TY  - JOUR
T1  - THe philippine medical school
AU  - FREER PC
Y1  - 1909/01/23
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1909.25420300011001d
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 271
EP  - 272
VL  - LII
IS  - 4
N2  - Statistics presented at the second annual meeting of the Philippine Islands Medical Association, held in February, 1905, showed that there were in the islands only an average of one physician to 21,209 of the population of the archipelago, or one to each 430 square miles of territory; this, in spite of the fact that the medical school of the University of Santo Tomas had been earnestly engaged in educating young men in this professional field for years, having taken up the work inaugurated in former times by the missionary priests, who themselves, in their individual parishes, were compelled to assume the dual function of priest and physician. These statistics gave abundant evidence, not only of the need of more physicians in the Philippines, but also of the fact that an additional school of medicine could be established. As a result of the movement inaugurated at this meeting of the Philippine
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1909.25420300011001d
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.25420300011001d
ER  -