bacteriology, and histology. There is a library and a small collection of specimens, not all labeled.
Clinical facilities: The school has access to two hospitals, containing together 250 beds. The dispensary has a fair attendance.
Date of visit: March, 1909.
QUEBEC: Population, 70,000.
(8) Laval University Medical Department. Organized 1848. An organic part of Laval University.
Entrance requirement: Indefinite, depending on the student's prospective location. As most graduates locate in the province - French being the language of instruction — they must comply with the provincial requirement. The medical course covers five years.
Attendance: 92.
Teaching staff: 22.
Resources available for maintenance: Fees and an appropriation by the university.
Laboratory facilities: Instruction in chemistry and physics is provided by the university; in the medical building, recent, though not extensive, laboratory provision is made for anatomy, histology, bacteriology, and pathology. There is no experimental physiology or pharmacology, A library for students and a museum have been started lately. The buildings are admirably kept.
Clinical facilities: Clinical instruction in medicine, surgery, and pediatrics is given at the Charity Hospital (Hôtel Dieu), to the free wards of which the faculty serves as staff. The amount of material is limited in quantity; the staff rotates monthly. The hospital contains a clinical laboratory, in which instruction is given in connection with ward work. The fifth year, now required, and a proposed reorganization of staff and teaching arrangements promise to improve the instruction. Obstetrical opportunity is abundant.
The dispensary has a sufficient attendance.
Date of visit: October, 1909.
General Considerations
In the matter of medical schools, Canada reproduces the United States on a greatly reduced scale. Western University (London) is as bad as anything to be found on this side the line; Laval and Halifax Medical College are feeble; Winnipeg and Kingston represent a distinct effort toward higher ideals; McGill and Toronto are excellent. The eight schools of the Dominion thus belong to three different types, the best adding a fifth year to their advantages of superior equipment and instruction.
