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Faculty- College of medicine d Dean mars presiding Present: Barker Bessey sales Hilton Lyman orr Peyton naite Wang millows Reccomendations of Committee on course of study or revision of the course of study.
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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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MEETING OF MEDICAL FACULTY March 31, 1905
The Meeting called to order by the dean.
Present: Dean Ward, Associate Professor Wolcott Assistant Professor Dales Assistant Professor Waite Adjunct Professor Willard Instructor Lyman Instructor Barker
The Committee on Course of Study presented its report as follows:
To the Faculty of the College of Medicine,
The University of Nebraska.
Your committee on course of study unanimously recommends that hereafter the schedules of the two courses stand as follows:
Six Year Course
First Year 1st. Sem. 2d. Sem. Chemistty 1,2 2 2 Physics 1,2 3 3 Mod. Lang. (German) 5 5 Zoology. 1,2 3 3 (As as present) Rhetoric 1,2 2 2 Osteology 2 Military Drill 1 1 10 10
Second Year Botony 1,2 3 3 Chemistry 3,4 3 3 Zoology 5,8 4 4 (Hygiene added) Mod. Language 5 5 Hygiene 2 Military Drill 1 1 18 16
Third Year Physiology 2 2 Physics 3,4 2 2 (Pharmaceutical) Zoology 9,10 3 3 (Botony dropped. Psychology 3 3 (Neurology added) Neurology (Anatomy 8) 2 14 16
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Fourth Year
1st. Sem. 2d. Sem. Anatomy 3,4 4 2 (Anatomy 4,2 hours instead of 4.) Bacteriology 4 (instead of 4) Pathology 5 (Pathology 5 instead of 4. Physicological Chemistry all in 2d semester. Hygiene & Physical Diagnonin dropped. Pharmacodynamics added.) Physiological Chemistry 4 Advanced Physiology 2 2 Pharmacodynamics 2 2 History of Medicine 1 1 13 16
Four-Year Course
First Year Anatomy 1,2 4 4 Neurology (Anatomy 8) 2 (Pharmaceutical Botany dropped. Neurology Added) Chemistry 1,2 2 2 Gen. Physiology 2 2 Histology 3 Embryology 3 General Medical Zoology 3 3 History of Medicine 1 1 15 17
Second Year Anatomy 3,4 4 2 (Pathology 5 hours Chemistry 3,4 (organic) 3 3 instead of 4; Chemistry, Physiological 4 Anatomy 4,2 instead Advanced Physiology 2 2 of 4. Physiological Bacteriology 4 Chemistry all in Pathology 5 2d. Semester. Pharmacodynamics 2 2 Pharmacodynamics added) 15 18
Respectfully submitted, Signed: On behalf of the Committee R. H. Wolcott, Secretary
It was moved by Adjunct Professor Willard that the report be accepted and recommended to the Board of Regents for adoption - Carried.
Adjourned 5:20 p.m.
Signed: Robert H. Wolcott, Secretary pro tem.
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MEETING OF FACULTY OF COLLEGE OF MEDICINE Called at 5:00 p.m. April 5, 1905.
Present: Dean Ward, Professor Bessey Associate Professor Wolcott Assistant Professor Dales " " Waite Adjunct Professor Willard Instructor Lyman Dr. Orr (Lecturer) Dr. Poynter, (Quiz Master)
Professor Wolcott, Chairman of the Committee on Groups of study presented the supplementary report of the Committee as follows:
To the faculty of the College of Medicine,
The University of Nebraska,
Gentlemen: Your Committee on Course of Study hereby submits the following supplementary report on the six year course. We recommend:
1. The transferring of Physics 3 & 4 to the second year. 2. The transferring of Botony 1 & 2 to the third year 3. The dropping of Philosophy 2 in the third year 4. The transferring of Physicological Chemistry to third year 5. The transferring of Anatomy of the Nervous System to the fourth year. 6. The addition of the course in Urinary Analysis and Toxicology in the first semester of the fourth year.
The course thus will stand, if those changes are accepted.
First year 1st sem. 2d Sem. Chemistry 1,2 (inorganic) 2 2 Physics 1,2 3 3 Med. Lang. (German) 5 5 Rhetoric 1,2 2 2 Osteology 2 Military Drill 1 1 16 18
Second Year Chemistry 3,4 (Organic) 3 3 Physics 3,4 2 2 Modern Language 5 5 Zoology 5,8 4 4 Hygiene 1 2 Military Drill 1 1 17 15
Third Year Chemistry 33, 34 (Physiological) 4 Anatomy 1,2 4 4 Histology & Embryology 3 3 General Physiology 2 2 Botany 1,2 3 3 Philosophy 1 3 15 16