physiology, and pathology. Some of the non-resident teachers go to Burlington weekly; others give a concentrated course covering several weeks. The entire teaching staff never meets. There is one full-time teacher,—in the department of anatomy.
Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $21,388. The state has lately appropriated $10,000.
Laboratory facilities: The school has an attractive new laboratory building adequate to routine teaching of anatomy, pathology, histology, bacteriology, physiology, and chemistry. No research is in progress. There is no library, no museum, few teaching accessories, and no animals on the premises.
Clinical facilities: Two hospitals with 200 ward beds are in a limited way available, but the material is predominantly surgical: medical and obstetrical cases are relatively few. Infectious diseases are in the main didactically taught. There is little bedside work, patients being examined by assigned students in a small room and subsequently demonstrated in the amphitheater. The combined Senior and Junior classes attend a majority of the clinics in internal medicine and general surgery.
The dispensary has a small attendance.
Date of visit: May, 1909.
[For general considerations see "New England," p. 224.]
Virginia
Population, 2,032,567. Number of physicians, 2215. Ratio, 1: 918.
Number of medical schools, 3.
CHARLOTTESVILLE: Population, 7307.
(1) University of Virginia, Department of Medicine. Organized 1827. An organic department of the university.
Entrance requirement: One year of college work in sciences.
Attendance: 89, 53 per cent from Virginia.
Teaching staff: 31 teachers, of whom 12 are professors, 19 of other grade, take part in the work of the department. The laboratory branches are taught by 8 instructors who give their entire time to them.
Resources available for maintenance: The budget of the department calls for $52,195, including hospital deficit; it is met out of the funds of the university. The income in fees amounts to $10,060.
Laboratory facilities: Up to three years ago the department was a didactic school.
