III. LENGTH OF REGULAR OR GRADUATING COURSES. 1. The time occupied in the regular courses or sessions from which students are graduated shall not be less than five months, or twenty weeks each. 2. Two full courses of lectures, not within one and the same year of time, shall be required for graduation with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. IV. ATTENDANCE AND EXAMINATIONS OR QUIZZES. 1. Regular attendance during the entire lecture courses shall be required, allowance being made only for absences occasioned by the student's sickness, such absences not to exceed twenty per centum of the course. 2. Regular examinations or quizzes to be made by each lecturer or professor daily, or at least twice each week. 3. Final examinations on all branches to be conducted, when practicable, by competent examiners other than the professors in each branch. V. DISSECTIONS, CLINICS AND HOSPITAL ATTENDANCE. 1. Each student shall have dissected during two courses. 2. Attendance during at least two terms of clinical and hospital instruction shall be required. This shall not be less than three full years before graduation, including the time spent with a preceptor, attendance upon lectures, or at clinics and hospital. The college must show that it has a sufficient and competent corps of instructors, and the necessary facilities for teaching, dissections, clinics, etc. Hereafter, diplomas of colleges whose educational requirements and methods fall below the above Schedule, will not be recognized as entitling their possessors to certificates from the ILLINOIS STATE BOARD OF HEALTH. This does not, however, affect the value of diplomas issued prior to the session of 1883-84. THE following named institutions are not recognized by the ILLINOIS STATE BOARD OF HEALTH: American Eclectic Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio. American University, Philadelphia, Pa. Bellevue Medical College of Massachusetts, Boston, Mass. First Medical College of the American Health Society, Boston, Mass. Joplin Medical College, Joplin, Mo. Livingston University, Haddonfield, N. J. Medical Department of the American University of Boston, Boston, Mass. New England University of Arts and Sciences, Boston, Mass. Philadelphia University of Medicine and Surgery, Philadelphia, Pa. In addition to the foregoing, there are a number of institutions. concerning the "good standing" of which the BOARD has not yet been called upon to decide. The standing of any medical college may, however, be readily determined-for the purposes of the Illinois Medical Practice Act-by comparing its curriculum of study and requirements with the Schedule of the BOARD above set forth. Students intending to practice in Illinois, will do well to make this comparison for themselves. Unless their diplomas are from colleges in "good standing," as thus defined, the only other method of entering practice in this State, under the law, is by passing a satisfactory examination before the BOARD. The Schedule of the ILLINOIS BOARD was adopted by the Missouri State Board of Health at its meeting in St. Louis, August 1, 1883, and will be adopted by the Minnesota State Board of Examiners at their next meeting (fall of 1883). V Medical OF LI: RARY LINOIS THE Directory of Institutions granting Medical Diplomas or Licenses in the United States and Canada, which was published in the last annual report, has been revised, enlarged, and brought up to the dates of the various announcements for the session of 1883-84. Prefacing the College Directory of each State will be found a comVarious pendium of the laws regulating the practice of medicine therein, intogether with comments by correspondents of the BOARD. other data, statistics, etc., have been added, with the view of creasing the usefulness of this contribution to the history of Medical Education in this country. A full summary and analysis will be found at the end of Directory. the MEDICAL LAWS AND INSTITUTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. ALABAMA. Population, 1 262 505.* Number of physicians, 1552.* Number of inhabitants to each physician, 813. AN ACT to Regulate the Practice of Medicine in the State of Alabama. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Alabama: SECTION 1. That no person, except those proposing to practice some irregular system of medicine, shall be permitted to practice medicine in any of its branches or departments as a profession and means of livelihood in this State, without having obtained a certificate of qualification from some authorized board of medical examiners, as hereinafter provided. § 2. That no person shall be permitted to practice any irregular system of medicine in any of its branches or departments as a profession or means of livelihood, in this State, without having obtained a diploma or certificate of qualification in anatomy, physiology. chemistry and the mechanism of labor from some authorized board of medical examiners, as hereinafter provided. §3. That the Board of Censors of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama, organized according to the constitution of the said Medical Association of the State of Alabama, which was adopted at its annual meeting at the city of Tuscaloosa, in March, 1883, and the boards of censors of the several county medical societies which are in affiliation with the said Medical Association of the State of Alabama, and organized in accordance with the provisions of the constitution just mentioned, be and are hereby constituted the authorized Boards of Medical