RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

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thus cover a wide range of mental conditions,
and it is able to offer the student a varied experience
in psychiatric work.
In 1934 the Foundation made a grant to the
institute to assist it over a one-year period in
maintaining additional teaching and
research
personnel. In 1935another appropriation, amounting
to 236,000, was made by the Foundation to
provide similar assistance for an additional twoyear
period.
Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
Joint Program to Psychiatric Training
The Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts
General Hospital are cooperating in a
program to enlarge the scope of teaching and
research in psychiatry and to relate this work
more closely to instruction in other fields of
medicine. These institutions are well equipped
for this joint undertaking. The
hospital has
established a small psychiatric division, where
the study and treatment of mental conditions
are coordinated with the general medical activities
of the hospital This division is staffed by
the Harvard Medical School and is under the
direction of Dr. Stanley Cobb, professor of
neuropathology. In the curriculum of the medical
school and throughout the various hospital
services emphasis is given to mental phenomena.
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