PHYSICS.

The test involves a consideration of the elementary principles of Mechanics, Sound, Light, Heat, Electricity and Magnetism, as presented in the text of Carhart and Chute, Avery or Gage.

CHEMISTRY.

A knowledge of Remsen's Elements of Chemistry or its equivalent is required.

BOTANY.

A full year's work, two-thirds of which must be spent in the laboratory, and comprising a knowledge of the fundamental principles of plant morphology and physiology.

ZOOLOGY.

Candidates are expected to have made a careful study of ten morphological types, including eight invertebrate and two vertebrate forms, and to be familiar with the general principles of animal biology.

These examinations will be conducted by an examiner appointed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction.

The fee for such entrance examination is to be paid in advance by the applicant for admission.

Washington University has lately established a Correspondence School in which each course is the exact equivalent of the same subject as offered in the best high schools. The courses give ample preparation for admission to the Medical Department of Washington University. They are especially helpful to students who have graduated from high schools not on accredited lists, and who wish to enter the Medical School without leaving home to complete their preparation. Catalogue sent on application to the Medical Department, 1806 Locust Street, St. Louis, Mo.

Inasmuch as the requirements preliminary to the study of medicine and to the registration of physicians vary somewhat in the different States, it is particularly enjoined upon students

to conform in all respects to the special regulations governing admission to medical practice in the State in which they intend to reside.

Students from undergraduate colleges who desire subject credit in inorganic and organic chemistry must show certificates of the time spent in these branches and further must pass examinations in each one for which credit is sought.

Graduates in pharmacy from institutions having membership in the American Conference of Pharmaceutical Faculties will be given subject credit for their work in materia medica and pharmacy.

THE ADMISSION OF STUDENTS FROM OTHER ACCREDITED MEDICAL COLLEGES.

ADMISSION TO ADVANCED STANDING.

Applicants for admission to advanced standing must furnish evidence (1) that the foregoing terms of admission in regard to preliminary training have been fulfilled, (2) that courses. equivalent in kind and amount to those given in this school, in the year or years preceding that to which admission is desired, have been satisfactorily completed, and (3) they must pass examinations at the beginning of the session in September* in all the subjects that have been already pursued by the class to which admission is sought. Certificates of standing elsewhere can not be accepted in place of these examinations. The applicant must have studied as a matriculated medical student in an approved medical school for a period of time at least equal to that already spent by the class which he seeks to enter.

Graduates of other medical schools who are permitted to enter this School with advanced standing as candidates for the degree are required (a) to pay the fees charged for the years in which they are in attendance, (b) to fulfill the requirements for graduation, as stated in this Announcement, and (c) to

* See Calendar: Admission to Advanced Standing.

pass satisfactorily examinations in anatomy, chemistry, physiology and pathology.

Arrangements have been made with the Faculty of the Undergraduate Department of Washington University whereby students in that Department intending to enter the Medical School may elect in their A. B. course certain branches of the medical course. These subjects must be taken in the Medical School and the students will receive credit both in their A. B. and their M. D. course for the grades assigned to them. Such students are registered both in the Undergraduate Department and the Medical Department. By this means the time required for obtaining the two degrees may be shortened.

In this connection attention is called to the following courses which are offered to students in the Undergraduate Department of Washington University:

Cytological Technique in the Shaw School of Botany.

Zoology 1 and 2: Biology, a combination of the elementary courses in zoology and botany designed to give students a broad one year's course in biology without specializing in either subject.

Zoology 3 and 4: Comparative anatomy and embryology of vertebrates.

Although work in this line can not be accepted as the equivalent of any subject in the Medical School, students of the Undergraduate Department, who intend to study medicine, are advised to take it as preparatory to the medical course.

GENERAL STATEMENT OF THE PLAN

OF INSTRUCTION.

The course of medical study extends over a period of four years of eight months each.

The curriculum is based on the amount and kind of work required of the candidate for the degree of Doctor of Medicine. The courses are graded in such a manner that all the fundamental studies and general subjects must be taken before special courses and advanced work may be pursued. Of the latter a large part is elective, in order that the student may enjoy some liberty in the pursuit of higher studies and specialties.

The work required for the degree consists of obligatory courses, no account being taken of elective studies in the School records. Throughout the four years the classes are instructed separately in the clinics and laboratories as well as in the lecture rooms.

Instruction by the practical methods of the laboratory, postmortem room, day clinic and bedside take up about half the time of the whole course, the other half being given over to the conferences, recitations, informal talks and lectures as a means for aiding the student in systematizing and remembering the principles of medicine.

In the first year the work is limited to chemistry and anatomy. Nearly all of the time is spent in the laboratories in the study of inorganic chemistry, embryology, histology and gross and microscopical anatomy.

The work of the second year consists in a continuance of anatomical studies, physiology, pharmacology, organic and physiological chemistry, pathology and bacteriology. The study of these branches is carried on almost entirely in the laboratory.

In the second year the courses in materia medica and pharmacy are introduced, and in the latter half the class begins the study of the normal physical signs.

General medicine and surgery naturally comprise the principal subjects of the last two years.

Medicine, surgery and obstetrics, begun in the third year, are each subdivided into graded courses. The principles of physical diagnosis are presented to the student in the medical and surgical clinics and in a well organized laboratory course of clinical chemistry and miscroscopy. Into this period of the course are also introduced therapeutics, hygiene and sanitary science and some of the specialties, such as diseases of children, neurology and ophthalmology, which are taught clinically and didactically, and lecture courses on the eruptive fevers, otology and gynecology in the last half of the year.

The studies of the fourth year are carried on mainly by sectional work in the clinics and at the bedside in the hospitals. Students are drilled in making diagnoses and in prescribing treatment. Cases attended during the week by certain students are discussed by the class. Each senior student is required to attend several obstetrical cases and to make obstetrical diagnoses at the Bethesda Maternity Hospital, Obstetrical OutClinic and the Washington University Lying-in Hospital. Forensic medicine and sectional work in the special clinics are included in the work of the last year.

In order to regulate the students' work and to ascertain the results of the teaching, examinations are held regularly at stated periods (see Calendar.) Good scholarship, which includes regular attendance and satisfactory work, is insisted upon and required of all students who expect to remain in the School for the degree.