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Soience 

 Number of Individuals, 40 



Per Cent. 



Anatomy 15 



Bacteriology 2.5 



Physiology 15 



Hygiene 5 



Eoentgenology 2.5 



Pharmacology 7-5 



Medicine 12.5 



Pathology 40 



Teachers, 90 per cent. 



Administration 

 Number of Individuals, 10 



Per Cent. 



Hospital 50 



Public health 40 



Medical association 10 



Teachers, 



Four hundred and fifty-six students were 

 graduated in the ten classes under consid- 

 eration, 166 in the first five classes, 290 in 

 the second five classes. Fifty-five were 

 women. 



Table I. shows the general careers of 

 these graduates. Twenty-six, 5.7 per cent., 

 have died, fifteen, 3.3 per cent., have re- 

 tired from practise. Of the latter, nine 

 are women who retired because of mar- 

 riage. Only five men, 1.3 per cent, of the 

 total number, have withdrawn from med- 

 ical work. These figures are certainly in 

 marked contrast to the forty per cent, of 

 graduates supposed to have dropped out 

 of practise under the old system of medical 

 education. 



Of the graduates now engaged in medi- 

 cine 80 per cent, are in practise, 8.8 per 

 cent, are engaged in teaching or scientific 

 work and 2.2 per cent, in medical admin- 

 istrative work. 



Tables II. and III. illustrate the spe- 

 cialization within the fields of practise and 

 scientific work that has taken place. The 

 percentage of graduates within each of 

 these fields is shown. The data tabulated 



are based on the records published in the 

 Johns Hopkins Circular and in the Ameri- 

 can Medical Directory. It is probable that 

 the specialization is carried even further 

 than here shown. 



Specialization carries with it in most 

 cases, and should in all cases, special train- 

 ing beyond that offered in the medical 

 school. Table IV. shows the number of 

 graduates in each of the main subgroups 

 and the percentage of graduates in each of 

 these groups whose records show special 

 training subsequent to graduation. These 

 records, as published in the Johns Hop- 

 kins Circular, are necessarily incomplete 

 and undoubtedly represent far less than 

 the total amount of postgraduate work 

 and study. In the third column the per- 

 centage is shown of the graduates of each 

 group who took a hospital interneship of 

 one or more years, in the fourth column 

 the percentage of those taking an interne- 

 ship of two or more years, in the fifth col- 

 umn the percentage of those who took lab- 

 oratory work but not a clinical interneship, 

 in the sixth column the percentage of those 

 whose postgraduate work was confined to 

 graduate study, in the seventh column the 

 percentage of those whose records indicate 

 no formal work subsequent to graduation, 

 and in the eighth column the percentage of 

 those who took an interneship at the Johns 

 Hopkins Hospital. Since these last interne- 

 ships are open to students in the order of 

 their class standings, the percentage of 

 those in a group accepting them indicates 

 the general scholarship of the group, al- 

 though some of the best students in each 

 class take work elsewhere. 



From this table it may be seen that the 

 81 graduates now in general practise whose 

 records shows no specialization belonged to 

 the group with a relatively low grade of 

 scholarship as undergraduates and with 



