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REGULATIONS, EXPENSES, ETC.
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REGULATIONS, EXPENSES, ETC.

Regulations.—The records given after the regular examination on a
course, with their explanations, are as follows:

Passed indicates the satisfactory completion of the course and admits to
all dependent subjects.

Conditioned means that to obtain a clear record on the course the student
must pass a special examination. Failure to take or to pass this examination
is equivalent to a record of "failed." The record "conditioned" is
not given in fourth year subjects, except in case of illness or other equivalent
cause approved by the faculty.

A student may be conditioned on any examination because of failure to
maintain a reasonable standard of English composition.

Deficient indicates that part of the work of the course has not been completed.
Upon the satisfactory completion of this work within the time and
in the manner prescribed by the professor in charge, the student receives the
record "passed"; otherwise the record is "failed" on the entire course.

Failed indicates that the course must be repeated; except that when the
laboratory or other practical work has been satisfactorily performed, the
professor in charge may, at his discretion, excuse the student from repeating
the same; and, by special vote of the faculty, the student may be granted
optional attendance upon the course, in whole or in part. In general, a
student who is repeating a course will be required to attend all the exercises
of the course, and will not be excused from any exercise thereof because of
schedule conflicts with more advanced work.


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Absence from a regular examination, when excused because of illness or
other equivalent cause, gives a record of conditioned; if not excused, a record
of failed.

To pass a regular or a special examination, a grade of eighty per cent. is
required. If the grade is less than eighty per cent. but not less than seventy
per cent., the student is entitled to the record conditioned; but the record
conditioned is not given in fourth-year subjects, except under the conditions
noted above.

No student will be admitted to any subject of the second or third year
(save by the consent of the Dean and the professors concerned), if more
than one-third of the work of the preceding year remains unfinished. If at
the beginning of the year his deficiencies have not been made up by the
satisfactory completion of courses at some school approved by the instructors
in charge at this university, he may continue as a student in the Department
of Medicine only by repeating the courses in which he has failed. In
the interpretation of this rule the values of the subjects of the first and second
years are estimated in points as follows:

Anatomy 1, 36 points; Anatomy, 2, 6 points; Histology, 18 points; Embryology,
9 points; Biochemistry, 30 points.

Anatomy 3, 8 points; Physiology, 27 points; Bacteriology, 12 points;
Pathology, 28 points; Pharmacology, 11 points; Clinical Diagnosis, 6
points; Physical Diagnosis, 4 points.

Whenever in the judgment of the faculty a student is receiving too many
records below the grade of passed, the faculty may prescribe special conditions
upon which the student may remain in the Department of Medicine,
or may require his withdrawal therefrom.

Students will not be allowed to undertake the work of the third or
fourth year until they have completed that of the first year, save by special
consent of the Medical Faculty.

A student may not take any course, either in whole or in part (as explained
under the above definition of failed) more than twice. A second
record of failed on the same course involves withdrawal from the Department
of Medicine.

Candidates for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, who have less than one
full year's work to complete, may be required to take such additional work
and to pass such additional examinations as the Medical Faculty may prescribe.
This additional work may be selected from any of the courses given
in the Department of Medicine, even when such prescribed courses have
previously been taken and passed by the candidate in question.

Certificates of Attendance.—Students who attend the whole regular
course of one or more of the four years are entitled to an official statement
under the seal of the University, showing all courses for which the student
was registered each year as a medical student and the record (see above
under "Regulations") with the percentage grade received on each course for
which he was registered. These statements will also contain any special
faculty votes affecting the student's registration in this school.


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Requirements for Graduation.—The degree of Doctor of Medicine is
conferred by the University of Virginia upon candidates who have complied
with the entrance requirements of this department; attended a regular
medical course of four years of at least eight months each, the last two
of which years must have been at this institution; and have satisfactorily
completed all of the subjects included in the medical course.

Examinations.—These are in writing, accompanied in many subjects by
individual practical examinations. Examinations may be held only during
the regular examination periods at the end of each term or during the vacation
periods. No examinations may be given while regular class work is in
progress; provided this rule is not to be interpreted to prohibit unannounced
written tests or regular daily or weekly tests which count on the class standing
of students. The regular examinations are held at stated periods during
the session. In addition, examinations are held each year during the week
immediately preceding the beginning of lectures. To the latter are admitted:

1. Students of the previous session who, from illness or other equivalent
cause approved by the faculty, were unable to present themselves for
examination in any particular subject at the regular time.

2. Students who at the regular examination in any first, second, or
third year subject of the preceding session have attained a grade less than
eighty per cent., but as much as seventy per cent., on one or more subjects,
as explained in a preceding paragraph; or any student who has received the
record conditioned on a course taken in this university.

3. Certain applicants for advanced standing who are admitted to these
examinations by the Committee on Advanced Standing.

