materia medica and therapeutics are offered on condition that students following them shall receive the degree of Doctor of Medicine in Homeopathy.
Entrance requirement: Two years of college work, specifically including the fundamental sciences and a modern language.
Attendance: 174, 83 per cent from Minnesota
Teaching staff: 49 professors and 71 of other grade,—total, 120.
Resources available for maintenance: State appropriations. The budget calls for $71,336. The income from fees is $16,546.
Laboratory facilities: Excellent, exceedingly attractive, and well organized laboratories are provided for all the scientific branches. The State Laboratory of Public Health is practically part of the school plant. The instruction is in charge of full-time teachers, generously supplied with books, apparatus, and material.
Clinical facilities: The school has hitherto relied on the municipal hospitals and unpaid clinical teachers, with the usual results. Teaching opportunities were both limitecl in extent and precarious in character. These institutions are in fact not organized, equipped, or conducted with educational requirements in mind. An appropriation has now been made to build a teaching hospital; and.a small temporary hospital has been started. Simultaneously, the clinical teaching. has been reorganized by placing the chiefs in medicine and surgery respectively on salaries that command the interest and effort of active teachers. The same policy must be applied generally throughout the clinical department.
The dispensary, well attended and long loosely conducted, has recently been reconstructed along the same lines.
Date of visit: May, 1909.
General Considerations
Minnesota is perhaps the first state in the Union that may fairly be considered to have solved the most perplexing problems connected with medical education and practice except as to osteopathy. It has indeed still to realize its plans for an adequate clinical establishment of modern character; but there is little doubt that this is only a question of time,—and of a short time, at that. Meanwhile medical education has, with the active coöperation of the state board, been concentrated in the hands of the university, fortunately situated in the heart of the largest community of the state; the state has got rid of rival schools, regular and sectarian, the latter by a perfectly fair provision for separate instruction in sectarian dogmas for any student who is willing to accept a diploma qualified so as to mark that fact. Since all else—anatomy, physiology, surgery—are common to and the same for all "schools" of medicine, there is one standard of admission to the department, one quality of instruction, one examination for the degree for all alike. Finally, the educational preliminary qualification of
