Author: William Pepper

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Published: 2015-07-10

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 9781331103295

Excerpt from Higher Medical Education: The True Interest of the Public and the Profession; Two Addresses Delivered Before the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania on October 1, 1877, and October 2, 1898 The first of these Addresses was delivered at the opening of the one hundred and twelfth course of lectures in the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania. As extensive and radical changes had been made in the plan of medical teaching in that school, it seemed proper that a full statement should be given of the reasons for such reforms. An attempt was made, therefore, to present fairly the then position of medical teaching in America, to point out its chief defects, and to indicate the causes that had led to them, and the evils to which they in turn gave rise. The second Address was delivered sixteen years later, in October, 1893, at the opening of the Four Years' Course of Medical Study. It is hoped it may serve to indicate the advances effected in the interval, and also the lines along which farther progress should be made. In order to enable the accuracy of the statements in these Addresses to be tested, as well as to afford information which may be of value to those specially interested in this subject, brief synopses of the state of medical education in various countries in 1877 and in 1893 have been prepared. These are given in three Appendices. The first (No. I., pp. 44-69) is that originally compiled for the address of 1877. It was based upon data secured in response to a series of questions forwarded through the Department of State at Washington to the proper officials in the respective countries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.