SUNY Downstate Medical Center - Iatros Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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Long Island College Hospital in 1897 ,...a.,mM av. kb, f Hoagland Laboratory Polhemus Memorial Clinic

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George M. Sternberg, M .D. this was increased to four years, as was the medical school curriculum. In the same year the Polhemus Memorial Building opened on the corner of Amity and Henry Streets. It included a dispensary, admin- istrative offices, lecture halls and laboratories. In 1905 the old Perry Mansion was torn down and a new Long Island College Hospital built on the same site. In 1910 the roof fell in. This was the year of the Flexner Report, a full scale investigation and evaluation of medical education in the United States and Canadaf' The study was conducted by Abraham Flexner of the Carnegie Foundation for the American Medical Association. Its sharp criti- cism forced many poor medical schools to close. This included about half of those then in existence. Long Island College hospital received a Class B rating because it had no full-time teachers in labora- tory subjects, no pathology museum, no student library, inadequate clinical laboratories and no laboratory teaching in physiology and pharmacology. These defects were remedied and in 1914 the school was rated Class A. Other changes followed. In 1914 a Department of Tropical Medicine was formed. It was eliminated in 1928. In 1917 Long Island College Hospital began a thirteen year association with Columbia University. Dr. Nicholas M. Butler, President of Columbia, arranged for the appointment of James Egbert, Director of University Extension Teaching fat Columbiaj to the presidency of Long Island College Hospital. Egbert started a two year premedical course run by Columbia, given at Long Island Col- lege Hospital. This course or its equivalent became a requirement for medical school admission. It was the long term scheme of Columbia University to Walter Reed, M.D. 23

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Dissecting Laboratory Amphitheatre