University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine - Scope Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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A STUDY ot the number ot students enrolled during the post one hundred yeors in the School ot Medicine ot the University ot Pennsylvonio tond their geogrophic distributionl, reveols certoin interesting tocts. It must be borne in mind in such o survey, thot the length ot the medicol course wos chonged trom two yeors to three in l876, ond to tour yeors in l893. It is olso necessory to remember thot in l9l6, o limit ot l00 wos set on the size ot the entering closs. The lorgest number ot students ever in the School ot one time wos in l896-7, when 920 were enrolled. The lorgest First Yeor Closs wos thot which entered in the toll ot l895. This closs numbered 333. ln possing, it might be odded thot only obout one-holt ot these students groduoted tour yeors loter, l-lowever, some ot those who toiled either groduoted here or elsewhere, one, two or more yeors loter, tor o student who toiled wos ollowed to repeot his yecir os otten os he wished, ond those who were dropped could guite eosily goin odmittonce to onother school. The smollest number ot students in the School BACHMAN- I think however, one sho ld A DEAN From the 1908 Scope ot one time wos during the school yeor l9l3-l4, when 266 were enrolled. This drop in the number ot students from 920 to 266 wos not peculior to our School. In l90S, there were 26,l47 students en- rolled in the lvledicol Schools ot the United Stotes, ond in l920, only l3,798. From T840 to lS90, the number ot students in the School did not vory much except during the period ot the Civil Wor. Just betore the Civil Wor, the enrollment in the School hod risen to S28 lt hod numbered between 400 ond 500 from l840 to l860. During the session l862-63, the number tell to 3l9. This wos due to the toct thot procticolly every southern student lett the School. The decreose soon wos mode up, not by the return ot the southerners, but by increosed enroll- ment ot students from the northern stotes. Probobly the moving ot the University from. Ninth ond Chestnut Streets, ond the erection in H373 ot lvledicol l-loll in West Philodelphio, now the home ot the Whorton School, ond known os Logon l-loll, together with the completion ot the University l-lospitol oppeoled strongly to those wishing to study Medicine. The new lvledicol l-loll wos modestly described in in both cheeksnn U accept that fYPe of evidence with his tongue well out Eight

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LOCKS BACK By DR. WILLIAM PEPPER WILLIAM PEPPER AB., MD., hon. Sc.D. A.B., University of Pennsylvania, 1894, M.D., 1897, hon.Sc.D., 1932. Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology, University of Pennsylvania, 1908-18, Dean, School of Medicine, 1912 to date. Trustee of The Philadelphia Free Library, Member of The American Medical Association lCouncil on medical education and hospitals, 1917-271. Member of Association of Medical Colleges lpresident, 19201. Member of Philadelphia College of Physicians. the University catalogue as the most complete building devoted to medical science in the U. S. ln the session 1876-77, there were 467 students in the School. ln 1877, the course was lengthened to three years and although there were then three classes instead ot two, the longer time needed to obtain a medical degree deterred many trom en- tering our School. The number ot students then ran between 200 and 400 until the big jump which began in 1890, reaching, as has been mentioned, 920 in the session 1896-7. The increase in the length at the course from three to tour years in 1893, seemed to have only a temporary intluence on the size ot the entering class. Since there were tour instead ot three classes in the School at a time when so many wanted to study lvledicine, this large number ot students resulted. With so many to be taught, very little laboratory work was then possible. All students, ot course, dissected and worked in the Chemistry Laboratory, but there was not the room nor equipment tor any real laboratory work in Physiology, Bacteriology or Pharmacology. Gradually this peak load dropped to the 266 in 1913. The number then began to increase again, and as our methods ot teaching improved through more individual instruction, it became necessary to limit the size ot our classes. First, in 1916, a limit at one hundred was set tor the First Year Class. This number was gradu- ally increased to the present time, when 120 are admitted. ln the early days, Medical Schools boasted about the large number ot students enrolled, but this has all changed. For the tirst hundred years, students paid each Protessor individually tor a ticket ot admission to his lectures, and as many students did not care to BEERMAN- Don't say as one of my friends did.-'A blood Wassermann should be taken on every single pregnant woman.' Nine