ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS.
The minimum requirement for admission to the first year of the Department
of Medicine is a four year high school education or its full equivalent
and two years of work in a college of arts and sciences approved by
the Council on Medical Education of the American Medical Association, as
follows:
I. HIGH SCHOOL REQUIREMENTS.
(a) For admission to the two year premedical college course, students
shall have completed a four year course of at least fourteen units (fifteen
after Jan. 1, 1920) in a standard accredited high school or other institution
of standard secondary school grade, or have the equivalent as demonstrated
by examinations conducted by the College Entrance Examination Board or
by the authorized examiner of a standard college or university which has
been approved by the Council on Medical Education.
(b) Credits for admission to the premedical college course may be
granted for the subjects shown in the following list and for any other subject
counted by a standard accredited high school as part of the requirements
for its diploma, provided that at least eleven units must be offered in
groups I-V:
Group I. English. (Three units required)
Literature and Composition.
Group II. Foreign Languages. (Two units required, both of which must be
in the same language)
Latin, Greek, French, German, Spanish, Italian, or other modern foreign
language.
Group III. Mathematics. (Two units required)
Elementary Algebra, Advanced Algebra, Plane Geometry, Solid Geometry,
Trigonometry.
Group IV. History. (One unit required)
Ancient History, Medieval and Modern History, English History,
American History, Civil Government.
Group V. Science.
Botany, Zoölogy, Chemistry, Physics, Physiography, Physiology, Astronomy,
Geology.
Group VI. Miscellaneous.
Agriculture, Bookkeeping, Business Law, Commerical Geography, Domestic
Science, Drawing, freehand and mechanical, Economics and
Economic History, Manual Training, Music—appreciation or harmony.
A unit is the credit value of at least thirty-six weeks' work of four or
five recitation periods per week, each recitation period to be not less than
forty minutes.
II. PREMEDICAL COLLEGE COURSE.
In addition to the high school work specified above, a candidate for admission
to the Department of Medicine must present evidence of the completion
of thirty 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
thirty session-hours of college work should be in accordance with the following
schedule:
| Required Subjects: |
Session-hours. |
| Chemistry (a) |
6 |
| Physics (b) |
4 |
| Biology (c) |
4 |
| English Composition and Literature (d) |
3 |
Other non-science subjects, including one modern foreign
language (e) |
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,
Logic, Mathematics, Latin, Greek, Drawing.
REQUIREMENTS IN INDIVIDUAL COLLEGIATE SUBJECTS.
(a) Chemistry. Six session-hours required, of which at least four must
be in general inorganic chemistry, including two session-hours of laboratory
work. In the interpretation of this rule work in qualitative analysis
may be counted as general inorganic chemistry. The remaining two session-hours
may consist of additional work in general chemistry or of work
in analytic or organic chemistry.
(b) Physics. Four session-hours required, of which at least one must
be laboratory work. It is urged that this course be preceded by a course
in trigonometry and solid geometry.
(c) Biology. Four session-hours required, of which two must consist
of laboratory work. The requirement may be satisfied by a course of four
session-hours in general biology or zoölogy, or by courses of two session-hours
each in zoölogy and botany, but not by botany alone.
(d) English Composition and Literature. The usual introductory college
course of three session-hours, or its equivalent, is required.
(e) Non-Science Subjects Including One Modern Foreign Language.
Of the thirty session-hours required as the measurement of two years of
college work, at least nine, including three session-hours of English, should
be in subjects other than the physical, chemical, or biologic sciences. At
least three of these nine session-hours must be in a modern foreign language.
When the student has presented for admission to college two units
of high school work in a modern foreign language, he must complete three
session-hours in the same language, this work to be the continuation and
not a repetition of his high school work. When he does not present two
units of a modern foreign language for admission to college, he must complete
work aggregating at least four session-hours in a modern language.
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 credits 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.
Further information concerning the character of entrance requirements
and forms for certificates may be obtained by addressing the Dean of the
Department of Medicine.
In planning the two-year college work, students are advised to take
English, mathematics, biology, and a modern language during the first year,
and to take physics and chemistry during the second year. This arrangement
of studies is advised because mathematics should precede physics, and
it is desirable to avoid the lapse of a year between the general chemistry
of the college and the organic and physiological chemistry of the first year
of the medical curriculum. Students who have completed general chemistry
and who have one more year of college work for entrance to the medical
school, are advised to take some courses in chemistry (e. g., analytical,
physical, or organic chemistry) during their last year in college.
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.
Limitation of Numbers and Reservation of Places in the First-Year
Class.—The number of students in the first-year class is limited to thirty-six.
Reservation of a place, if desired by the applicant, can be made beforehand
on the conditions hereinafter described.
Those intending to enter the Department of Medicine are advised to ascertain
at once by correspondence with the Dean of the Department of Medicine
whether their high-school and college courses entitle them to admission
to the first-year class. For this purpose there may be obtained from
the Dean a blank form on which the necessary information may be entered
in full.
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
18, 1919).
Any applicant whose record, certified by the proper official of the college
last attended, has been endorsed by the Dean of the Department of
Medicine as entitling him to admission to the first-year class, may at any
time before the registration period 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 of the first year. 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 other providential cause,
the Dean of the Department of Medicine directs that it be returned.
