Entrance requirement: The M.D. degree.
Attendance: There is an average attendance of 90 students in winter, 50 in summer. Short courses, usually six weeks in length and of a practical nature, are given. Formerly, the so-called "general" ticket was most popular; now, specialties are in demand and the medical courses are gaining on the surgical.
Teaching staff: 156, of whom 38 are professors, 118 of other grade.
Resources available for maintenance: The school, long without productive resources, has recently received a gift of $1,600,000, which, after paying debt and providing needed extensions, will leave a productive endowment of perhaps $400,000.
Laboratory facilities: These are very meager. A single room is devoted to laboratory work; little or no research or experimental work is carried on.
Clinical facilities: The Postgraduate Hospital is of modern construction and is excellently conducted. It contains 225 beds, 75 per cent of which are free. The new building will add 170 beds and space for clinical and laboratory teaching. Other hospitals are also used.
There is a good dispensary, very largely attended.
Date of visit: January, 1910.
(3) New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital. Organized 1881.
Entrance requirement: The M.D. degree.
Attendance: 25 to 50 students are in attendance usually.
Teaching staff: 149, of whom 24 are professors, 125 of other grade.
Resources available for maintenance: Fees.
Laboratory facilities: There is a pathological laboratory for practical work.
Clinical facilities: Postgraduate instruction is offered in the Polyclinic Hospital (100 beds), in the dispensary, which is largely attended, and in a considerable number of other hospitals, with which members of the faculty are connected as staff officers. The instruction is practical in character.
Date of visit: December, 1909.
(4) Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital Postgraduate School. Established 1869. An independent institution.
Entrance requirement: The M.D. degree.
Attendance: There is an average attendance of 12 students. Courses range from one to six months or more in length. Students who attend at least three months are eligible to appointment as clinical assistants.
Teaching staff: 11.
