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MEDICAL EDUCATION
fairly well stocked laboratory for pathology, bacteriology, and histology, a fair equipment for experimental physiology, and an ordinary chemical laboratory. There is no library accessible to students, no museum, and no pharmacological laboratory.
Clinical facilities: The school has recently built a hospital, in which there are 100 ward beds, not free, but available for clinical use. It is several miles distant. The usual supplementary clinics are held in other places also. A few rooms at the hospital are set aside for a dispensary; the attendance is small.
Date of visit: March, 1909.
(3) Howard University Medical College. Organized 1869. An integral part of Howard University.
Entrance requirement: A high school course or its equivalent.
Attendance: 205, most of whom are working their way through. Practically all the students are colored.
Teaching staff: 52, 22 being professors, 30 of other grade.
Resources available for maintenance: The school budget calls for $40,000, of which $26,000 are supplied by student fees, most of the remainder by government appropriation. Though the school has been changed from a night to a day school, the fees raised from $80 to $100, and the admission requirements stiffened, the attendance has nevertheless increased.
Laboratory facilities: The laboratory equipment includes anatomy, pathology, histology, bacteriology, and chemistry. There is no organized museum, though the school possesses a number of specimens, normal and pathological, charts, models, etc.
Clinical facilities: Clinical facilities are provided in the new, thoroughly modern, and adequate government hospital of 278 free beds, with its dispensary, closely identified with the medical school. A pavilion for contagious diseases alone is lacking.
Date of visit: January, 1910.
(4) Army Medical School. Organized 1822. Offers laboratory courses, covering eight months, to candidates who have passed their preliminary examinations as army surgeons.
Attendance: 57.
Teaching staff: 10 instructors, detached from the army for the purpose.
Laboratory facilities: Excellent teaching and working laboratories in cramped quarters are provided in the building occupied by the great library and museum of the Surgeon-General's office.
Date of visit: January, 1910.
