Since then it has been revolutionized: good teaching laboratories in all necessary branches, with increased provision for research, have been equipped and put in charge of enthusiastic teachers of modern training and ideals. The main present lack is a suitable building and an adequate medical library.
Clinical facilities: The University Hospital of 100 beds (80 of them ward beds) is the laboratory of the clinical teachers.[1] Its relation to the medical school and its organization for teaching purposes leave nothing to be desired. Though the material has not yet reached proper proportions, it is increasing and is skilfully and effectively used to train the student body in the technique and methods of scientific medicine. The surgical side is in this respect more highly organized than the medical.
There is a small dispensary.
Date of visit: February, 1909.
RICHMOND: Population, 111,078.
(2) Medical College of Virginia. Organized 1838.
Entrance requirement: Less than a four-year high school education. The registration office is most systematically conducted.
Attendance: 206.
Teaching staff: 61, of whom 16 are professors, 45 of other grade. There are no teachers giving their entire time to medical instruction.
Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $22,490, and an annual state appropriation of $5000.
Laboratory facilities: The school occupies an imposing building with ordinary laboratories for pathology, histology, bacteriology, physiology, and chemistry. The dissecting-room is in poor condition. There is a fair museum and an attractive library with some recent books, in charge of a librarian.
Clinical facilities: These are inadequate. Close by is the Memorial Hospital, with about 40 beds available for teaching. Supplementary facilities are enjoyed in the City Hospital and elsewhere.
The dispensary occupies an excellent suite of rooms and has a fair attendance.
Date of visit: February, 1909.
(3) University College of Medicine. Organized 1893. An independent institution.
Entrance requirement: Less than a four-year high school education.
Attendance: 121, 63 per cent from Virginia.
- ↑ A recent gift of $50,000 is now available for he extension of the hospital.
