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THE MEDICAL COLLEGE. 199
construction, buildings have been secured temporarily which have
been used for medical instruction and are convenient in situa
long
tion.
The full attendance in all four years of the course, due to the ad
mission of large numbers of students hitherto in other medical schools,
has made possible a complete organization of the College from the out
set, with all the fullness and detail of instruction to be found in an old
established institution. At the same time the opportunity has been
seized of making some important and very desirable changes in pre
vailing methods of instruction, especially by increasing the amount of
bedside teaching.
The standard of medical education has advanced so much in the
past decade that a four year course has been prescribed by law for all
medical schools in the state of New York. A preliminary college or
university training in the liberal arts and sciences is generally recog
nized as of inestimable advantage. For the benefit of such it has been
arranged that students in the Academic Department of Cornell Univer
sity may elect in the Medical College certain studies, thereby shorten
ing the time required for taking both the A.B. and M. D. degrees
to six years. The last two years of the four year medical course
must be spent in New York City. The great metropolitan hospitals
and dispensaries alone can supply the amount of the varied forms of
disease with which it is necessary, by his constant personal observa
tion and contact, to make the student familiar.
The full four years course of the Medical College may be taken in
New York, but under those conditions the only
degree earned will be
that of M.D. Women students must take the first half of the course
in Ithaca ( where a home is provided in the Sage College for Women )
and the last half in New York.
ADMISSION TO THE COLLEGE.
For admission to the first year class at Ithaca communications
should be addressed to the Registrar, Ithaca, N. Y. ;
at New York
City, to the Secretary, 414 East 26th St. New York City. See below
,
andpages 33-53.
For admission to advanced standing from other colleges and univer
sities, communications should be addressed to the Secretary of the col
lege, 414 East 26th St., New York City.
Requirements for Admission.
The laws of New York State require that each student before enter
ing upon the medical course, must file with the executive officer of
Regents'
the faculty a medical student's certificate.