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.
