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be discussed in connection with the general state situation. It is sufficient to say here that its abundant material is in a high degree valuable, though serious limitations upon its use exist. Rush holds 21 staff appointments.
Dispensary facilities are entirely adequate.
Date of visit: April, 1909.
(2) Northwestern University Medical Department. Organized 1859, it has borne its present title since 1891. An integral part of the university.
Entrance requirement: One year of college work, hitherto loosely enforced.
Teaching staff: 54 professors and 89 of other grade: 148 in all, ten of whom devote their entire time to the school.
Resources available for maintenance: Except for two professorships, endowed to the extent of $60,700, the department lives on and pays for plant addition out of its fees now amounting to $89,076.
Laboratory facilities: The school has the necessary laboratories, well equipped for routine work; more could be done but that the full-time teachers lack the necessary assistants.
Clinical facilities: These are provided by Mercy Hospital, Wesley Hospital, the Cook County Hospital, and other institutions. The Wesley Hospital, the staff of which comes wholly from the faculty of this school,[1] contains 80 free beds. It is, however, not primarily a teaching hospital, though it might apparently be reorganized as such with much advantage both to itself and to the medical school. The Cook County Hospital will be discussed below; Northwestern holds 12 staff appointments there. In general, material is abundant in amount and variety; the defects of the situation arise from the lack of financial resources and pedagogical control.
Dispensary requirements are amply met.
Dates of visits: April, 1909; December, 1909.
(3) College of Physicians and Surgeons. Organized in 1882; since 1896 nominally the medical department of the University of Illinois, with which, however, only a contractual relation exists.
Entrance requirement: A high school education or its equivalent, the latter hitherto very loosely interpreted, though somewhat stricter action has been enforced this year. The policy of the institution had been to accept students who satisfied the Illinois law as administered by the present state board; the requirement has, therefore, been more or less nominal. Advanced standing has been accorded to students from decidedly inferior schools, some of them among the worst institutions
- ↑ Students from the American Medical Missionary College attend certain clinics.
