 | The University of Virginia record February 15, 1924 |  |
DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE.
Edwin Anderson Alderman, Ph.B., D.C.L., LL.D.
President.
Theodore Hough, B.A., Ph.D.
Dean.
| JOHN STAIGE DAVIS, M.A., M.D. | Professor of Practice of Medicine |
| WILLIAM ALEXANDER LAMBETH, M.D., Ph.D. | Professor of Hygiene |
| WILLIAM DOUGLAS MACON, B.A., M.D. | Professor of Obstetrics |
| THEODORE HOUGH, B.A., Ph.D. | Professor of Physiology and Biochemistry |
| STEPHEN HURT WATTS, M.A., M.D. | Professor of Surgery and Gynecology |
| HALSTED SHIPMAN HEDGES, B.S., M.A., M.D. | Professor of Diseases of the Eye |
| HARRY TAYLOR MARSHALL, B.A., M.D. | Walter Reed Professor of Pathology |
| ROBERT FRENCH COMPTON, M.D. | Professor of Diseases of the Ear, Nose and Throat |
| JAMES CARROLL FLIPPIN, M.D. | Professor of Clinical Medicine |
| HARVEY ERNEST JORDAN, M.A., Ph.D. | Professor of Histology and Embryology |
| ROBERT BENNETT BEAN, B.S., M.D. | Professor of Anatomy |
| JAMES ALEXANDER WADDELL, B.A., M.D. | Professor of Pharmacology, Materia Medica and Toxicology |
| LAWRENCE THOMAS ROYSTER, M. D. | Professor of Pediatrics |
| WILLIAM HALL GOODWIN, B.A., M.D. | Associate Professor of Surgery and Gynecology |
| JOHN HENRY NEFF, B.A., M.D. | Associate Professor of Genito-Urinary Surgery |
| WILLIAM EDWARD BRAY, B.A., M.D. | Associate Professor of Clinical Diagnosis and Director of Clinical Laboratories |
| CARL CASKEY SPEIDEL, Ph.D. | Associate Professor of Anatomy |
| ROBERT GRAHAM WIATT,[1] M.D. | Assistant Professor of Roentgenology |
| WILLIAM SHIRLEY KEISTER,[2] B.A., M.D. | Assistant Professor of Public Health |
| WILLIAM EDWARD BROWN, M.D. | Assistant Professor of Phthisiotherapy |
| ISAAC ALEXANDER BIGGER, JR. M.D. | Assistant Professor of Surgery |
| BERT BARNET HERSHENSON, B.S. | Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biochemistry |
| JAMES ERNEST KINDRED, M.A., Ph.D. | Assistant Professor of Histology and Embryology |
| Dudley Crofford Smith, B.S., M.D. | Dermatology and Syphilology |
| Allen Fiske Voshell, B. A., M. D. | Orthopedic Surgery |
| Henry Beardon Mulholland, M.D. | Medicine |
| Robert Massie Page, B.S., M.D. | Surgery |
| Frank McCutchan, M.A., M.D. | Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat |
| Frank Helvestine, Jr., M.D. | Surgery |
| James Edwin Wood, Jr., B.A., M.D. | Medicine |
| India Hunt, B.A., M.D. | Pathology and Bacteriology |
| Robert Battaille Hiden, B.A., M.D. | Physiology and Biochemistry |
| William Barrington Hubbard, M.D. | Anatomy |
| Gregory Fedor Lukianoff, B.A., M.D. | Pathology and Bacteriology |
| Vincent William Archer, B.S., M.D. | Roentgenology |
| Thomas Henry Daniel, M.D. | Medicine |
| Edward May Magruder, M.D. | Medicine |
| Hugh Thomas Nelson, M.D. | Medicine |
| Monte Lewis Rea, M.D. | Pediatrics and Dermatology |
| William Wirt Waddell, Jr., M.D. | Pediatrics |
| Hall Holloway Ratcliffe | Materia Medica and Pharmacology |
| Winston Underwood Rutledge | Materia Medica and Pharmacology |
| James Wilkinson Jervy, Jr. | Histology and Embryology |
| Morris Cohen | Materia Medica and Pharmacology |
| Preston Nowlin, B.S. | Materia Medica and Pharmacology |
| Wiley Jackson Rollins, Jr., B.A. | Pharmacology |
| Harry Justice Warthen | Pharmacology |
| Carolina Ramsey Randolph, B. A. | Laboratory Assistant in Clinical Diagnosis |
| Mary Constable | Technical Assistant in Pathology |
| Joy Justin | Technical Assistant in Surgical Pathology |
| Arthur Chancellor Wood | Technical Assistant in Physiology and Biochemistry |
Correspondence with reference to admission to the first year class
should be addressed to Dr. J. A. Waddell, Chairman Committee on Admissions.
For information as to lodgings, board, expenses, etc., and for catalogues
and other printed literature, address the Registrar.
For other information, address the Dean of the Department of Medicine.
The session of 1924-1925 opens on September 18. The registration days
are September 18-20. A fee is required for delayed registration.
ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS.
The 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.
The following are the minimum high school requirements of the American
Medical Association and the Association of American Medical Colleges and must
be satisfied for admission to all Class A medical schools. Students entering
the College of the University of Virginia for their premedical college work
must also satisfy the regular entrance requirements for admission to the College.
(See the General Catalogue.) These differ from the requirements stated below only
in that 2½ units of mathematics (1½ in Algebra and 1 in Plane Geometry) are
required.
(a) For admission to the two-year premedical college course, students
shall have completed a four-year course of at least fifteen units 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 of the American Medical Association.
(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, Commercial 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.
The requirements given below are strictly minimum requirements. Premedical
students are advised to take more than thirty session-hours of college
work, either by spending an additional year in college or by taking thirty-three
or thirty-six 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 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:
| 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,
Logic, Mathematics, Latin, Greek, 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 six session-hour
course consisting of 3 hours lecture and six 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 four 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.
