains upwards of 7,000 volumes. It is
housed in the basement of the Rotunda, and is in charge of a special Librarian.
Its list of current journals includes over eighty of the more important domestic
and foreign periodicals. Enlarged quarters are being provided in the new Medical
Building to which the library will be moved during the present session.