The usual period for special or conditioned examinations is in September
during the week of registration; but such examinations may be scheduled,
at the option of the professor in charge, for any other time, provided
regular class work is not in progress and also provided all students entitled
to take examination agree to the change of date. For a special or condition
examination held at any other time than that assigned for all students entitled
thereto a fee of five dollars is charged. This fee must be paid to the
Bursar before the examination is held.

In all courses in which there is practical work, either in the laboratory
or in the outpatient department or wards of the hospital, two records are
returned to the Registrar's office for each student: one of these records is
for the practical laboratory or clinical work—in which the record is P(assed),
D(eficient), or F(ailed), the other record is for the didactic work, including
the final examinations—in which case the record is P(assed), C(onditioned),
D(eficient), or F(ailed), with the approximate percentage grade. To
obtain a clear record on the course a student must have a record of P(assed)
both on practical and on didactic work; in no case will the two grades be
averaged. No record whatever is given on didactic work unless there is a
record of P(assed) on practical work; failure on practical work gives a
record of F(ailed) on the entire course.


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The Fall Examinations for 1923-1924 begin September 10 and close September
15. Students entitled to admission to these examinations will be
informed of the date of examination by the Dean.

Expenses.—The fees for instruction are 1, the tuition fee; 2, the university
fee which entitles the student to the use of the Library, Gymnasium,
to medical attention, etc.; and 3, special laboratory fees, as specified below:

                         
FIRST
YEAR 
SECOND
YEAR 
THIRD
YEAR 
FOURTH
YEAR 
Tuition  $160.00  $160.00  $135.00  $135.00 
University fee  40.00  40.00  40.00  40.00 
Laboratory fees: 
Biochemistry  10.00 
Anatomy  17.50  2.50 
Histology and Embryology  7.50 
Physiology  10.00 
Bacteriology and Pathology  12.50 
Pharmacology  5.00 
Clinical Diagnosis  5.00  5.00 
Materia Medica and Toxicology  5.00 
Total  $235.00  $235.00  $185.00  $175.00 

The minimum for necessary living expenses, including room, heat, light,
furniture, service, board, books, and laundry, is estimated at $400.

In the course in Biochemistry, a deposit of $10 is required to cover cost
of breakage.

Voluntary Withdrawal from the University requires the written consent
of the Dean of the University and the dean of the department in which
the student is registered. When a permit is granted upon the University
Physician's certificate that withdrawal is necessary on account of ill health,
which must not be due to dissolute conduct, the fees are returned pro rata.
Under no other circumstances will there be a return of fees.

Combined Degrees in Arts (or Science) and Medicine.—Students who
have credit for the forty-eight session-hours of the group electives required
in this university for the cultural baccalaureate degrees in arts and
science may substitute for twelve session-hours of electives-at-large the
first-year course in the Department of Medicine and receive the degree of
Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science at the end of the year.

The University also offers a course leading to the vocational degree of
Bachelor of Science in Medicine. This course includes two years of group
electives in academic subjects followed by the first two years of the medical
course. Since the academic group-electives satisfy the entrance requirements
of the Medical Department, students who can spend only two years
in college before entering upon the study of medicine are advised to plan
their work so as to secure this degree.


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For further information regarding these degrees, see the General Catalogue
of the University.

The William A. Herndon Scholarships are founded upon the bequest of
Dr. Cumberland George Herndon, a graduate in medicine of this university.
They are awarded by the Medical Faculty after a competitive examination
held during the summer vacation preceding enrollment as a student in the
Medical Department. Candidates must be unable to defray the expenses of
their medical education and must signify their intention of entering the
medical service of the army or navy of the United States. These scholarships
provide for the necessary expenses of the student during the entire
four years of his medical course and are awarded whenever there is a vacancy.
Both Herndon scholarships will be awarded in September, 1923. For
information as to the examinations and other requirements, address the Dean
of the Department of Medicine.

Other Scholarships and Fellowships open to medical students in common
with students in other departments of the University are: The Valentine
Birely Scholarship; the Thompson Brown Scholarship; the Isaac Cary Scholarship;
the William C. Folkes Scholarships; the Bennett Wood Green Scholarships;
the McCormick Scholarship; the Pi Kappa Alpha Scholarship; the
Thomas Fortune Ryan Scholarships; the Virginia Division of the Unit
Daughters of the Confederacy Scholarship; and the John Y. Mason Fellowship.

Loan funds are also available. For full information regarding scholarships,
fellowships, and loan funds, see the General Catalogue of the University.

The Alpha Omega Alpha Society.—On November 15, 1919 a charter
was issued for the establishment in this University of a chapter of the
honor medical society, Alpha Omega Alpha, to which there are chosen
annually one-fifth of each graduating class, on the basis of scholarship,
character, and professional promise. Since publication of the catalogue of
1921-22, the following have been elected to membership: from the class of
1922, Charles Calhoun Hedges, Charles Bruce Morton, B.S., Albert Austin
Pearre, B.S.; from the class of 1923, Monroe Jacob Epting, Jr., B.A., Robert
Battaile Hiden, B.A., and Calwell Jackson Stuart, B.A.