REQUIREMENTS IN INDIVIDUAL COLLEGIATE SUBJECTS.
(a) General Inorganic Chemistry. Four session-hours are required, including
two session-hours of laboratory work. In the interpretation of this
rule work in qualitative analysis may be counted as general inorganic chemistry.
It is desirable that more time than this be given to general chemistry and
especially that either the elements of physical chemistry be included in a 6 session-hour
course in this subject or a supplementary course in elementary physical
chemistry be taken.
Students are also advised when their premedical work extends over more than
two sessions to take at least four session-hours of qualitative analysis and two
session-hours of quantitative analysis.
(b) Organic Chemistry. Three session-hours are required of which at
least one must be laboratory work. Four session-hours including two session-hours
of laboratory work are recommended as giving better preparation
in organic chemistry.
(c) 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.
(d) 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. Courses in
physiology and hygiene, sanitation, bacteriology, histology, and other similar
work covered in the medical curriculum cannot be accepted as part of the premedical
college requirements in biology.
(e) English Composition and Literature. The usual introductory college
course of three session-hours, or its equivalent, is required.
(f) Non-Science Subjects. 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.
Although not required for admission to the medical school, premedical
students are strongly urged to acquire the basic knowledge of French or German—and
preferably of both French and German—which will enable them
with a little practice to read with ease the medical literature published in these
languages. Apart from the cultural value of the study of a foreign language
and the use which may be found for French and German in the study of
medicine, a reading knowledge of one or both of these languages is required
for certain desirable post-graduate scholarships and fellowships. When the
student presents for admission to the premedical college course 2 units of
high school work in either language, the usual 3 session-hour "second year"
college course will amply give this basic knowledge. When he begins the
study of the language in college, he should take at least 4, and preferably 5,
session-hours in the language.
College courses in Physical Training and in Military Training or Military
Science will not be counted towards the thirty session-hours required
for admission to medicine; nor will required courses in Bible and Biblical
Literature be counted, unless the course has a credit value of at least three
session-hours for one session.
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 credit 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.
In planning two years of premedical college work students are advised
to take English, mathematics (solid geometry, plane trigonometry,
and advanced algebra), biology, and general inorganic chemistry the first
year; and organic chemistry, physics, foreign language, and one or more
electives the second year. This arrangement of studies is advised because
mathematics should precede physics and general inorganic chemistry must
precede organic chemistry. Those who have to take four or more session-hours
of college work in foreign language may find it advisable to take
foreign language both years and take the mathematics in a summer school following
the first premedical college session.
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.
The Committee on Advanced Standing will not in general consider favorably
applications which are not accompanied by a distinctly good record in the school
previously attended. Only in case of illness or equivalent cause will it admit
a student to a year in which he has failed elsewhere and then only when, in the
judgment of his previous instructors, he would have succeeded but for his
illness.
Students are not received with advanced standing to the fourth year class.
Limitation of Numbers and Reservation of Places.—The number of
students in the first-year class is limited to sixty-five: and in the second, third,
and fourth year classes to sixty each. Reservation of a place, if desired by the
applicant, can be made beforehand on the conditions hereinafter described.
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, 1924).
Any applicant whose record has been endorsed by the Dean of the Department
of Medicine as entitling him to admission to the class to which he seeks
admittance, may at any time after June 25 and before the registration period
in September 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. 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 equivalent cause, the Dean of the Department of Medicine directs that it be
returned.
By the deposit, under similar conditions, of the entire fees for the year a
student may have a place reserved for him until 5 p. m. of the last day of registration.
Women over twenty years of age are admitted to the medical department
by satisfying the entrance requirements specified above.
FACILITIES FOR AND METHODS OF INSTRUCTION.
There are well-equipped laboratories for the study of biochemistry, gross
anatomy, histology and embryology, bacteriology and pathology, physiology,
pharmacology, materia medica, and clinical diagnosis. These laboratories are
all presided over by trained teachers, to whom teaching and investigation are
primary considerations. The number of hours assigned to laboratory subjects
The student is brought into close contact with teachers who are both willing and
able to guide him; he gains a very large part of his knowledge at first hand
and by his own exertions, and thus acquires the habit of working out things
for himself; he becomes self-reliant, a quality essential to the practice of his
difficult profession. Trained in this manner, he acquires an understanding of
the medical sciences and the ability to apply the facts of these sciences to
the subsequent study of disease. For these reasons the great fundamental
sciences receive the utmost consideration, constituting the entire work of the
first two years.
The methods of clinical instruction are based upon the belief that no
clinical teaching is efficient which is not governed by essentially the same
principles as those which govern the best laboratory teaching. This instruction
is accordingly designed to enforce with the individual student a
careful, thorough, face-to-face study of disease and its management. The
facilities afforded by the University Hospital and Out-Patient Department
are described on a subsequent page. After two sessions devoted to laboratory
training, the student is introduced in the third year to the study of
disease in living persons. In the Out-Patient Department and in the Hospital
he learns the methods of examining patients, of diagnosing their
diseases, and of instituting rational treatment; and he learns these things
in much the same way as he studied in the laboratory, that is to say, by
doing them himself under the direction and criticism of the instructors. This
practical training is accompanied by a systematic study of the various subjects
by means of lectures, textbooks, and recitations. With this preparation
the student is ready to enter upon the hospital work in his fourth year.
