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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.