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studies at the demonstrations and preserves for future reference and
comparison.
Physical Diagnosis. Physical diagnosis of abnormal conditions
within the chest is taught by Professor Lambert to classes of a dozen
students each. This course is very comprehensive, owing to the large
attendance at the Class of Heart and Lung Diseases of the Bellevue
Out-Patient Department, from which the patients are derived.
General Medical Clinics. General medical clinics are held
weekly in the amphitheatre of Bellevue Hospital by the Professor of
Medicine. At these clinics students read written histories of cases
which they have studied on the previous day. They are required to
demonstrate their findings upon the patients and are questioned be
fore the entire class in regard to diagnosis, etc. These clinics are also
utilized by the Professor of Medicine to exhibit cases of exceptional
or rarity difficult diagnosis. A second general medicine clinic is held
weekly in the Bellevue amphitheatre by the Professor of Therapeutics,
at which the effects of treatment are made the prominent feature.
Lectures. A course of ten lectures is given by the Professor of
Medicine, which is designed as introductory to the systematic bedside
teaching which he conducts upon hospital rounds. The course covers
such general topics as the theory and nature of infections, the theory
and significance of fever, cachexias, diatheses, the blood in disease, etc.
III. Fourth Year Students.
Fourth-year students attend the general ward classes and amphi
theatre clinics with the Professor of Medicine, as described for the
third year, and also make systematic rounds through the wards with
Professors Lambert and Nammack when on duty in Bellevue Hospital,
and with Dr. Conner at the Hudson Street Hospital. They attend
the medical conferences, present complete histories of dispensary and
ward patients, attend special classes in the Out-Patient Department
and during the latter part of the year recite in a review quiz in prepa
ration for hospital and State Board examinations. An elective course
in advanced clinical microscopy and diagnosis is offered in the fourth
year.
Surgery.
Surgery will be taught in the recitation room, at the bedside, and at
hospital clinics : a few didactic lectures will be given and conferences
will be held in the fourth year.
In the second year the students are required to attend recitations on
the principles of surgery -throughout the term, two hours a week.