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PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

FIELDS' FOR A G R I C U L T U R A L EXPERIMENTATION.

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(3) A list of agronomy experiment fields which have been donated to the University for the purpose of soil experimentation.

On the recommendation of President James and on motion of Mrs. Henrotin, it was voted to accept these fields and to authorize the Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station to conduct experiments upon them.

C U R R I C U L U M OF T H E COLLEGE OF M E D I C I N E .

(4) A report of the. Committee on Curriculum of the College of Medicine. In November, 1913, I appointed a committee of the faculty of the College of Medicine to draft a curriculum for the College of Medicine. This committee made its report, after long deliberation and careful consideration, which was approved by the Medical Faculty after full discussion, with certain amendments. I am submitting the amended report with a recommendation that it be approved.

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON CURRICULUM OF THE COLLEGE OF

MEDICINE. Dr. Edmund. Janes James, President, University of Illinois,, Uroana3 III. SIR: The Committee on Curriculum appointed by you in November last has the honor to submit the following report: » The committee held its first meeting on November 21, 1913, and since then has held weekly meetings (except during the holidays). After extended discussion, the following plan was decided upon: First—That twelve of the leading and representative medical colleges in the United States be selected for purposes of extended analysis. Those selected were: Johns Hopkins. University of Pennsylvania. Columbia. Western Reserve. Cornell. University of Michigan. University of Minnesota. Rush Medical College. Harvard. Northwestern University. Leland Stanford. University of Wisconsin. Second—In addition to the above, the model curriculum of the Council on Medical Education of the A. M. A. was selected as a further basis for comparison. For the purpose of uniformity of tabulation, it was decided to make the analysis of the twelve above mentioned curricula in accordance with the outline used in the model curriculum of the American Medical Association. Third—The twelve colleges' were divided equally among the six members of the committee, and each member was instructed to prepare an analysis of the two institutions assigned to him, and to report at the next meeting. Your committee respectfully calls attention to the fact that the recommendations made below are in no sense either untried or lacking in adequate endorsement. On the contrary, they represent, as nearly as your committee is able to .iudge, the consensus of practice in the institutions named, modified by the suggestions of the model curriculum. The Carnegie educational reports have also been carefully considered. In the tabulation of the various schools and in the curriculum suggested by your committee it is assumed that the collegiate year consists of thirty-two net weeks of study. I. Recommended that all the work of the general curriculum be obligatory, and that the total number of hours required shall be approximately four thousand. II. Recommended that these hours be distributed as follows:

Hours. Bacteriology 160 Pathology (independent of Autopsies)* 256 Materia Medica, Toxicology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics 256 Anatomy 700 Physiology and Chemistry inclusive * 528 Medicine, including Neurology, Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Roentgenography. . 900 Neurology and Psychiatry 128 hours, 24 to be devoted to Psychiatry. Pediatrics 128 Roentgenography 4 Obstetrics and Gynecology, exclusive of Maternity work* 300 Obstetrics 200 Gynecology , 100 Twelve cases in Maternity work to be considered as a minimum. Surgery and Surgical specialties not including Eye, Ear, Nose and T h r o a t . . . . 600 Dermatology 90 Ophthalmology 60 Ear, Nose4 Throat . 60 Hygiene and Medical Jurisprudence 100 Total 4,010 The above hours include didactic, laboratory, clinical and dispensary hours, i. e., all work given in the branches of study in question. * It will be noted that the four thousand ten hours do not include either obstetric cases or autopsies, since the number of these cannot be ascertained with accuracy. This is in accord with the practise in most institutions.