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EXAMINATIONS.

The examinations are of two characters: 1st. The daily oral examinations;
2nd. Written examinations, Intermediate and Final.

The value of the daily examination or recitations on the subject of the
preceding lecture can scarcely be overestimated; students who would not
otherwise take advantage of their opportunities for instruction being
thereby stimulated to increased exertion. These recitations also give the
Professor an opportunity of finding out the difficulties which the student
may have encountered in the previous lecture, and of correcting erroneous
impressions which he may have formed.

The intermediate written examinations stimulate the student to proper
reviews, and serve to familiarize him with the form and methods of examination
for graduation.

The examinations for graduation are rigid written examinations, in
which the answers to the questions must be full and comprehensive.

Besides these examinations, there is a general oral review at the very
close of the session on all the different branches on which the student

has graduated during either that session or some preceding one; this
review, being intended to test the permanent acquisition of such general
knowledge as every practitioner of medicine should possess, need call for
no special preparation.

Heartily approving the regulation of medical practice by the State, and
the establishment of State Boards of Medical Examiners, entirely independent
of medical schools, the Faculty have introduced these oral reviews
in order to prepare students more thoroughly for the State Examinations
in Virginia, and the other States which hold such examinations,
as well as for entrance into the Medical Corps of the Army and Navy
and the Marine Hospital service.