University of North Dakota - Dacotah Yearbook (Grand Forks, ND)

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Medical College N 1887, the Legislature of North Dakota appropriated $1,000 for the sup- 1 port of the Medical College. The Trustees of the University felt that it was impossible to organize a school 011 so meagre financial basis, but decided to appoint a Dean for the Medical School and if possible inaugurate some of the Medical work Further consideration of the problems involved led to the conclusion that it would be impossible to make a beginning with so inadequate an appropriation. This was the end of the Medical College of the State Univer- sity until 1905, when the Trustees decided that the time had arrived for the organization of a Medical College which should Offer the first two years of the Medical College curriculum. There is good reason for offering so much of the Medical work as that contained in the flrst and second years, because the sub jeet matter is distinctively laboratory and largely provided for in the work of the various departments of the College of Liberal Arts XVith keen appreciation of the inadequacy of clinical facilities at Grand Forks. making advanced professional work during the last two years of the College course impossible, and with the knowledge that the equipment of the various scientilie departments of the institution would permit thorough work in the first and second years of the Medical curriculum, the management of the institution was charged with the problem of so adjusting the institutional work that her legitimate equipment might be utilized for training prospective practi- tioners of medicine, and not do violence to the ethical and scientitic standards which have been developed in the Medical Schools of America. The solution of this problem found expression in the formation of a four years! course, two of which are strictly academic, and two professional, leading to the B. A. degree. Upon the completion of this course the University confers the B. A. degree and gives a certiheate stating that the two years of the Media cal course have been completed. This certificate may be presented by the holder for admission to the junior year Of the Medical Colleges with which the Univer- sit3 is articulated Over flfty men and women, desiring to do Medical College work, have been compelled to leave their own co1111110nwealth hitherto in order to secure the first and second years even of Medical Training. If it were possible to offer them as thorough and complete work in the first and second years as they could secure away from home, and save from $200 to $500 apiece each year, it was not only proper, but it was imperative, that the University organize so much of the Medir cal College work as her equipment would justify her in undertaking. The Medical College offers instruction in those studies which legitimately belong to the first and second 3ears of technical Medical Schools. The four

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