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TABLE IV 

 Special Training after Graduation 

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



the least training after graduation, 32.1 

 per cent, giving no record of such training. 



The 75 graduates in general practise who 

 are specializing to a greater or less extent, 

 on the other hand, show but 12 per cent, 

 without interneship or some other form of 

 postgraduate training. 



The 76 graduates in the group of spe- 

 cialists in internal medicine show but 3.9 

 per cent, without special postgraduate 

 training, although in this group laboratory 

 work, chiefly in pathology, has been to a 

 considerable extent substituted for clinical 

 interneships. The two men of the group who 

 now hold the chairs of medicine at Har- 

 vard and Columbia, respectively, had a 

 postgraduate training largely in pathology. 



The internists show a high percentage of 

 Johns Hopkins Hospital interneships while 

 the neurologists and dermatologists have 

 depended more on dispensary training, a 

 third of the first group and two thirds of 

 the second having had work at the Johns 

 Hopkins Hospital Dispensary. 



The 133 graduates who have specialized 

 in general surgery and its various branches 

 show a high record of undergraduate 

 scholarship as evinced by the high per- 

 centage of Johns Hopkins Hospital interne- 

 ship, and few, only 6.8 per cent., without 

 records of special postgraduate work, 

 chiefly interneships. The length of time 

 spent by many of these surgeons as internes 

 and residents in hospitals is considerable. 