Here he has advantages for clinical training similar to those enjoyed by
internes. Each clinical patient on admission to the hospital is assigned to
a student, and that patient is regarded as his "case." The student conducts
a complete examination, records his observations in a scientific manner,
makes a diagnosis, states his view as to the treatment indicated, and keeps
a complete record of the case, all under the advice and criticism of the
physician or surgeon in charge. He is expected to keep himself informed
of the progress of the case throughout its course. If it is one requiring
surgical treatment, he assists at the operation, and thus is able to follow
all the procedures of the operator at close range. In addition, students
make frequent visits to the wards with the attending physicians and surgeons,
during which visits the nature, treatment, and progress of various
cases are gone over in detail. To carry out this method of clinical instruction
the hospital had last year over 3,800 cases. The patients of the Blue
Ridge Sanatorium afford additional material for clinical instruction. Since
the number of students in each class is relatively small, it is clear that the
department offers capable young men clinical advantages which are distinctly
exceptional.
Opportunities are offered in the third and fourth years for more extended
after graduation.
At the meetings of the Medical Journal Club reviews of important articles
and results of original research are presented by the instructors and
by invited guests. These meetings are open to the students.
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.
Absence from a regular examination, when excused because of illness or
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.
Save by special vote of the Medical Faculty to the contrary, the following
records at the close of the regular session in June require repetition of the
entire work of the year.
For first year students;
1. Failure in two subjects.
2. Failure in one subject and Conditions in two subjects.
4. Conditions in four subjects.
For second and third year students:
1. Failure in one subject and Condition in one subject.
2. Conditions in three subjects.
Save by special vote of the Medical Faculty to the contrary a clear record
on all first and second year subjects at the time of registration is required for
admission to the work of the third year.
The clause in the above rules, "save by special vote of the Medical Faculty
to the contrary" refers solely to "illness or equivalent cause." It does not refer
to the necessity for summer occupation or to any other than the most weighty
reasons for excuse from the operations of these rules. Generally the Faculty
will take the initiative in allowing exceptions to these rules.
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 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.
In no case will the University give an official certificate of the completion
of a part of a course. The professor in charge may, at his discretion, make
a personal statement by letter to the head of the same department in another
medical school of the work done by the student in his course; but he must at
the same time clearly state that this letter does not give credit in this medical
school.
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 required to take
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 nor will
any record be given on practical work until a clear record is obtained
on didactic work: failure on practical work gives a record of F(ailed) on the
entire course.
The Fall Examinations for 1924-1925 begin September 15 and close September
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 | 60.00 | 60.00 | 60.00 | 60.00 |
| 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 | $255.00 | $255.00 | $205.00 | $195.00 |
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 Sciences at the end of the year. For further
information, see the General Catalogue of the University.
The University offers also the degree of Bachelor of Science in Medicine.
This degree has recently been placed in charge of the Medical Faculty. New
requirements are now being formulated, whereby the degree will be open to medical
students from other colleges as well as to those who have had one year of premedical
work in the Academic Department of the University of Virginia. A
close of the present session.
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 were awarded in September, 1923, one to
a student in the present first year class and one to a student in the second year
class. New appointments to these scholarships are therefore unlikely to be
made until the session 1926-27. Applications must be made not later than July
1 of the year of appointment. For information as to the examinations and
other requirements, address the Dean of the Department of Medicine.
The Richard Henry Whitehead Scholarships, founded by an anonymous
donor in memory of Dr. Richard Henry Whitehead, Professor of Anatomy
and Dean of the Department of Medicine, 1905-1916, are awarded to young men
of promise who contemplate entering upon lines of medical work which will
advance medical knowledge either pure or applied. They are usually awarded
only to students who have completed at least two years of the medical curriculum.
It is not probable that new appointments will be made until the
session 1925-26. For further information 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 United
Daughters of the Confederacy Scholarship; and the John Y. Mason Fellowship.
Loan funds also are 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
1923-24 the following have been elected to membership: from the class of 1923,
Silas Eldridge Chambers, Eugene Leslie Lowenberg, B. S., John Powell Williams,
B. A.; from the class of 1924, Morris Cohen, Hall Holloway Ratcliffe
and Winston Underwood Rutledge.
COURSES OF INSTRUCTION.
In the following description of courses, the number of hours represents
the amount of time each student devotes to the course. In addition to the
hours scheduled in the third and fourth years of the course, each student
devotes a considerable amount of time to practical work which does not
appear in the schedule, but the satisfactory performance of which is essential
to graduation. Thus the taking of histories, the visits to his cases in
the hospital, assisting at operations, attendance upon cases of labor, the employment
of microscopical and chemical methods of diagnosis in the hospital,
require much time which it has not seemed possible to record in a
rigid schedule. It should, however, be stated that each student in the fourth
year gives at least six hundred hours to this required but unscheduled practical
work.
The session, exclusive of the time devoted to examination, is divided
into a fall term of twelve weeks, a winter term of ten weeks, and a spring
term of ten weeks.
FIRST YEAR.
Anatomy 1.—Twenty-four hours weekly during the first term and twelve
hours weekly during the second term. This course begins with a systematic study
of the bones, on the completion of which a part is assigned to each student for
dissection and study. On the completion of this course each student has dissected
a lateral half of the body. The student obtains his knowledge at first hand and
by his own personal efforts. The work in gross anatomy is completed by Anatomy
3 of the second year. Dr. Bean, Dr. Speidel and Dr. Hubbard.
Anatomy 2.—Six hours weekly during the third term. This course consists
in a laboratory study of the anatomy of the central nervous system carried
out in considerable detail. The gross anatomy of the spinal cord and brain
is first considered, on the completion of which sections of the more important
regions are studied carefully with the aid of the microscope. Fresh brains and
series of sections of the cord and brain are thoroughly used. A reconstruction
of the central nervous system showing the more important pathways is prepared
by each student. Dr. Bean and Dr. Speidel.
Histology.—Three lectures or recitations and six hours of laboratory
work weekly during the first and second terms. This course aims to acquaint
the student with the microscopic structure of tissues and organs. Cytogenesis
and histogenesis are briefly considered in the case of many tissues studied. The
relation of histology to physiology and pathology is constantly kept in view.
