Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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Cooper Medical College

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' ' gual T Department of Medicine igio The establishnu-nt of the I )epartiiK ' iit nf .Medicine is perhaps tlie most important step Stanford University has taken in recent years. No line of human achievement has made more wonderful advances in the past fifty years than have the biological sciences upon which Medicine is founded. For many years there has been a desire on the part of many inter- ested in the two institutions to form some sort of union Ijetween Cooper Medical College and Stanford University. Of the various plans proposed the one that finally prevailed was consummated in November of 1908 by the transfer of all the valuable properties and equipment of Cooper Medical College to Stanford University, and by the organization by the University Trustees of the Department of ] Iedicine of Leland Stanford Junior University. The Department of Medicine thus organized is an integral part of the University on an equal footing with other University departments, being as they are under the control of the Board of Trustees, the President and the Academic Council. Through the great liberality and self-sacrifice of Dr. Levi Cooper Lane, supplemented by gifts from other public-spirited citizens of San Francisco, Cooper !vledical College had acquired very valuable properties consisting of the College buildings and Lane Hospital in San Francisco, an exceptionally fine medical library and provision for a new library building. Now, as Stanford has for years made provision in some of the departments for the teaching of the courses on which IMedicine is founded, the L niversity already has splendidly equipped laboratories and libraries in Physiology, Histology, Embryology, Chemistry. Physics and Hygiene. With the laboratories at Stanford and the buildings at San Fran- cisco and the libraries in both places the new Department of Medicine has fortunately most substantial advantages for making its beginning in the coming academic year. The modern Medical School is a large and complex enterprise. It could not under any circumstances spring into complete stature in a single year. The plan that has been adopted at Stanford wisely provides for a progressive growth of the Department. The course in Medicine leading to the degree of M. D. is to extend through four years. During 1909-10 the courses of the First Year of the Medical Department proper will be given. During 1910-11 the courses of the Second Year will be added, and so on until 1912-13 and after, when the courses of all four years, or the full Medical course will be in operation. The laboratory courses will be given mainly at Stanford in departments now in existence, while the clinical, surgical and hos- pital work will be carried on in the buildings at San Francisco. In this way the work of the first three semesters of the Medical course will be done at Stanford while the last five semesters ' work will be completed at San Francisco. 22

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Stanford Quad 1910 The re(|iiirc ' nicnts for atlniission are at least ninety Imurs of col- legiate V(irk, which must inckule one year each of l)ioloo -, cheiiiistrv and ph ' sics. The I ' irst ' car Medical may count as the I ' ourth Year Uni -ersity work on the completion of which the degree A. B. will be conferred. The work of the First Year of the Medical course consists of physiology, histology, chemistry, embryology, neurology and human anatomv. Of this work the only subject still to be arranged for is human anatomy. But provision for this is already well advanced b - the appointment of a professor of anatomy and the ])lanning- for the immediate fitting and equipping of a building on Stanford grounds for the teaching of human anatomy by modern methods. The Faculty of the Medical Department thus far appointed con- sists only of those who are to give the work of the First Year, already members of the departments just enumerated, and a small nucleus of those who are in the future to carry on the clinical, surgical and hos- pital work in San Francisco. Professors of the various subjects will be appointed as the time approaches for the work of each subject to be taken up. This plan will give opportunity for wise and deliberate selection of eminent men for the important positions still unfilled. Thus is an enterprise of far-reaching importance launched, and those of ns who ha e the utmost faith in Stanford ideals, energy- and capacity for work look forward to the growth of a great Medical School which shall exert a powerful influence on the teaching and practice of Medicine on this coast and to the advance of research in the medical sciences. O. P. Jexkixs. 24