Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1898-1899 [PAGE 160]

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THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

side work and receives instruction in medical and surgical specialties. More advanced work along the same lines is continued in the senior year. Practice of medicine, surgery, and obstetrics are gone over again, this time in lecture courses and with greater minuteness of detail and profuseness of illustration. The various special departments of medicine and surgery are presented with like thoroughness, and a large part of the student's time is given to clinical study. 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 School 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 clinical courses just as they are for the work in the didactic and laboratory courses. During the winter sessions the students of the junior and senior years are divided into classes for dispensary work, and these classes have instruction in rotation in the various departments of practical medicine. During the spring term the dispensary clinics are thrown open to students of all classes.