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to assume what have since become, with a 

 few modifications, the modern standards 

 of medical education in this country- a 

 statistical study of the careers of the grad- 

 uates of the first ten years, 1897-1906 in- 

 elusive, may be of value in throwing light 

 on the results produced by recent trends 

 in medical education. To me the study 

 has been of special interest because I was 

 a member of the first class and assisted in 

 teaching the other classes. 



TABLE I 

 Careers of Graduates 

 (J. H. U., 1897-1906) 



TABLE II 



Fields of Practise 



(J. H. U. Graduates, 1897-1906) 



2 The requirement of premedieal college work 

 covering physios, chemistry, biology and a mod- 

 ern language, adopted to the extent of one year 

 by the Association of American Medical Colleges 

 and to the extent of two or more years by a large 

 proportion of the schools in the association is a 

 modification of the requirements adopted by the 

 Johns Hopkins Medical School beginning with the 

 first class which entered in 1893. For matricula- 

 tion a student was required to have a college de- 

 gree and to have had college training in physics, 

 chemistry and biology, a reading knowledge of 

 French and German and as much Latin as may 

 be studied in two years in a high school. With 

 the exception of the last, the only high-school sub- 

 ject specifically required, and some of the modern 

 language which could be studied in the high 

 school, the specific requirements of the Johns Hop- 

 kins could be covered by two years of college 

 work. The standards now adopted by most of the 

 better schools are quite similar except that but one 

 modern language is required instead of two. 

 Furthermore, the Johns Hopkins curriculum de- 

 voted the first two years to work in the basal med- 

 ical sciences, the last two to clinical work, an ar- 

 rangement in the main now generally adopted. 

 The standard of full-time teachers and investiga- 

 tors in the basal sciences then established has like- 

 wise been widely accepted. 



TABLE III 



Subdivisions of Activities 



(J. H. U. Graduates, 1897-1906) 



General Practise 



Number of Individuals, 156 



Per Cent. 



No specialty indicated 51.9 



General practise combined with 



Public health work 9 



Laboratory work 7.8 



Pediatries 5.8 



Obstetrics 1.9 



Surgery 10.9 



IT. S. army surgeons 3.8 



Institutional work 3.8 



Medical missionaries 5.1 



Teachers, 7.7 per cent. 



Medicine 

 Number of Individuals, 76 



Per Cent. 



Internists 46 



Pediatrists 14.5 



Neurologists 10.5 



Dermatologists 8 



Laboratory diagnosis 21.0 



Teachers, 63.2 per cent. 



Surgery 

 Number of Individuals, 133 



Per Cent. 



General surgery 43.6 



Gynecology 10.5 



Orthopedics 7.5 



Genito-urinary surgery 9 



Eye, ear, nose and throat 14.3 



Obstetrics 15 



Teachers, 42.1 per cent. 



