Medical Education in the United States and Canada; A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...relieves the Long Island College Hospital of certain subjects; the rest are omitted, for the fees that might furnish them are distributed among well-to-do clinical teachers. Bowdoin, with a total available income of SI 5,230, appropriates S200 for the maintenance of the bacteriological laboratory, S50 for the phvsiological laboratory, S200 for chemistry, and $200 for books, as against S12,225 for salaries to men, not one of whom gives his whole time to medical education. At Halifax, the fee income is some $5000 a year and the government makes an appropriation of S1200,--a total of S6200. The faculty apportions this sum as follows: three-fourths of the fees are divided among the teachers; one-fourth of the fees plus the government subsidy must carry all other expense,--heat, light, janitor service, laboratory maintenance: the disgraceful condition of the premises follows as a matter of course. The Hahnemann of Philadelphia, with estimated receipts of 318,500, distributes Sll,000 among teaching practitioners and spends perhaps S1500 on equipment and S500 for laboratory material. Advertising and commencement exercises--the latter only another form of advertising--often cost these institutions more than their laboratories. One large eastern institution expends S4700 on publicity, as against S3500 on its laboratories; another--a New York school, this--S1500 on publicity, S1100 on laboratories; another, S2100 on advertising, S1 160 on laboratories; another--this time in the south--S1000 on advertising, S500 on laboratories, "including repairs."1 The conclusion, then, is irresistible that these schools, far from being the benevolent enterprises that they are alleged to be, still "pay," both directly and indirectly; nor can a...