Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1897-1898 [PAGE 153]

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HOSPITAL AND INSTRUCTION

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HOSPITAL FACILITIES Members of the faculty and other friends of the College have recently purchased the adjoining building of the PostGraduate Medical School and converted it into a hospital of 125 beds. It is a large, handsome structure, 50x100 feet, five stories high, of modern construction, and elegantly furnished. It is connected with the college amphitheater by a corridor and its clinical resources are thus made easily available for the instruction of students. Directly opposite the College is Cook County Hospital, the only free hospital in Chicago. It contains almost a thousand patients, and supplies a quantity and variety of disease and injury which no private institution can command. In the amphitheater of the hospital much of the clinical instruction of the college is given. In addition to the foregoing resources members of the faculty are connected with various other hospitals of the city and freely draw upon them for the benefit of students METHOD OF INSTRUCTION During the first two years the time of the students is about equally divided between laboratory and didactic work. The plan of instruction in the College contemplates the freest use of laboratory teaching. Wherever possible practical laboratory work is made to supplement didactic teaching. Students are taught not only by prepared specimens, but they are required to prepare their own specimens from the original material, and are thus made familiar with technical methods, so that they become able independently to carry a technical investigation through all of its stages. During the junior and senior years the time is about equally divided between clinical and didactic work, with, perhaps, a preponderance of clinical instruction in the senior year. This clinical instruction is carried on, as far as possible, with the student at the patient's side. Attendance upon clinics is required in the same way as upon lectures, and the students are graded upon, and given credit for, their work in the