Attendance: 207.
Teaching staff: 132, 32 being professors, 100 of other grade.
Resources available for maintenance: The department is liberally supported. Its budget (New York city) calls for $209,888; income from fees, $24,410; Ithaca: budget, $32,840; income from fees is negligible.
Laboratory facilities: The school laboratories in New York are, in general, of modern equipment and organization, anatomy and chemistry being, however, less elaborately developed than physiology and pathology. The professor of anatomy is a practising surgeon. Otherwise the laboratories are in charge of full-time teachers, properly assisted, devoting themselves unreservedly to teaching and research. Despite geographical separation from the university at Ithaca, the department is animated by university ideals: in part, this is ascribable to actual intercourse, in part, to the selection of teachers devoted to science, whom the university has so generously supported that they have reproduced the university spirit. At Ithaca—the seat of Cornell University—the first year's instruction is also offered: the departments of anatomy and physiology as there organized and conducted are thoroughly admirable, with their own additional teaching staff, supported by separate funds.
Clinical facilities: The major part of the clinical instruction is given at the Bellevue Hospital, directly opposite the college, in which the school enjoys the same privileges as Columbia and New York Universities. The service is good in point of extent; limitations which render it unsatisfactory will be discussed below. Supplementary hospitals increase the amount of available material, but always under serious pedagogic restrictions. Intimate correlation of laboratories and clinic is thus not feasible.
A thoroughly satisfactory dispensary, well conducted, occupies part of the school building.
Date of visit: February, 1910.
(6) University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College. Formed in 1898 by merger of University Medical College (established 1841) and Bellevue Hospital Medical College (established 1861). An integral part of New York University.
Entrance requirement: The Regents' Medical Student Certificate, representing a four year high school education.
Attendance: 408, 74 per cent from New York state.
Teaching staff: 164, 37 being professors, 127 of other grade.
Resources available for maintenance: The school is mainly dependent on fees, amount ing to $76,115; these are supplemented by gifts and income from endowment amounting to about $11,000.
