Transactions of the Conference on the future of public health in the United States and the education of sanitarians : held at Washington, D.C. March 14 and 15, 1922 under the auspices of the United States Public Health Service.

Conference on the Future of Public Health in the United States and the Education of Sanitarians (1922 : Washington, D.C.)

Date:: 1922

Credit: Transactions of the Conference on the future of public health in the United States and the education of sanitarians : held at Washington, D.C. March 14 and 15, 1922 under the auspices of the United States Public Health Service. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$We simply give certificates for these graduates, as they do not have a sufficient length of course to take the degree. The college gives a very good course in connection with the medical school, but it does not give them a special certificate for the health work; this is simply included in their regular college course, for which they receive a single college diploma. F. W. SEARS. Yale University: So far as actual graduate courses were concerned, we are reasonably well satisfied with the situation, but we believe that a closer contact with the medical school is: essential in order to attract the younger graduates in medicine into this field. We have just secured a revision of the curriculum of the medical school which frees the student of nearly a year of the present work. Sixty per cent of the time thus freed will have to be spent on electives, and we have arranged a combined course by which a student electing the public health option in his medical course would spend the summer between his third and fourth medical years in the dispensary to secure the degree of doctor of public health in one year after graduation. This will not go into. force until the class of 1926, but the step is, IJ think, a very important one, not pri- marily on account of the saving of time, but on account of the opportunity of calling the existence of the public health field to the attention of medical students at an early stage. C.-E. A. WINSLOW. THE STATUS OF STANDARDIZATION. The amount of discord with reference to courses and degrees in public health offered by different institutions is shown very clearly in the following table, taken from the report of the committee of the American Public Health Association, above referred to. Tasie ii], 2 | heat er 0 * Degree. schools ere ig giving a 4 degree. DACHKOOMOUSELENES HT MY SLONO Face costes oe ots cea tals Sema eee ner ene eee ae 1} 2 years. Bachelorof science Inspublie health .o20.c uc ted aes eet eee ed al. Ses EE 1 | 4 weeks. ROE UNO cyc a Radel este eetitS Sale a eear GINS Sines 6 Bhetahegns SRE ae eae ats 4 Rp ase HOMERS Riek cc ea 1| 7 weeks. | @enrhilicarece sea ee ess I Oe ow OTE et ee SS 1 | Indefinite. Conbiiivated ty pei O MOQ Uo arc coc wtb 10% nom eecen'ses bir +R aaa ae Leeda okie ate nee ce 3 | 1 year. COLCMICANCT DUDLG BORILME coo. bc coe ocas Comes te ead te coe coats ce eee er cn Somerset 1 | Indefinite. Cab; 33s mandustriakbygiones «2 ets! sols ales i hee, WO. Oh ee 1 | 1 year. Oa ee TNULES EU Desi Sar, Baki eo. ctces arbre Urets Stan ghana ee CON wey Re one ey eS Riana rats orem nee 1! 1 year. Certifiedsanitarians. 238 Soe Es ee rie Sa ei ee Eas Sah eal Gel 1 | 1 year. Diplomadmpublicshealti sa. So -6 ves ek Pe ny te eas oh oars tls bene ee ee 1 | 3-6 months.. Diploma tt pile Neate ss. tac s chalet ee «SAN Son boinica abe Decaboheeas ees seer 2 | 1 year. Diploms in public hysiome >a 8 od 505i as. baw O25 05 dish dese Bake EE 1 | 1 year. Diploma,in tropical medicine and hygiene :< <2 .as csccncevacesan sec «ohadecn chu ee 1} 1 year. Doctéerot philgsoshyaia: pisblic: healihs. 2.82... See aw. ee all eh ee ee 2/| Indefinite. Doctor ofp ibliceshealthtias cote sole. Mec ewtad sac aoe ce Ret aceon a Bee sek eae 1 | 36 hours. DOckor Oli we WeALGh ee Monel te se Go so ee oe ee tee a a wee iene oie eee | 1 | 2-3 years. Doctoerat ppbhe heditliai4. Ate wcie. catncshos lena Siler Sg. Sere sR “7 | 2 years. Ee Pe Neen WN ATASUT LG LAV PACINO. a2 veces ergs a, oleh ee a eicae fevctaya tc Spe aaa, Steeaa| ale eae ete Le ae 1 | 2 years. Doctor ofscienceimshiy sient wes hey ek Sea RA ee ee ene seen 1 | 3 years. Doctorot- science jn publica (iets 1a. Skis ee ence coh eaeeieecece aes 1 | 3 years. Cradunceii. Pub MENUS... cae fect ccs Uber e Coe ne cc bee ees One epee tee Roba co ou oases 1 | 13-4 years. Master-ofarts:in-pubblickheal th. \Ns semetes pneyts ed See este eles cae Reece Seas 1 | 1-year. Master Olpmlbie mealies ounce sie neioe sails Bde che eee Sete hee see eee esac ies 2 | 1 year. Masterorscionecetinep wl blieimealth 2.4.2 0. sie cio ctna cies clos be ee eine eeleeetoe = eae 2 1 year. Master ofiscience in public health... 232) occ. Saco cae aes esc eele eee ae aa 1 | 1-2 years.$