 | The University of Virginia record March 1, 1927 |  |
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, 1927 | |