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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Registrar and one other representative from the Urbana campus, to be appointed by the President. 3. Early in the second semester of 1943-1944 the designated Committee on Admissions shall report on its work and submit recommendations relative to future procedure. Colleges of Medicine and Dentistry Physical Examination and Health Certificate.—On January 27, 1940, the Board of Trustees, on recommendation of the University Senate, approved a physical examination and health certificate requirement for the College of Medicine. The University Senate now recommends and I concur that this be extended to the College of Dentistry and made a part of the requirements for admission to that division.

Dean Allen commented on these proposals. On motion of Dr. Meyer, these proposals were approved.

EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM IN MEDICAL EDUCATION (17) T h e University Senate recommends approval of the following preliminary outline of a proposed experimental program in medical education which will: 1. Integrate the science with the art of medicine, i.e., eliminate the existing artificial distinction between pre-clinical instruction by teaching both together. 2. Base most of the instruction on the living, as opposed to the dead and dissected organism, with the elimination of those phases of the present instruction in anatomy which do not contribute to an integrated understanding of the living person. 3. Integrate the instruction by planning the sequence and relations of courses according to the content of the course, and not according to the technics of specialized departments, whether clinical or laboratory. T h e proposed curriculum will differ from the present curriculum mainly in the organization and in the general plan of instruction. T h e Senate is making its recommendation to the Board of Trustees with the understanding that this experimental program will be inaugurated with a small group of students (approximately ten per cent of a class) with the restriction that after two years (or four years if additional time seems desirable) of trial, the experiment be studied by a committee to be appointed by the President of the University and the findings and recommendations of this committee be reported to the University Senate for further action.

Dean Allen commented on this program. On motion of Dr. Meyer, this program was approved in principle, subject to budgetary limitations.

PLANS A N D SPECIFICATIONS FOR MEN'S RESIDENCE HALL (18) T h e Board of Trustees on November 24, 1939 (Minutes, page 651) approved the release of $15,000 to cover the estimated cost of the preparation of plans and specifications for a Men's Residence Hall. As the Director of the Physical Plant Department explained to the Board at the time, this was purely an estimate, and an additional $5,000 will be necessary. H e requests, and I recommend, expenditure of $5,000 for this purpose. This does not require an appropriation from the general reserve and can be handled as a working cash fund, pending the receipt of funds from the insurance company which has made a loan for this project.

On motion of Mr. Jensen, this expenditure was authorized.

BIDS ON CONSTRUCTION OF RESIDENCE HALL FOR MEN (19) T h e Director of the Physical Plant Department reports that bids for the construction of the residence hall for men will be opened in his office on July 1,