Some Of The Advantages Of The Union Of Medical School And University

Author : William H. Welch
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781396850875
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Some of the Advantages of the Union of Medical School and University written by William H. Welch and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Some of the Advantages of the Union of Medical School and University: An Address Delivered at Yale University, June 26th, 1888 If I mistake not the significance of the present occasion there are here in Yale University intelligent appreciation of the great purposes to be accomplished by promotion of the best medical education and a desire to render the medical department not less efficient than the other departments of this university. The present occasion seems an appropriate one to consider some of the relations of medical education to the university. In this country and in England medicine is taught chiefly in independent professional schools without any connection or with only a nominal connection with a university. An im portant distinction exists between the independent medical schools of the United States and those of Great Britain, in that our schools have the power of granting degrees, whereas medical degrees and licenses to practice medicine can be obtained in Great Britain only by passing examination at the universities or before the examining boards of certain corpora tions. The assumption by independent schools of medicine of the power of granting the doctor's degree, without any control from a university or from the State, is a main reason in this country for the lack of uniformity in medical educa tion, for the enormous number of medical schools beyond all necessities of the community, for the ease with which medical degrees can be obtained, and for the consequent degradation in the significance and the value of the degree of doctor of medicine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.