The student is also given opportunity to acquaint himself with the principles and
practice of histological technique.
A record of seventy per cent. in this course is required for admission to
Physiology, and of eighty per cent. for admission to Pathology. Dr. Jordan
and Dr. Kindred.
Embryology.—Nine hours weekly during the third term. The laboratory
work (six hours weekly) with sections and dissections of mammalian embryos,
is supplemented by lectures, recitations, and the study of models. The course
aims to give the student a knowledge of developmental processes, in the light of
which he may the better understand the more abstruse normal conditions of adult
anatomy, as well as many anomalies and variations. Dr. Jordan and Dr.
Kindred.
Biochemistry.—Lectures and recitations, six hours weekly during the second
and third terms; laboratory work, six hours weekly during the second term;
twelve hours weekly during the third term. The chemical structure and reactions
of carbohydrates, lipins, proteins, and other compounds occurring in the body.
Blood, milk and bile. The chemical physiology of digestion, secretion, excretion,
internal secretion, intermediary metabolism, and nutrition. The laboratory work
includes the study of carbohydrates, fats, fatty acids, soaps, proteins, purine
compounds, etc.; blood, milk, and bile; the digestive enzymes and the digestion
of foods; and extensive qualitative and quantitative work on urine. A grade of
seventy per cent. on this course is required for admission to Physiology. Dr.
Hough, Mr. Hershenson and Dr. Hiden.
SECOND YEAR.
Anatomy 3.—Four hours weekly through the first and second terms. This
course is the continuation of Anatomy 1, and consists of the systematic study
of topographic anatomy, with the aid of cross sections of the human body, special
dissections, and wet preparations with a review of the whole body in relation
to the needs of the student in general medicine and surgery. At the end of
this course a practical examination is given, covering the work of Anatomy 1,
2 and 3. Dr. Bean, Dr. Speidel and Dr. Hubbard.
Physiology.—Lectures, recitations, and demonstrations, eight and a half hours
weekly during the first term, four and a half hours during the second term;
laboratory work, eleven and a half hours weekly during the first term, two and
a half hours weekly during the second term. The physiology of muscle and nerve;
blood and lymph; the circulation; respiration; secretion; digestion; and nutrition,
and the central nervous system. The work of the laboratory closely follows
the lectures as an integral part of the study of each subject. Open only to students
who have obtained grades of seventy per cent. in Histology and Biochemistry.
An average grade of seventy per cent. and the satisfactory completion of the laboratory
work of this course is necessary for admission to Pharmacology. Dr.
Hough, Mr. Hershenson and Dr. Hiden.
Bacteriology and Pathology.—Twelve hours weekly throughout the session
and four additional hours a week during the second term. The work in pathology
is open only to students who have obtained a record of passed in Histology.
Bacteriology and Pathology are taught in a combined course. Emphasis
is laid upon the medical and public health aspects of bacteriology. Autopsies
and the study of gross and microscopic specimens supply the practical work
selected students for advanced work. Dr. Marshall, Dr. Hunt and Dr.
Lukianoff.
Pharmacology.—Lectures, recitations and demonstrations five hours weekly
and laboratory work six hours weekly, during the third term. The physical and
chemical characteristics and the mode of action of representative drugs and
other chemic agents are dealt with in both didactic and practical exercises. Special
attention is given to analysing and interpreting the results obtained in the
laboratory. An average grade of seventy per cent. on Physiology together
with the satisfactory completion of the laboratory work of Physiology is required
for admission to the course. Dr. Waddell, assisted by Mr. Ratcliffe, Mr.
Rutledge, Mr. Warthen, Mr. Rollins, Mr. Cohen and Mr. Nowlin.
Clinical Diagnosis.—Six hours weekly during the third term. In
this course the student is made familiar with those laboratory methods which
are helpful in the diagnosis of disease. These include, among others, the examination
of blood, urine, sputum, gastric contents, feces, spinal fluid, exudates and
transudates. Instruction is given in the Clinical Laboratory in the north pavilion
of the hospital, which is well equipped with the most modern instruments and apparatus.
This subject is completed in the second term of the third year. Dr.
Bray.
Journals.—In connection with the work in Physiology, Bacteriology and
Pathology, the second-year students meet with their instructors for one
hour each week from the first of December to the end of the session for
reports and discussion of the current literature of the above sciences. Three
reports are made at each meeting by the students.
Physical Diagnosis.—Four hours weekly during the third term. Instruction
is given in the principles and methods of physical examination. Attention is
given especially to the study of the normal subject. Dr. Flippin, Dr. Mulholland
and Dr. Wood.
THIRD YEAR.
Materia Medica.—Lectures and recitations six hours weekly and laboratory
work six hours weekly, during the first three-fourths of the fall term. A thorough
study is made of the sources, preparation, composition, properties and interactions
of medicinal substances to the end that they may be intelligently prescribed.
Special attention is paid to their standardization for purity and potency.
Prescription writing and incompatibility are dealt with in frequent practical exercises.
While the consideration of the more important preparations of the
Pharmacopeia and the New and Non-Official Remedies consumes the greater
portion of the allotted time, the course is concluded with a critical study of many
of the so-called patent medicines. Dr. Waddell, assisted by Mr. Cohen, Mr.
Nowlin, Mr. Ratcliffe and Mr. Rutledge.
Toxicology.—Lectures and recitations six hours weekly and laboratory
work six hours weekly, during the last quarter of the fall term. A systematic
liable to cause injury to health or loss of life, special attention being
given to their quantitative effects. Practical instruction is given in the methods
of isolating and identifying. The treatment of poisoning is dealt with in detail.
Dr. Waddell, assisted by Mr. Ratcliffe and Mr. Rutledge.
