II. Premedical College Course
The requirements given below are strictly minimum requirements. Premedical
students are advised to take more than 30 session-hours of college work,
either by spending an additional year in college or by taking 33 or 36 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 30 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 30 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 6 session-hour
course consisting of 3 hours lecture and 6 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 4 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.
Aptitude Tests: Applicants are strongly advised to take the Aptitude Tests
of the Association of American Medical Colleges.
