 | The University of Virginia record March 1, 1926 |  |
PRE-MEDICAL COURSES
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 has 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.
All the pre-medical courses are offered in the Summer Quarter.
| The University of Virginia record March 1, 1926 | |