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Objections to the proposed revision made in faculty meeting by Charles Bessey

Before this question is passed upon by the faculty, I wish to say a few words in regard to the policy of the Medical College. I do so with the full realization of the fact that the College has many difficult problems to solve and that it cannot hope to solve all of these satisfactorily at once. However, before action is taken, I wish to enter a formal protest against the making of those changes in the curriculum which make it more and more purely technical.

In the not very distant past the medical curriculum included a good deal of science, and the medical graduate was the best trained scientific man in the community. During the past quarter of a century the movement has been very distinctly in the direction of making the medical curriculum less "liberal" and more intensely practical. I regret to see this, for it seems to me that the medical man ought to be, as he was formerly, a recognized scientific authority in the community. He should be more than a mere practitioner; he should be well informed as to the relations of human beings to their biological environment. The physician should have good acquaintance with the plants and animals which may affect the health and comfort of human beings. For this reason we should be very careful in reducing the amount of science in the medical course, and for this reason I wish to have this protest spread upon the minutes of the faculty.

Faculty Adjourned
Minutes Approved

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Before this question is passed upon by the faculty, I wish
to say a few words in regard to the policy of the Medical College.
I do so with the full realization of the fact that the College has
many difficult problems to solve and that it cannot hope to solve
all of these satisfactorily at once. However, before action is
taken, I wish to enter a foreal protest against the making of
those changes in the curriculum which make it more and more purely
techinical.

In the not very distant past the medical curriculum included
a good deal of science, and the medical graduate was the best
trained scientific man in the community. During the past quarter
of a century the movement has been very distinctly in the direction
of making the medical curriculum less "liberal" and more intensely
practical. I regret to see this, for it seems to me that the
medical man ought to be, as he was formerly, a recognized scien-
tific authority in the community. He should be more than a mere
practitioner; he should be well informed as to the relations
of human beings to their biological environment. The physician
should have good acquantance with the plants and animals which
may affect the health and comfort of human beings. For this
reason we should be very careful in reducing the amount of science
in the medical course, and for this reasonI wish to have this
protest spread upon the minutes of the faculty.

Faculty Adjourned
Minutes Approved

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