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212 7777i MEDICAL COLLEGE.
Medicine.*
The Course of Medicine, extending over three years, is so graded
that the student pursues a logical sequence of work throughout. No
didactic lectures upon Practice of Medicine are delivered,
their place
being wholly taken by bedside instruction and recitations. The com
plete course comprises the subdivisions following (the roman numer
als indicate the years of the course in medicine, not those of the cur
riculum) :
I. Recitations from an elementary text-book.
Normal Physical Signs of the Chest.
II. Recitations from an advanced text-book, including written
reviews.
Abnormal Physical Signs of the Heart and Lungs.
Bedside History-taking.
Bedside course in Symptomatology.
Clinical Microscopy.
Bedside course in General Medical Diagnosis.
Ten lectures on Symptomatology.
General Hospital Medical Clinics.
III. Advanced bedside course in Symptomatology and Diagnosis.
Demonstrations of patients by the student before the class.
Courses in the Out-Patient Clinic in the Heart and Lungs and
General Medicine Classes.
General Hospital Medical Clinics.
Medical Conferences.
Elective advanced work in Clinical Diagnosis (Clinical Micros
copy, History-recording, etc.).
Review quizzes for State Board examinations.
The details of the methods of instruction in medicine for each year
of the curriculum are as follows :
I. SECOND- YEAR STUDENTS.
Recitations. Second-year students begin the study of medicine
with systematic recitations from- an elementary text-book, in which
the subjects of nomenclature, etiology, morbid anatomy and typical
symptoms only are dwelt upon.
Physical Diagnosis. Normal physical diagnosis of the chest is
taught to sections of ten students each in Out-Patient Classes from
the dispensary under Dr. Bayard. Each student is required to map out
upon the patient the normal positions and sounds of the thoracic vis
cera,
and toward the end of each course of ten lessons a few
abnormal cases are introduced for comparison.
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