Clinical Diagnosis.—Eight hours weekly during the second term. Continuation
and completion of the second year course in this subject. The examination,
written and practical at the close of the course covers the work given
in the second and third years. Dr. Bray.
Theory and Practice of Medicine.—Three hours weekly of lectures and
recitations throughout the session; six hours weekly in the clinics for one-half
the session. A systematic course of lectures, supplemented by work in the outpatient
department and hospital. The class is divided into two sections, each of
which devotes itself for half the year to the medical service in the out-patient department,
and also twice a week receives instruction on selected cases in the wards
of the hospital. There is a general medical clinic once a week in the hospital
amphitheater. Dr. Davis, Dr. Flippin, Dr. Daniel, Dr. Nelson, Dr. Smith,
Dr. Mulholland and Dr. Wood.
Dermatology and Syphilology.—Two hours weekly of lectures during
the third term; six hours of clinic weekly for medical section. The importance,
etiology, prophylaxis, pathology, clinical history, diagnosis and treatment of
syphilis are discussed. This subject is completed in the fourth year, q. v.
Dr. Smith.
Surgery and Gynecology.—Four hours weekly of lectures and recitations,
and two hours weekly of surgical clinic throughout the session; with six hours
weekly in the out-patient department, two hours weekly in ward rounds in the
hospital. The study of surgery begins in the third year and continues through the
fourth year. In the third year the classroom work consists of lectures and recitations,
as arranged in the schedule, in which the principles and practice of surgery,
surgical diseases, surgical diagnosis, etc., are thoroughly discussed. The outpatient
department course in the third year gives opportunities for diagnosis and
treatment of clinical cases under close personal supervision. Experience in dressings,
bandaging, anesthesia and minor surgery is afforded. Surgical appliances
and technique are demonstrated to the students, divided into small groups. The
work in gynecology follows closely the outlines already described for surgery. In
addition, the out-patient department affords practice in palpation, diagnosis and
treatment. Dr. Watts, Dr. Goodwin, Dr. Bigger, Dr. Page and Dr.
Helvestine.
Urology and Proctology.—Of the total time assigned to surgery, one lecture
hour weekly for the first and second terms, and six hours weekly in the outpatient
department for one-fourth of the session are devoted to urology and proctology.
In the classroom a general survey of the surgery of the genito-urinary
tract and rectum is made by lectures and recitations. Especial emphasis is placed
one-fourth of the class at a time obtains supervised experience in handling clinical
cases and performing minor operations. Ample opportunity is afforded for the
observation of cystoscopic, urethroscopic and proctoscopic procedures. Dr. Neff
and Dr. Howze.
Orthopedics.—One hour weekly during the first and second terms; and
two hours weekly during the third term, with six hours weekly in the out-patient
department. Dr. Voshell.
Roentgenology.—Lectures, and practical demonstrations to the class in
sections throughout the year. The application of the X-rays to medicine and the
interpretation of plates in diagnosis. Dr. Wiatt.
Phthisiotherapy.—Six hours weekly for eight weeks, with each of the four
sections of the class. The work is given in three two-hour sessions a week, held
at the Blue Ridge Sanatorium, and consists of demonstrations, ward rounds and
assignment of cases for history taking and physical examination. At the end of
each clinic session the case history, physical signs, X-ray plates and laboratory
findings are compared in conference. The section is also invited to be present
at the fluoroscopic examinations on Friday mornings at the University Hospital.
The procedure followed aims to instruct in the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis
by systematically presenting each step separately at first and later combining
them all in the full consideration of the case, including the management
and treatment of the patient both in institutions and private practise. Dr. Brown.
Obstetrics.—Five hours weekly of lectures, recitations and manikin demonstrations
during the year, supplemented by work with patients in the wards of
the hospital. The class is divided into sections of five for manikin instruction
and for examination of patients in the hospital. The manikin course forms an
important part of the work, not only for teaching presentation, position and
posture, but also the mechanism of normal and abnormal labor and the application
of forceps. When the section is taken into the wards of the hospital, the methods
of examination, particularly abdominal palpation, are practiced on the living
subject. Dr. Macon.
Elective Courses.—In the second and third terms each student is required
to take an elective course of approximately five hours weekly. Elective courses
vary from year to year, and include both pre-clinical and clinical subjects.
FOURTH YEAR.
Theory and Practice of Medicine.—The same plan is followed in the
clinical work as that already described for the third year, each of the two
sections of the class devoting itself for half the year to the medical service
in the wards of the hospital. Full histories are taken of every case, thorough
examinations made, and management indicated by the students of each
division. These records are considered in the final grading of the student.
as follows:
Nervous Diseases and Insanity.—Three lectures and recitations weekly,
supplemented by clinical work during the first term. In this course is given also
instruction in electrotherapeutics. Dr. Davis
Pediatrics.—Three lectures and recitations weekly, supplemented by clinical
work during the second term. This course of lectures is intended to point
out in a brief way how disease is modified by childhood and to indicate how the
difficulties of diagnosis and treatment due to early age may best be dealt with.
The principles of infant feeding are emphasized and the student is taught how to
prepare the food. There is also a baby welfare clinic once a week in the outpatient
department. Dr. Royster and Dr. Waddell.
Case Teaching, Medical Ethics and Economics, and Insurance Exam-
inations.—Two hours weekly during the third term. Dr. Davis.
Internal Medicine.—Two lectures weekly throughout the session. In this
course the endeavor is made to bring to the attention of the senior student the
more important problems of Internal Medicine. The relationship of recent investigations
in the fields of normal and pathological physiology, biochemistry,
immunology, etc., to internal diseases is especially emphasized. No text-book is
used; students are referred to the files and current issues of journals and to reference
works in the Medical Library as sources of information. Dr. Flippin.
Dermatology and Syphilology.—Two lectures weekly during the first term.
