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Excerpt from Medical Education, Medical Colleges and the Regulation Practice of Medicine in the United States and Canada, 1765 1891: Medical Education and the Regulation of the Practice of Medicine in Foreign Countries This Report had its origin in 1880, in the "Report of the Committee on Medical Education of the Illinois State Board of Health," which consisted of five pages (in the "Third Annual Report of the State Board of Health") with a small table of colleges. In this committee's report the schedule of minimum requirements, which went into effect in 1883-84, was made out and adopted by the Illinois State Board of Health. Some of the suggestions then offered hold to-day as well as they did ten years ago, although, as will be seen by a careful examination of this Report, great changes for the better have taken place. It is too shamefully true that at present many students are admitted to the lecture courses, whose illiteracy prohibits their profiting by the instruction given, except in the narrowest limits, and precludes the possibility of their attaining such knowledge as the duties of the profession positively demand. Natural talent and aptitude may go far toward fitting a man for any calling, but no talent can take the place of thorough education in a profession where such large fields of knowledge are to be mastered, and so many and such important judgments are to be constantly and promptly formed. It is a palpable absurdity to expect to make skillful physicians of illiterate students by mere dint of reading them lectures, even when accompanied by quizzes and examinations. It is doubtful whether any examination of qualification such as can be made at the crowded opening of a session can be relied upon to assume the requisite preparation for admission. Not less than three full years should be devoted to a diligent study of medicine, before graduating or commencement of practice. Whoever will consider the extent of the several branches of science to be mastered by the student of medicine, will easily conclude that three full years will afford but scanty time for the work. It is doubtful whether any true scholar would attempt to do this work in such time without great hesitation. In 1881 the report on medical colleges and on medical education occupied fifty-seven pages in the "Fourth Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Illinois." This was the first time that the medical colleges of the United States and Canada were classified. 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.
