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EXAMINATIONS.
The examinations are of two sorts; oral examinations (daily), and
written examinations (Intermediate and Final.)
The value of the daily examination or recitation on the subject of the
preceding lecture is very great. On the one hand students who would
not otherwise take advantage of their opportunities for instruction are
thereby stimulated to increased exertion. On the other the recitation
gives the Professor an opportunity of finding out difficulties which the
student may have encountered in the previous lecture, and of correcting
erroneous impressions which he may have formed.
The intermediate written examinations stimulate the student to frequent
reviews, and familiarize him with the form of the examinations
for graduation, and the best methods of preparing for them.
The examinations for graduation are rigid written examinations, in
which the answers to the questions must be full and comprehensive.
Besides these examinations, there is a general oral review at the very
close of the session on all the different branches on which the student
has graduated during either that session or some preceding one; this
is intended to test the permanent acquisition of such general knowledge
as every practitioner of medicine should possess. The Faculty
have introduced these oral reviews partly to prepare students more
thoroughly for the State Examinations in Virginia, and the other States
which hold such examinations, as well as for entrance into the Medical
Corps of the Army and Navy and the Marine Hospital service.
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