After review of the anatomic and histologic structure and physiology of the skin
the diseases commonly met with are discussed. Ward rounds once weekly for
one-half the year. The interesting cases seen in the out-patient department are
admitted to the hospital for detailed study. Dr. Smith.
Surgery and Gynecology.—Two hours weekly of surgical clinic throughout
the session; five hours weekly of ward classes, supplemented by clinical work
in the wards and operating room for one-half the session with each of the two
sections of the class.
Instruction in surgery is carried on by clinics and bedside demonstrations in
the hospital. In the wards the students are assigned cases, whose histories they
must take. They must also make complete physical and clinical examinations,
urine analyses, blood examinations, etc. In the ward rounds the diagnosis, operaative
and other treatment, post-operative care of the cases, complications, prognosis,
etc., are discussed in detail. A large variety of cases is available and the
close contact of the students with their cases and with the routine of hospital
management offers many of the opportunities that an interneship affords. In the
operating rooms the students, in small groups, take part in the operations, thus acquiring
familiarity with technique, anesthetization, etc. Those of the class who are
not assisting witness the operations, whose important features are demonstrated
to them.
In gynecology, urology and orthopedics the students have the same general
in the public wards, attendance on ward rounds, at which the cases are discussed,
and observation and assistance in the operating rooms. Dr. Watts, Dr. Goodwin,
Dr. Neff, Dr. Voshell, Dr. Bigger, Dr. Page and Dr. Helvestine.
Orthopedics.—One hour weekly throughout the year for ward rounds. Dr.
Voshell.
Surgical Pathology.—An optional course. Two hours weekly during one-half
the session. This course is intended to supplement the general courses in pathology
and surgery and consists of lectures upon the pathology of surgical lesions,
demonstrations of fresh tissues obtained from the operating rooms, and
examination of microscopic sections. The student reviews pathological technique,
and frozen section work is emphasized. Dr. Goodwin.
Obstetrics.—The student attends, under the guidance of an instructor, the
labor cases in the hospital, and is required to prepare the history of patients and
to follow up the cases through the puerperium. Instruction is also given in the
care of the new-born. In addition the student has the opportunity of attending
patients in the out-patient department, and each student is expected to attend at
least six cases of labor. A clinic for third year students is held one day in the
week in the out-patient department for recording and examining pregnant women.
The patients are instructed in prenatal care, and students are assigned to each
case for attendance during labor under the guidance of an instructor. Dr. Macon.
Medical Jurisprudence.—One lecture weekly during one term of the
fourth year. The application of medical knowledge and skill to the needs of the
law is presented. References to literature are assigned for the fuller development
of special topics. Dr. Waddell.
Phthisiotherapy.—Two lectures weekly for four weeks supplemented by
demonstration clinics at the Blue Ridge Sanatorium. Dr. Brown.
Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat.—Two lectures weekly during
the first two terms, supplemented by regular two- to three-hour clinics three
times a week throughout the session and clinical lectures to sections of the
class as suitable cases occur. The class is divided into small sections and each
student is taught the methods of examination and the use of the ophthalmoscope,
head mirror, and of the laryngeal and post-nasal mirrors. In the clinics
each patient is assigned to a student, who must take the history and keep the record
of that patient; the case is then demonstrated by the professor in charge, and, if
possible, each student makes his own examination under the personal supervision of
the attending physician. Clinical cases are abundant, and during the year the
student sees and handles practically all the common diseases of the eye, ear and
upper respiratory tract. Dr. Hedges and Dr. Compton.
Hygiene.—One hour weekly throughout the session, and thirteen additional
hours in the second term. The course begins with a historical sketch of the developments
of preventive medicine, including short biographical sketches of the
contagious and infectious diseases, modes of propagation and methods of prevention
engage the attention of the student. With this preparation, the chemical
and bacteriological contamination of food, water, air and soil is made an important
study. Instruction is also begun in the proper location and construction of
habitations, hospitals, schoolhouses, etc., with special reference to the modern
methods of heating, ventilating and draining. Notice is taken of the special relations
involved in military and naval hygiene. Dr. Lambeth.
TABLE OF SCHEDULED HOURS IN EACH SUBJECT.
(Exclusive of examination periods.)
| DIDACTIC | LABORATORY OR CLINIC |
TOTAL | |
| Gross Anatomy | 66 | 342 | 408 |
| Histology | 66 | 200 | 266 |
| Embryology | 30 | 60 | 90 |
| Neuro-Anatomy | 20 | 40 | 60 |
| Biochemistry | 126 | 180 | 306 |
| Total | 308 | 822 | 1130 |
| Gross and Topographical Anatomy | 22 | 66 | 88 |
| Physiology | 132 | 140 | 272 |
| Bacteriology | 50 | 100 | 150 |
| Pathology | 100 | 180 | 280 |
| Pharmacology | 50 | 60 | 110 |
| Physical Diagnosis | 20 | 20 | 40 |
| Clinical Diagnosis | 15 | 45 | 60 |
| Total | 389 | 611 | 1000 |
| Materia Medica and Toxicology | 66 | 66 | 132 |
| Clinical Diagnosis | 20 | 60 | 80 |
| Theory and Practice of Medicine | 96 | 150 | 266 |
| Dermatology and Syphilology | 20 | ||
| Surgery and Gynecology | 138 | 175 | 353 |
| Orthopedics | 40 | ||
| Obstetrics | 96 | 45 | 141 |
| Electives | 100 | ||
| Total | 476 | 496 | 1072 |
| Nervous Diseases and Insanity | 36 | 250 | 400 |
| Pediatrics | 30 | ||
| Case Teaching, Ethics, etc. | 20 | ||
| Internal Medicine | 64 | ||
| Dermatology and Syphilology | 24 | 16 | 40 |
| Surgery and Gynecology | 96 | 275 | 371 |
| Forensic Medicine | 10 | 10 | |
| Obstetrics (estimated) | 40 | 40 | |
| Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat | 44 | 80 | 124 |
| Hygiene | 60 | 60 | |
| Total | 384 | 661 | 1045 |
FACILITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR RESEARCH.
