Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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' ith the entrance rei|uirenu ' nt set of three years of University work the e lical work of Stanford bci an on a high plane. In 1909 Prof. . . W. Meyer was apjiointed Professor of Anatomy, Prof. Hans Zinsser of Bacteriology. Prof. A. C. Crawford of Pharmacology. ' rhe - were furnished with new laboratories in the Museimi buildings and together with the existing deparlinents ni Physiology and llis- loJogw Chemistry, and Zoology began the teaching of the first year and a half of Medicine at the L ' niversity. The last two and a half years of the Aledical curriculum are given in San Francisco, where the students have the advantage of academic professors not only in the laboratory sciences but also in the clinics. This is the most important advance made by Stanford in its medical teaching. It is one of the few Medical schools in this country wdiere the control ot the majority of the clinical work is in the hands of paid teachers with whom are associated so-called Clinical Professors, that is to say, men in practice who also teach. Few Medical Schools offer to the student the opportunity for close association with patients and with teachers that can be obtained at Stanford. The outpatient clinics have about 60.000 visits per year and the Lane Hospital has accommodations for 180 beds. Of these about half are clinical and used for teaching and the other half are in private rooms. The Lane Hospital Training School for Nurses is favorably known, and about eighty pupil nurses are in attendance. The beautiful new building of the Lane Medical Library has recently been constructed imme- diateh- across the street and its splendid library of about 39,000 volumes, the largest medical library belonging to a university in this country, is immediately available for students. During the year 1912-13 a complete re-arrangement of the Clinical and Laboratory Building, including Lane Hall, has been made, so that it is now well adapted to modern Medical teaching. The Medical and Surgical services at the San Francisco Hospital, the new building of which is practically ready for occupancy, are also of great teaching value. All in all, the Stanford L ' niversity Medical Department can be said to offer unusual clinical advantages, and library and laboratory facili- ties to its students, and it is hoped that it will soon develop into one of the strongest departniaits of the L niversity. Ray Lyman Wilbur. 17

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