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SCIENCE 



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and medical education^ before the American 

 Psychological Association in December, 1911, 

 a committee was appointed to investigate and 

 to cooperate with other bodies interested in 

 this matter. The first part of this work forms 

 the basis of the present report. 



The committee sent to all the known med- 

 ical schools in the United States and Canada 

 inquiries which would lead to an understand- 

 ing of the present belief regarding the ad- 

 visability of including psychology as a re- 

 quired subject for medical students, and which 

 would, at the same time, give facts regarding 

 the teaching of allied subjects in the medical 

 schools. Many of the institutions addressed 

 did not reply to the first letter, and five 

 months later, a second letter, incorporating 

 the same questions, was sent to each school in 

 the United States, which had not previously 

 replied.'' From the 116 schools in the United 

 States, answers were received from 24 class 

 A-t-;* 31 class A; 11 class B, and 5 class C — 

 Yl in all, or 61 per cent, of the total. Answers 

 were not received from a number of the med- 

 ical colleges which had decided to merge with 

 others or to discontinue, or which are not in 

 good standing with their respective states. 

 These include 3 class A (Baltimore Medical, 

 University of Maryland and Drake) ; 3 class B 

 (University Medical of Kansas City, Kansas 

 Medical and Birmingham Medical) ; and 7 

 class C (Jenner Medical, Herring Medical, 

 Eclectic Medical of Kansas, Ensworth Med- 

 ical, Willamette Medical, Wisconsin College 

 of Physicians and Surgeons and Milwaukee 

 Medical). In addition, one class C college 



-Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc, 1912, Vol. 58, 909- 

 921. 



* Two schools were not written to because their 

 names and addresses were unknown to the com- 

 mittee' at the time of the sending of our letters 

 (Southern College of Medicine and Surgery of 

 Atlanta, Georgia, and Chicago Hospital College). 

 No replies were received from the eight Canadian 

 medical colleges. 



* The classification of schools in the present 

 report has been taken from the ' ' Classified List 

 of Medical Colleges in the United States," re- 

 vised to April 1, 1913, by the Council on Medical 

 Education of the American Medical Association. 



(Ecletic Medical of New York) advised us of 

 its suspension. Assuming that these institu- 

 tions would have no special interest in the 

 matters of which we inquired, or, on account 

 of merging or discontinuation, could not give 

 definite answers to the questions, it leaves 102 

 American medical colleges from which an- 

 swers to our inquiries might have been ex- 

 pected. The total of 71 answers represents, 

 therefore, replies from over two thirds of the 

 presumably active medical schools in this 

 country. In many cases, individual questions 

 were not answered by the medical college 

 authorities and only in a comparatively few 

 cases were the replies full and complete. It is 

 a notable fact that the full answers were 

 received mainly from class A4- medical col- 

 leges, which, as is well known, are integral 

 parts of universities. With but few excep- 

 tions the answers from B and C medical col- 

 leges were most unsatisfactory as regards 

 completeness. 



TABLE I 



Classes of ScJiools Answering Inquiries 



Per Cent of 



Total Suspended, Expected 



Classes Numbers Answered Merged Replies 



A-1- 24 24 100 



A 41 31 3 82 



B 24 11 3 52 



C 27= 5 8 26 



Totals 116 71 14 70 



The accompanying table shows the numbers 

 of medical schools of the different classes, the 

 number in each class answering our inquiries 

 and the number of replies in each class which 

 was not expected on account of mergers, etc., 

 as indicated above. This table is an impor- 

 tant indicator of the quality of the data used 

 in making up the present report. Since the 

 committee did not ask for the privilege of 

 printing under the individual school names 

 the data and opinions furnished to it, an arbi- 

 trary number has been assigned to each re- 

 porting school, from 1 to 2^ to class A+ 

 schools; 25 to 5S and 70 and 71 to class A 

 schools; 6Jf to 6-4 to class B schools, and 65 

 to 69 to class C schools. 



' Two others not written to (see above) . 