The Department of Medicine not only fosters in its methods of instruction
the inductive study by the student himself of the phenomena presented by the
human body in health and disease, but also encourages the spirit of investigation
of unsolved problems of medical science and practice on the part of the instructors
and students. During the past few years there have appeared annually a
number of papers from its laboratories embodying the results of such investigations,
and it is the policy of the department to enlarge this feature of its
work in the future. Students are encouraged to engage in research as they are
prepared for it, usually assisting an instructor in some special study or else conducting
the research under his guidance and advice. For this purpose the scientific
and clinical laboratories offer the necessary facilities, and heads of departments
will always be glad to suggest and outline problems for investigation
by any medical student or by others possessing the necessary training therefor.
Library.—The medical Library contains upwards of 7,000 volumes. It is
housed in the basement of the Rotunda, and is in charge of a special Librarian.
The more important of its current journals include the following:
American Journal of Anatomy, American Journal of Diseases of Children,
American Journal of the Medical Sciences, American Journal of Obstetrics
and Gynecology, American Journal of Pharmacy, American Journal of
Physiology, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Genetics, American
Journal of Psychology, American Journal of Public Health, American Journal
of Syphilis, American Journal of Tropical Medicine, American Review of Tuberculosis,
Annals of Surgery, Archives of Pediatrics, Archives of Internal Medicine,
The American Naturalist, Anatomischer Anzeiger, Anatomical Record,
Annales de L'Institut Pasteur, Annales de Médecine, l'Anthropologie, Archiv für
Gynaekologie, Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology, Archino italiano
di ematologia e sierologia, Archives de Biologie, Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry,
Archiv für die Gesammtes Physiologie, Archives d'Anatomie microscopique,
Archives internationales de Physiologie, Archiv für Mikroskopische
Anatomie und Entwicklungsmechanik, Biochemical Journal, The Boston Medical
and Surgical Journal, Brain, The British Medical Journal, British Journal of
Dermatology and Syphilis, Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Bulletins et
Mémoires de la Société D'Anthropologie de Paris, Comptes Rendus, Endocrinology,
Folia hematologica, Index Medicus, The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, The
Journal of Anatomy and Physiology, The Journal of the American Medical
Association, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, The Journal of Bone and
Joint Surgery, The Journal of Comparative Neurology, The Journal of Experimental
Medicine, The Journal of Hygiene, The Journal of Immunology,
The Journal of Infectious Diseases, The Journal of Medical Research, The
Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, The Journal of the Optical Society
of America, The Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology, The Journal of
Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, The Journal of Physiology,
The Journal of Radiology, The Journal of Social Medicine, The Journal of
Medical Journal, Physiological Abstracts, Physiological Reviews, Proceedings
of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, Quarterly Journal of
Experimental Physiology, The Quarterly Journal of Medicine, The Journal
of Industrial Hygiene, Social Hygiene, The Southern Medical Journal,
Surgery Gynecology and Obstetrics, Transactions of the American Microscopical
Society, Proceedings of the New York Pathological Society, Virginia
Medical Monthly.
COURSES OF INSTRUCTION IN PUBLIC HEALTH.
A public health officer directs the public health activities over the region
which includes Charlottesville, Albermarle County and the University of Virginia.
The Director of the health unit is a member of the teaching staff of
the University, and gives a course to the medical students, and another to the
Summer School students. A course is offered which leads to the degree of
Bachelor of Science in Health Education in which emphasis is placed on public
health, personal hygiene and physical training. (See "Department of Education,"
p. 191.
After conference with the directing officials of the State Board of Health
two special courses have been designed to meet the existing needs in the counties
and smaller towns of Virginia.
Course No. 1. Training for Rural Health Officers. Medical graduates
will be received for twelve weeks of intensive training in the practical public
health work of county and town. The students will be under the supervision
of the Director of the Public Health Unit and will receive training in the field
and office; in addition they may be assigned for special training in one of the
laboratories or hospital departments of the University. Lectures will be given
upon the public health aspects of selected medical subjects. The training
will be selected from field work in problems of sanitation, water supply, farm
hygiene, school inspection and follow-up work, rural health nursing work, the
organization and conduct of clinics for the diagnosis of tuberculosis, baby welfare,
dental work, etc., and in the office management of a health office for a
county or town.
Upon successfully completing twelve weeks of training the applicant will be
recommended by the authorities of the University to the State Board of Health
for work as director of a rural health unit.
Classes limited to five. Students may begin work in January, April or
October, or at other times by special arrangement. Correspondence and inquiries
relative to this course should be addressed to the Department of Medicine.
Course No. 2. Training for Sanitary Inspectors. Qualified applicants twenty-one
years of age or over will be received for practical instruction with the
Health Department. The applicants will be taught the fundamental duties of
a Sanitary Inspector through practical training in Albemarle County and
Charlottesville. They will be under the supervision of the Director of the
Health Department. After satisfactorily completing ten weeks of such training
the student will receive from the University a card certifying to the State
Board of Health that he has the training necessary for a rural sanitary inspector.
Classes limited to five. Students may arrange by correspondence for admission
at any season convenient to the Health officer. Correspondence and inquiries
should be addressed to the Department of Medicine.
THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HOSPITAL.
Hospital Board: Drs. Hough, Davis, Watts, Hedges, Macon, Marshall,
Compton, Flippin, Royster, Goodwin, Bray, Neff, Wiatt, Smith, Voshell and
Bigger.
Visiting Staff: Drs. Davis, Watts, Hedges, Macon, Compton, Flippin,
Goodwin, Neff, Smith, Daniel, Magruder, Nelson, Rea, Brown, Voshell,
Royster, Bigger.
