Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1898-1899 [PAGE 162]

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THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

modation of the various specialties in medicine and surgery. During the past five years there have been treated in these rooms an average of twenty thousand patients each year. HOSPITAL FACILITIES Members of the faculty and other friends of the School 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 completely 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 School is Cook County Hospital, the only free hospital in Chicago. It contains almost a thousand patients, and supplies a quantity and variety of clinical material which no private institution can command. In the amphitheater of the hospital much of the clinical instruction of the School 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. An entire floor of this hospital is reserved as a ward for patients who are maintained in hospital by the School for the instruction exclusively of its students. It is designed to increase this hospital facility as necessity indicates. REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION First, a certificate of good moral character by two reputable physicians. Second, satisfactory deportment during attendance at college. Third, satisfactory evidence that the candidate is twentyone years of age. Fourth, proof that the candidate has attended at least four full courses of instruction in four separate years, the last of which shall have been in this institution.