RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

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THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
dation appropriated $29,000 during 1935. Of
this amount, 34,000 was for the financing of
visits to be made by teachers of preventive medicine
and deans of medical schools, for the purpose
of conferring on teaching methods and problems
in this field. The remaining $25,000 was for a
comparative study of the teaching of public
health, preventive medicine, and hygiene in
North American and Western European medical
schools. This study will be carried out during the
year beginning September 15, 1936, under the
direction of Dr. J. G. FitzGerald, dean of the
Faculty of Medicine and professor of hygiene and
preventive medicine at the University of Toronto.
Up to the present time there has been no very
extensive study of the methods employed in
public health teaching. It is important to know
the general status of instruction in this subject.
The physician's responsibilities in public health,
preventive medicine, and hygiene are steadily
increasing, and it is essential that the medical
student have proper preparation to meet the
demands that will be made upon him along these
lines. Furthermore, recruitment of medical graduates
to the advanced schools of hygiene and
public health, and thence to the public health
services, depends upon the adequate presentation
of public health in the medical schools.
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