Daniel Burbridge Yancey,
Superintendent of the Hospital.
Robert Massie Page, B.S., M.D.,
House Surgeon.
William Jacob Norflett, M.D.,
House Physician.
Frank Helvestine Jr., M.D.,
Assistant House Surgeon.
Frank McCutchan, M.A., M.D.,
Resident in Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat.
Berlin Berthold Nicholson, M.D.
William Henry Clay White, M.D.
Ray Jackson Neff, B.A., M.D.
Richard Dulany Gill, M.D.
Louis Christian Brand, M.D.
Charles William Scott, M.D.
Thomas Duckett Jones, B.A., M.D.
Samuel Harvey Rivers, B.A., M.D.
Internes.
Charlie Hugh Allman,
Ambulance Surgeon.
Jeanette Scandreth, R.N.
Anesthetist.
Margaret Brand Cowling, R.N.
Superintendent of Nurses.
Elizabeth Andrews, R.N.
Assistant Superintendent of Nurses.
Byrd Payge McGavock, R.N.
Instructor in Training School.
Essie Belle Russell,
Dietitian.
William Edward Bray, B.A., M.D.
Director of Clinical Laboratories.
Harry Taylor Marshall, B.A., M.D.,
Pathologist.
India Hunt, B.A., M.D. and Gregory Fedor Lukianoff, B.A., M.D.,
Assistant Pathologists.
Vincent William Archer, B.S., M.D.
Roentgenologist.
William Ellis Pinner
Resident Assistant in Roentgenology.
Rees Morgan
Pharmacist.
The hospital is the property of the University and is under the exclusive control
of its Medical Faculty. It was designed and is administered as a teaching hospital,
being so arranged that free use can be made of its clinical material without
in any way disturbing or violating the privacy of other patients.
The buildings are arranged upon the pavilion system, consisting of a central
structure, four stories in height, to which have been added up to the present
time three additional units of three stories each. The central building is largely
devoted to administrative purposes and general service departments, but also contains
an amphitheater and suite of private operating rooms, sterilizing and anesthetizing
rooms. The three pavilions are connected with the main building by
corridors on each floor. In these are located the wards and suites of rooms for
private patients. As at present constituted, the hospital has a capacity of about
200 beds; of these, upwards of 160 are available and used for clinical teaching.
The north pavilion contains, in addition to quarters for ward and private
patients, on the first floor, a specially designated series of laboratory rooms,
which have been equipped with new and modern furnishings and apparatus
throughout. The basement floor is devoted in large part to the Out-Patient Department
of the Hospital. Here separate waiting rooms for white and colored
patients are provided, examining rooms for medical cases, operating rooms for
minor surgery, specially equipped rooms for genito-urinary and orthopedic surgery
and for the treatment of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. On the
same floor is the Roentgen Ray Department of the hospital.
Attention is particularly called to the fact that the hospital, with its associated
Out-Patient Department, constitutes a most valuable adjunct to the teaching
facilities of the Department of Medicine. The size of the clinic permits the
presentation of a wide variety of cases, and the organization of the hospital as
an integral part of the Medical Department affords exceptional facilities for
thorough study of the individual case.
The location of the University Hospital is a most favorable one, being situated
at the intersection of two great railway trunk lines near the geographical
available as a source of clinical material, both in the wards and the Out-Patient
Department. The hospital is thus enabled to serve a large area of the State,
and the transportation facilities are such that this service includes a progressively
increasing number of emergency cases and cases of acute illness.
THE OUT-PATIENT DEPARTMENT.
CLINICAL INSTRUCTORS.
Dr. Davis.
Dr. Flippin, Chief of Staff.
Dr. Voshell.
Dr. Daniel.
Dr. Hedges.
Dr. Goodwin.
Dr. Compton.
Dr. Royster.
Dr. Nelson.
Dr. Rea.
Dr. Neff.
Dr. Mulholland.
Dr. Page.
Dr. Smith.
Dr. Brown.
Dr. Bigger.
Dr. McCutchan.
Dr. Waddell.
Dr. Wiatt.
Dr. Wood.
Commodious and well-equipped quarters for the treatment of ambulant cases
are provided in the north pavilion of the hospital, and the service is conducted under
the direct personal supervision of members of the teaching staff of the Medical
Department. Clinics are held three times a week for general medical, surgical
and genito-urinary diseases, which are attended by students of the third
year; and twice weekly for the diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, attended
by students of the fourth year.
The character of the equipment of this department and its location in the hospital
make possible the use of most advanced methods in the diagnosis and treatment
of cases, and the systematic and thorough examination of each case is thus
emphasized at the very outset of the student's clinical experience.
An out-patient obstetrical service, and provision for attendance in the home
of certain cases of illness by the student, under the supervision of an instructor,
are a part of the organization of this department.
THE BLUE RIDGE SANATORIUM.
The Blue Ridge Sanatorium for the treatment of tuberculosis, which is owned
and controlled by the Virginia State Board of Health, lies within easy reach of
the Medical School. Under a plan of coöperation agreed upon by the State
Board of Health and the University, the Medical Director of the Sanatorium
teaches phthisiotherapy in the Medical School, and the 120 beds of the Sanatorium
afford excellent clinical material for first hand, practical experience for
internes, medical students and nurses of the University Medical School. Work
at the Sanatorium is part of the required course of the Medical School. This affiliation
of the Sanatorium and the Medical School offers an opportunity almost
ideal for the medical student to become thoroughly familiar with the diagnosis
and treatment of this most important disease.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HOSPITAL TRAINING SCHOOL
FOR NURSES.
A training school for nurses is conducted in connection with the hospital.
Full information regarding requirements for admission, and the course of instruction
may be obtained by addressing the Superintendent of Nurses.
| The University of Virginia record February 15, 1924 | |