 | The University of Virginia record March 15, 1933 |  |
PRE-MEDICAL COURSES
The requirements given below are strictly minimum requirements. Pre-medical
students are advised to take more than 30 session-hours of college work, either
by spending an additional year in college or by taking 33 or 36 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 30 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
30 session-hours of college work should be in accordance with the following
schedule:
Required Subjects
| 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, Ethics,
Logic, Mathematics, Latin, Greek, Italian, Spanish, 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 6 session-hour course
consisting of 3 hours lecture and 6 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 4 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 15, 1933 | |