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

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PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY The most direct and notable contribution thus far made by the School of Medicine was that of securing legislative establishment and support of a state public health laboratory. This laboratory has accomplished large things under the efficient director who has been associated with it since it was opened, July I, I907. It is impossible to determine the value to preventive medicine alone; and the assistance rendered to physicians and patients in arriving at correct diagnosis of various diseases is wholly beyond one,s ability to estimate. In order to increase the echiency and multiply the service, branch laboratories have been established at Minot and Bismarck, and through this arm of public service, the University is extending first aid, not only to those who are diseased, but what is even more important, to the majority of the population who may escape disease. The Public Health Laboratory is a source of great strength to the School of Medicine because of the fact that its director is also the teacher of the important subjects of bacteriology and pathology in the University medical school. SCIENCE HALL

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SCHOOL OF MEDICINE N the University of North Dakota the medical work is grouped under The Division of Medicine.n The units of this group are the Medical School, the Course for Nurses, and the Public Health Laboratory. The School of Medicine offers the first and second years of medical college work. This work is based upon two years of required work in the College of Liberal Arts, which, in turn, rests upon four years of high school work. The School of Medicine of the University of North Dakota has ample facilities, adequate equipment, and an able corps of teachers. The facilities include laboratories and supplies in the departments of chemistry, physics, biology, anatomy, physiology, bacteriology, and pathology. The equipment consists of general and special apparatus in all the departments named, and represents a University investment of many thousands of dollars. In addition to apparatus, there are special departmental libraries and museums representing many thousands of dollars. The teachers charged with the instructional work in the School of Medicine have been trained in the best medical schools in this country. They are both teachers and actual contributors to the knowledge of medicine. The rank in state and national associations is not always an infallible measure of an individual's or institutions worth. It is, however, a fairly reliable index of merit. The School of Medicine of the University of North Dakota has always ranked exceedingly high in the Association of American Medical Colleges. This was one of the first twelve medical schools in the United States which required two years of academic training in addition to sixteen uni's of preparatory work for admission to the study of medicine. This requirement was not on paper alone. The fact is manifesting itself in the superiority of the students who go from this school for their third and fourth years of study in other medical colleges. These students are making most enviable records, and are receiving choice recognition in hospital and advanced laboratory ap- pointments. The foregoing statement of facts is a guarantee that any young man or young woman desiring to study medicine in the University of North Dakota will receive liberal and thorough instruction in the First and second years of work, and will be admitted Without handicap to the third year of any medical college which does not require more than two years of training in liberal arts college for entrance to its four-year medical course. It should be remembered that small classes, not exceeding fifteen, is the rule in tle University medical school, and that far more personal attention is given to each student than is possible in the large colleges. Furthermore, it should be known that the necessary expenses in this school are from two to three hundred dollars less, per year than are those of larger schools of medicine. In view of all this, it would seem manifest that the University is rendering excellent service to the state, through this as well as through every other college of the University group. .5 mm... pa

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The Course in Nursing This is one of the new departments of the University established in I910, for the better equipment of the nurse, demanded by the physician and community. The course consists of a year's academic training preparatory to their practical hospital experience. The academic course, which is an integral part of the University organization, has been worked out with careful regard to the necessities of the nurse,s training and provides for thorough and complete instruction in the subjects required. It will give to any young woman who expects to follow that profession a very great advantageyin the work which she is to undertake in the hospital. Upon completion of the year of academic work, students taking this course are admitted to a number of affiliated hospitals which have indicated tldeir willingness to receive them for two years of practical work. Such a course has an advantage oxer training given wholly in the hospital, in that the theoretical work is systematic and thorough, rather than frag- mentary and crowded in between long, hard hours given to tlte care of patients, rooms, Hoors, the making of beds and the like. This academic course preliminary to the hospital training of nurses is one of the only two of its character in the country, the other being the one recently established at Columbia University in New York City. -W-' e w - ;-w........... k W eMiHm m. A .r: azarr- :v m: www.mf i : .,,...e,J- -, M-..