Laboratory facilities: The laboratories are developed unevenly, as the resources of the school are not equal to uniform promotion of all the medical sciences. Pathology is excellently organized and equipped both for teaching and research; in other branches good teaching facilities rather than any considerable opportunity for investigation have been aimed at. The departments of pathology, physiology, pharmacology, and chemistry are in charge of full-time teachers. Anatomy, including histology and embryology, has just been reorganized on the same basis. Available laboratory accommodations are being largely increased by an addition now in process of erection.
Clinical facilities. The major part of the clinical instruction is given at Bellevue Hospital, opposite the college, in which the school enjoys the same privileges as Cornell and Columbia. The service is good in point of extent. Limitations which make it unsatisfactory will be discussed below. Supplementary hospitals increase the amount of available material, but always under serious pedagogic restrictions. Intimate correlation of laboratories and clinic within the hospital is thus not feasible.
A thoroughly satisfactory dispensary, well conducted, occupies part of the school building.
Date of visit : November, 1909.
(7) Fordham University School of Medicine. Organized 1905. An organic part of Fordham University.
Entrance requirement: Something over a four-year high school education.
Attendance: 42, 83 per cent from New York state. Teaching staff: 72, of whom 32 are professors, 40 of other grade. Two instructors give their entire time to the medical school. Chemistry and physiology are taught in the university by full-time teachers.
Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $7330 (estimated 1908-9), supplemented by appropriations amounting to several thousand dollars annually from the general funds of the university.
Laboratory facilities: Chemistry and physiology are explained above. The equipment in pathology, bacteriology, and histology is adequate for the routine instruction of the small student body. Anatomy is limited to dissection. There is a library with current scientific journals.
Clinical facilities: Much of the clinical work of the school is carried on at Fordham Hospital, a municipal institution close by; the school has no voice in making its staff appointments. Supplementary opportunities are obtained at other institutions,—scattered, as is generally the case, with the medical schools of the city. The amount of material available is adequate, but it cannot be organized or controlled.
