Requirements for admission to medical schools including the combined baccalaureate and medical course : a paper delivered at the 40th University Convocation, July 1, 1902 / by Albert Vander Veer.

  • Vander Veer, A. (Albert), 1841-1929.
Date:
1902
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Credit: Requirements for admission to medical schools including the combined baccalaureate and medical course : a paper delivered at the 40th University Convocation, July 1, 1902 / by Albert Vander Veer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f:! - « v ' ^ „ i£! 1902] requirements for admission to medical schools 2o7 \ \ -+♦**- J REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSIONS 3>0 MEDICAL SCHOOLS, INCLUDING THE COMRTTED BACCALAUREATE AND MEDICAL COURSE BY REGENT ALBERT VANDER VEER Having lived long enough to witness the great progress that has been made in medical education in this State, I am pro- foundly grateful for the opportunity that presents itself to me at this time to review this subject somewhat briefly. I believe the discussion on which we are now about to enter will result ultimately some years hence in establishing between the insti- tutions granting baccalaureate degrees and the independent medical schools a more harmonious action, all of which will result to the benefit of the medical profession. I am profoundly grateful that it is my privilege and pleasure to convey to those of you who are here as citizens of the State of New York the pleasant experiences that I have in mind of the kind things that have been said about the laws of the State of New York in refer- ence to medical education, as I have heard them in our national associations, in our associations of American surgeons and of American physicians, in short wherever I have gone throughout the United States. So, as I say, these are pleasant moments for me, coming as I do from active life to discharge a duty which I realize perhaps would be better discharged by some other, some one more conversant with this line of work. In the brief address I am to present on the subject of “Re- quirements for Admission to Medical Colleges, etc.,” it is not out of place for me to take into consideration the condition that existed a little more than four decades past, occupying but a few moments in retrospection. Then, any young man who felt a desire to enter the ranks of the medical profession could, without a college or high school education, leave the counting- room, the warehouse or farm, register with some accredited physician, matriculate with his chosen medical school, and take his chances of final graduation. Even at that time the faculty of more than one college dis- cussed for some time the proper course to pursue in order to