TY  - JOUR
T1  - THe crowded medical curriculum
Y1  - 1909/08/14
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1909.02550070064011
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 560
EP  - 561
VL  - LIII
IS  - 7
N2  - During the past year one of the most important subjects of discussion has been the crowded medical curriculum. There are so many subjects in the curriculum of medical schools that it is difficult for students to get clear ideas with regard to them. This overcrowding is becoming worse every year in spite of all that has been done. At first, the overcrowding was only in the final years of the medical course and temporary improvement was effected by transferring several subjects to earlier years; but now the overcrowding, involving all years, is worse than ever. Some colleges, by increasing the entrance requirements to one or more years of collegiate work, including physics, inorganic chemistry and biology, thereby relieved the medical curriculum of those branches and secured for the medical course students better prepared to take up the medical subjects. In the Canadian schools, instead of requiring collegiate work for admission,
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1909.02550070064011
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.02550070064011
ER  -