Resources available for maintenance: The school has practically no resources but fees, amounting to $28,000.
Laboratory facilities: It is perhaps the best equipped of all the schools of its grade; it has good buildings, containing a good dissecting-room,—dissecting material, however, somewhat scarce,—a fairly equipped laboratory for physiology and physiological chemistry, one of the same 'character for histology and pathology, and a separate laboratory, well equipped, for bacteriology. Unfortunately, the school has no full-time instructors in these branches, so that, what with practitioner teachers and an inferior student body, the equipment cannot be used at its real value. There is a small library, but no museum.
Clinical facilities: Hospital facilities are furnished by the Grady (free city) Hospital, close by. Except in obstetrics, to which department students as not admitted, the clinical material is fairly abundant; but it cannot be effectively used,[1] and the students are so unappreciative of their opportunities that attendance in the wards is very irregular.
In the school building a large suite. of rooms is set aside for a dispensary. The attendance is ample, the methods old-fashioned.
Date of visit: January, 1909.
(2) Atlanta School of Medicine. Organized 1905. An independent school.
Entrance requirement: Nominal.
Attendance: 250; not quite 70 per cent from Georgia.
Teaching staff: 44, of whom 17 are professors, no one devoting whole time to the school.
Resources available for maintenance: Fees and gifts, amounting together to $20,000–$25,000 annually.
Laboratory facilities: Its laboratory equipment is slight, though it possesses some features uncommon in schools of its type,—an excellent projectoscope, an x-ray machine, and a small, useful library. There is no museum.
Clinical facilities: A suite of rooms in fair condition only is provided for a dispensary. Likewise, in the basement of the college, two wards, containing 20 beds, have been arranged; so far as they go, they are fairly well used. For the rest of its clinical instruction the school depends mainly on the Grady Hospital, so far off, however, that the students do not conscientiously attend.
Date of visit: January, 1909.
(3) Georgia College of Eclectic Medicine and Surgery. Organized 1877. An independent institution.
- ↑ The consent of ward patients must be obtained before bedside instruction can be given.
