360 MEDICAL SCHOOL

MEDICAL COURSES

Two courses are offered, a two-year course and a four-year course.

The two-year course, established in 1907, covers the first half only of a
four-year medical curriculum and embraces certain basal and interme-
diate groups of studies. Combined with the two years of premedi-
cal work outlined above, this course leads to the degree of Bachelor of
Science, Medical Science Course. On completion of this course, the student
is expected to go elsewhere to complete the medical curriculum. Owing to
the fact that opportunities for admission to the third year are few in most
medical schools, this course is ordinarily limited to forty-eight students.
Selection is made on the basis of premedical scholarship. Students are not
promoted to the second year of the course until the completion of all of the
required work of the first year with grades of fair or better.

The four-year course, established in 1925, embraces the basal and inter-
mediate groups of the two-year course and in addition two years of clinical
instruction at Madison and at the associate clinical teaching centers. Stu-
dents are required to obtain a bachelor’s degree before being admitted to
the two years of clinical instruction. Upon the successful completion of the
latter, the degree of Doctor of Medicine is granted. Owing to the necessity
of restricting clinical instruction at the Wisconsin General Hospital so as to
make such instruction facilitate, not hamper, care of patients, this four-year
class is limited to forty-eight students or fewer. Selection is made on the
basis of premedical scholarship. Students are not promoted from one year
of the course to the next unless the required work of the year is completed
with an average grade of B, with a grade of C+ or better in all subjects.

Transfer from the two-year to the four-year course can be made only
in case vacancies occur in the latter. When such transfers occur, selection
of students to fill vacancies will be made on the basis of preceding scholar-
ship.

DEGREES

The Medical School grants the degree of Doctor of Medicine to students
who complete the requirements of the four-year course leading to this degree.

The College of Letters and Science grants the degree of Bachelor of
Science (Medical Science Course) to students who complete two years of
prescribed premedical work and the first two years of the medical course,
and the degree of Bachelor of Arts to students who complete the require-
ments for this degree and at the same time elect work in the Medical School.

The graduate school offers the degrees of Master of Arts, Master of
Science, Master of Public Health, Doctor of Philosophy, and Doctor of Pub-
lic Health to students who complete the requirements for these degrees in
the medical sciences,

 

 

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