RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

70 THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
provided fellowships for exceptionally qualified
students in this field; gave support to specific
research projects; and cooperated in programs
for the utilization of modern psychiatric knowledge
in the care of persons with incipient, acute,
or chronic mental diseases or incapacity. In
addition to this work in psychiatry the Foundation
maintained an interest in the teaching of
public health to medical students, discharged
certain obligations in connection with its previous
program in the medical sciences, and made
a few grants for projects outside the limits of its
fields of concentration. In the following pages
the year's activities are discussed briefly.
Program in Psychiatry
Aid for the Development ofTeaching Centers
In six institutions in the United States where
circumstances are especially favorable for the
development of teaching and research in psychiatry
the Foundation is cooperating in programs
to improve the presentation of this subject
to medical students and to bring it into
closer relation with other branches of medicine.
At another institution, the School of Medicine
of the University of Chicago, which heretofore
has had no facilities for psychiatric teaching
and investigations, assistance is being given in
the establishment of a subdepartment of psychi-
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