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SESSIONS AND COURSE OF STUDY IN THE
DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE.
Attention is called to the fact that the course has been extended
to four years, and provision has been made for the erection
and equipment of a Hospital, with extension of clinical
instruction in connection therewith.
The work of each of the four years of the course in Medicine continues
through the full nine months of the University session, beginning
on the fifteenth day of September and closing on the Saturday
immediately preceding the fifteenth day of the following June. The
studies included are arranged as follows:
During the first session: Chemistry (with an introductory
course upon the principles of Chemical Physics); Biology (Comparative
Anatomy and Normal Histology); and Descriptive
Anatomy.
During the second session: Physiology; Bacteriology; General
Pathology; Regional Anatomy; and Hygiene.
During the third session: Embryology; Obstetrics; Practice of
Medicine; Surgery; Special Pathology and Clinical Diagnosis;
and Materia Medica.
During the fourth session: Practice of Medicine; Therapeutics;
Clinical Surgery; Dermatology; Diseases of the Eye and Ear;
Gynecology and Medical Jurisprudence.
An examination of this system will show that the work of the first
year is given to those sciences which are fundamental to the entire
work of the remaining part of the course; that of the second year
includes the study of those sciences, more distinctively medical, which
are based upon the work of the previous year, while they in turn
underlie the more strictly professional subjects of study; these latter
are begun in the second year, while the third and fourth years are
devoted wholly to them. The larger part of the work of the first year
is accompanied by practical work in the laboratory and the dissecting-room;
the same is true in great measure of the work of the second
year, while in the third, and especially the fourth year, the time of
the student is devoted largely to practical clinical instruction. The
facilities afforded by the University for such work will be more fully
described in the statements which follow concerning the different
subjects included in the course.
Methods of Instruction.—The instruction is given by systematic
lectures and daily oral examinations, with associated practical work
in Anatomy, Physics and Chemistry, Histology, Bacteriology, Pathology,
and Obstetrics. The daily oral examinations on the subjects of
the previous lectures are of great value in stimulating the student to
regular and systematic habits of study, and furnishing the professor
an opportunity of discovering and removing difficulties met with by
the student.
Relations of the Student in the Second and Succeeding Years.—
Students who pass a satisfactory examination on the subjects studied
during the first session are not required to attend the lectures or stand
the examinations on these subjects the second year; but if a student
fail to pass a satisfactory examination at the regular time on one or
more of the subjects included in the first year's course, he will be permitted
to take such subject or subjects over during the second year,
without the payment of any additional fee. Like rules apply to the
passage of the student from the second to the third, and from the
third to the fourth session. Provided, however, that no student whose
failure to pass a satisfactory examination at the regular time shall
extend to all the subjects of a given year will be permitted to go on to
the work of the succeeding year; he will be required to confine himself
to a repetition of the work of the year on which he has failed—
and no student will be allowed to undertake the work of the third or
fourth year until he has completed that of the first, save by special
consent of the Medical Faculty. Students who have taken the degree
of Bachelor of Arts in the University of Virginia, on a scheme including
such medical subjects as, in connection with other subjects associated
therewith, shall be approved by the Medical Faculty, may be
admitted to the studies of the second year. Students entering the
Medical Department of this University from other medical schools are
considered students of the first year until they have passed the examinations
hereafter mentioned.
Certificates of Attendance.—No one will receive a certificate as a
regular student of the Department of Medicine in this University
unless he has attended the whole regular course of one or more of the
four years.
Requirements for Graduation.—No student is permitted to graduate
from the University of Virginia with the degree of Doctor of Medicine
till he shall have attended the regular course of not less than four
years in this institution, and passed a satisfactory examination on all
the subjects included in the Medical course, unless, in lieu of either
the first or second year's study here, he shall have attended one course
of lectures of not less than seven months, or two courses of less than
seven months each, in some other reputable medical school, in which
case he may apply for graduation at the end of his third or second
session in this institution; but in order to obtain the degree he must
pass a satisfactory examination at this University on all the subjects
heretofore mentioned as included in the medical course. A student
who is already a graduate in Medicine of some other reputable medical
school may be received as a student in this University of the fourth
year.
The Graduating Examinations are in writing (accompanied in some
subjects by individual practical examinations) and of a rigorous character.
Two sets of these are held each year—one near the close of the
beginning of the next session. To the latter are admitted—
(a) Students of the previous session who from illness or other cause
approved by the Faculty were unable to present themselves for examination.
These may be examined on any part of the course, and will
not be required to matriculate anew.
(b) Students who at the close of the preceding session have passed satisfactory
examinations on at least one of the studies pursued during
that session, and have attained on one or more of the remaining subjects
such a grade (but little lower than that required for graduation)
as the Faculty may approve. This slightly lower grade must have
been reached on the particular subject or subjects on which the student
presents himself for re-examination.
(c) Students who present certificates of attendance on one or two seven-months'
courses or their equivalent at some other reputable medical
school.
Students falling under classes (b) and (c), after first matriculating and
then passing the Fall examinations on the studies of the preceding
one or two sessions, may proceed to the work of the second year, or
to that of the third year, without attending the lectures on or passing
further examinations in, the studies of the preceding session or
sessions, except the general examination which immediately precedes
graduation.
☞These Fall examinations begin within one week from the opening of the
session, and are to be completed not later than the first of October.
Written notice of intention to stand these examinations must be filed
with the Dean of the Medical Faculty on or before the eighteenth of
September
No special examination will be given in the Department of Medicine
except under extraordinary circumstances, to be carefully weighed by
the Medical Faculty.
Any professor of the Medical Department may exclude from his
examination any student whose irregularity of attendance or neglect
of practical work warrants, in the professor's judgment, such exclusion.
A General Examination is held each year prior to graduation (at
the close of the session) on all the different branches on which the
candidate for graduation has passed 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.
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