A letter on the future location of the College of Physicians and Surgeons and the University Hospital / by Frederic S. Lee and Frank H. Pike.

  • Lee, Frederic S. (Frederic Schiller), 1859-1939.
Date:
[1913?]
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Credit: A letter on the future location of the College of Physicians and Surgeons and the University Hospital / by Frederic S. Lee and Frank H. Pike. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    centrate their attention entirely upon the practical needs of their final examination. Thus could be broadened the scientific inter- ests of your graduates. Professor Wilson, of the department of zoology, writes: As far as my own department of zoology is concerned—and I think the same may be said of a number of other departments, for instance, that of botany—these advantages [of geographi- cal propinquity of the medical school, hospital, and the rest of the university] would be in some respects very great. There are in the medical school as at present organized at least four departments which represent subjects, any one of which may form a desirable minor subject for a doctor's or master's degree, taken by students whose major subject lies in the university de- partments in question. These departments are those of anat- omy, bacteriology, physiology and physiological chemistry. As you are aware, physiology has frequently been taken as a minor by students of zoology and the same may be said also of the other departments which I have mentioned. The advantages of a close association between these departments and my own are so obvious as to require no discussion. From every point of view it would be very much to our advantage could the work of these departments be carried on in, laboratories that are close to our own. As matters now stand, much time is lost by the necessity that our students find themselves under of going so far to carry on their work in the medical school. Apart from the student point of view,'the advantages of a closer association between the instructors in our department and in those of the medical school are evident. For these reasons and others which might be mentioned, I should be heartily in favor of any action looking toward the transfer of the medical school to a site upon or near the university grounds. Professor Morgan, of the department of zoology, writes: Without attempting to speak of the advantages to the uni- versity in general that might accrue if the medical school were situated in this vicinity, I may be permitted to express an opinion as to the advantages to the zoological department that might be hoped for. Many of our undergraduate students look forward to a career in medicine. The importance to them of their zoological work and the seriousness of the work might be brought home if the body of medical students mingled more