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

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studies which far exceed all others in time and attention, are Anatomy, Biology, Chemistry, and Physiology. These subjects are taught by the laboratory method, and are supported by laboratories which are well lighted and ventilated. Provi- sion is made in separate laboratories for dissection When there are mixed classes, i and an abundance of material is supplied through the operation of the State Anatomical Law, providing: ttThat all unclaimed bodies of patients at County and State institutions be turned over to the Medical College of the University i i of North Dakota?y In addition to liberal provisions for dissection, there are ample collections of skeletons, portions of skeletons, excellent models, nianikins, and charts. The work in Physiology is presented according to the most modern methods, and arrangements are made for laboratory work, in conjunction with careful and extensive study of the best modern texts upon Physiology. In Chemistry, Physics, Bacteriology, Histology, Pathology, and Hygiene there are well equipped laboratories, and thorough courses of instruction are offered in each subject. In addition to the above courses, work of a preparatory character is given in Surgery, Morbid Anatomy, and Medicine. The last State Legislature established a Public Health Laboratory at the University. This will offer rare opportunities to our students of Bacteriology and Pathology, by reason of the material and problems which will be dealt with in this State Laboratory. The action of the University in establishing her Medical College is receiving very cordial commendation from the members of the medical profession through- out the state, and fronithe leaders in educational work. A suggestion of how it impresses those of liberal training and wide experience outside of the state may be gathered from the following quotation, which was taken from the letter of the Secretary of the Board of Medical Examiners of one of the largest states in the Union, who wrote as follows: ilI am sure that this Tioardi will feel that any stud- ent that has had his first two years in your College will have had better training than the average of medical colleges give. I want to congratulate the citizens of your state for their fairness in affording their young people an opportunity to ob- tain a part of their medical education at home. Many of the states discriminate against our profession. They educate lawyers, pharmacists, teachers, engineers, cheese and butter makers, and farmers, but afford no means for our young people ' to get even a start in the profession of medicine. In order to merit the generous approval of those who have expressed them- selves regarding the opening of the Medical College at this institution, it is the desire and the determination of those in charge to give a thorough and exacting course in each subject, and it will be the constant endeavor of each instructor in the Medical School to impress every student matriculated in the Medical College with the feeling that the spirit and purpose of the work offered then was fittingly expressed by Dr. H. Newcll Martin, who was professor of Biology in the Johns Hopkins University, and of Physiology in the Medical Faculty of the same insti- tution, and the father of human Physiology in America. Dr. Martin said at the inauguration of the Biological work at Johns Hopkins University: NLet us, then, each work loyally, earnestly, truthfully, so that when the time comes, as it Will 31

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Views in Medical Department

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come sooner or later, in one way or another, to each of us, to depart hence, we may carry with us a good conscience, and be able to say that in our line no slip- shod piece of work ever left the laboratory; that no error we know Of was persisted in; that our only desire was to know the truth, Let us leave a record which, if it perchance contain the history Of no great feat in the memory of which our suc- cessors will glory, will at least contain not one jot or one tittle of which they can be ashamed? Grand Forks, N. D., Jan. 12th, 1906. This is to certify that at the regular quarterly meeting of the North Dakota State Board of Medical Examiners, held in the city of Fargo, january 11, 1906, the Entrance Standard and scope of the first two years work adopted by the i Medical Department of the University Of North Dakota was unanimously en- dorsed by this Board. tSignedy JAMES P. AYLEN, President. H. M. WHEELER, Secretary.