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THE MEDICAL COLLEGE.
date and shall be in harmony with the tenets of that school as deter
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mined by its State Board of Medical Examiners.
Second exemption :
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Applicants examined and licensed by other
State examining boards registered by the Regents as maintaining
standards not lower than those provided by this article, and applicants
who matriculated in a New York State medical school before June 5,
1890, and who received the degree of M.D. from a registered medical
school before August 1, 1895, may, without further examination, on
payment of $10 to the Regents and on submitting such evidence as
they may require, receive from them an indorsement of their licenses
Regents'
or diplomas, all conferring rights and privileges of a iicense
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issued after examination
7. A fee of $25 payable in advance.
GENERAL PLAN OF INSTRUCTION.
The first two years of the medical course are devoted mainly to the
study of the fundamental medical branches, anatomy, chemistry and
physics, physiology and materia medica, and to practical work in the
laboratories and to dissection. By the end of the second year the
student will have completed the study of these subjects and will have
passed his final examination in them. Upon the basis of thorough
training in the fundamental medical branches pursued during the first
two years of the course, the student is well fitted to undertake the
study of the advanced branches. He will then devote the last two
years to medicine, surgery, obstetrics, gynaecology, to the treatment
of diseases and to the various specialties, and more particularly to the
study of those branches in the clinical laboratories, in the dispensaries
and in the wards of the hospitals.
The faculty believe that the old method of teaching the practical
branches by didactic lectures, has resulted in waste of the student's
time and is without corresponding advantage ; following this idea,
the lectures have been curtailed as far as possible,
formerly occupied by lectures is now given to class-room,
bedside instruction.
and the time
clinical and
To take the place of the lectures and to enable the student to ac
quire an accurate and thorough knowledge of the practical side of
medicine and to profit by clinical instruction,
have been established.
systematic recitations
These recitations commence in the second year and are continued
throughout the four
corps of instructors,
scribed text-books.
years'
course. They are conducted by
a large
and are based upon the subject matter of pre