Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $26,250. This sum, adequate to provide fair laboratory instruction, is not devoted to education alone. The medical department, although organically part of the university, is under contract to wipe out with its fees the cost of the building it occupies, and meanwhile it pays the university interest at six per cent on the unpaid balance.
Laboratory facilities: The school possesses satisfactory laboratories for pathology, bacteriology, and histology, and an energetic instructor has charge of them. A creditable beginning has been made in experimental physiology. Chemistry is well provided by the university. Anatomy is bad—the work being conducted on antiquated lines in a foul dissecting-room. There is a useful museum and a fair library.
Clinical facilities: The school has converted the basement of its own building into a ward of 35 beds; and has access to the City Hospital (65 beds) besides. The amount of material thus available is too restricted.
There is a dispensary with a fair attendance.
Date of visit : January, 1909.
(8) Universities of Nashville and Tennessee Medical Department. A combination under limited contract, formed in 1909, expiring 1912. One of the two institutions represented is the State University of Tennessee (Knoxville), the other the University of Nashville,—a university in name only.
Entrance requirement: Less than high school graduation.
Attendance: 207.
Teaching staff: 55, of whom 26 are professors, 29 of other grade. The distribution of chairs is significant: there are four professors of medicine, four professors of surgery (not including gynecology), and one whole-time teacher.
Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $26,000 (estimated), and subscriptions from the two universities, amounting to $8100 in cash. Of the two universities, the University of Tennessee is supported by legislative appropriation; the University of Nashville has an endowment of $60,000, yielding $3600 annually.
Laboratory facilities: These comprise a poor laboratory for elementary chemistry, an outfit, in part new, for bacteriology, pathology, histology, and physiology, and a poorly kept dissecting-room. There is a small museum.
Clinical facilities: The building formerly used by the medical department of the University of Tennessee has been converted into a hospital with a capacity of 70 beds. In view of the brief period that has elapsed since the merger, this improvement in clinical resources is most commendable, for the hospital is completely controlled by the school. The school has access to the City Hospital besides.