Examiners referred to in the first section of this act. § 4. That the standard of qualifications required of persons desiring to practice medicine in this State, together with the rules for the government of the authorized boards of medical examiners, shall be such as may be determined from time to time by the said Medical Association of the State of Alabama, in accordance with the provisions of its said constitution of 1873. § 5. That every diploma or certificate of qualification authorizing any person to practice medicine in this State, which shall be issued by any authorized board of medical examiners, shall be presented to the probate judge of the county in which said person resides, who shall officially endorse the same, and seal it with the seal of the county, and who shall also cause a full and fair copy of the same to be made in a well-bound book to be kept for that purpose, and called the register of licensed practitioners of medicine, and for this service he shall be entitled to a fee of one dollar: Provided, that said Medical Association, nor any board of censors in affiliation with it, shall be allowed to charge any fee for any diploma or certificate of qualification which may be granted by it. § 6. That any person practicing medicine in this State in violation of any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof before any court having competent jurisdiction, shall be fined in the sum of not more than one hundred dollars for every such offense; and if the fine so imposed be not immediately paid, said person shall be imprisoned in the county jail for not more than one year for every such offense. 87. That all persons who shall be legally engaged in the practice of medicine in any county of this State, before the organization of the board of medical examiners of said county, all persons who at any time have been legally engaged in the practice of medicine in this State, and who are now authorized to practice medicine in this State, shall be entitled to the certificate of the board of medical examiners, and to be inscribed in the register of licensed practitioners of medicine without examination as to qualification. Where not otherwise specified, the figures of population and number of physicians are those given in the U. S. Census, 1880. 88. That the provisions of this act shall take effect in any county of this State whenever the board of medical examiners for said county shall have been organized, as herein before provided, and the fact of such organization officially communicated to the probate judge of said county by the board of censors of the Medical Association of this State. § 9. That none of the provisions of this act shall apply to females who now or may hereafter be engaged in the practice of midwifery: Provided, said females practice no other branch or department of medicine. § 10. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this act be, and the same are, hereby repealed, and this act shall be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 9, 1877. Official authority is vested in the Board of Censors of the Medical Association of the This board, elected by the Association, is composed of ten members, State of Alabama. and controls the county boards of censors, which are elected by the county medical societies, and are composed of five members. JEROME COCHRAN, M. D., President State Board of Censors, writes: "The peculiarity of our system is that the diplomas of medical colleges confer no right to practice medicine in this State. Nothing does that except the certificate of one of our examining boards, based upon actual examination of the applicant. "We have forty-three county boards and one State Board. The county boards examine graduates of reputable medical colleges only, diplomas, however, serving only as a means for getting before the board. The State Board alone examines non-graduates. "A few years ago we used to have a good many non-graduate applicants, but, having learned that our examination means something, they have almost ceased to trouble us. "The examinations are always partly written, and the county boards send these written examination papers up to the State Board; not that the board can reverse the action of the county boards in any case, but if we find them doing their work in an unsatisfactory way, we do not hesitate to censure them and to publish the censure; and if any county board should continue refractory, we could and would dissolve such board. "The examination of graduates by our county boards is not a mere form. During the last year they reported 40 applicants examined, and six of this number rejected. But even so, five of them were censured for lax examinations. "Our State Association has been disciplined into the cohesiveness and efficiency of a regular army. With us the organized medical profession is on guard in every county to prevent violations of the law; while at the same time the constant supervision of the State Board holds the county boards up to a high standard. "All persons legally engaged in the practice of medicine in Alabama at the time of the passage of this act are continued in the enjoyment of that right under certain regulations. * "All persons proposing to begin the study of medicine are examined by the county boards of censors in English grammar and literature, general and United States history, elements of arithmetic, geometry, inorganic chemistry and physics." MEDICAL COLLEGE OF ALABAMA. Mobile, Ala. (Pop. 29 132,) Organized in 1859. The college was closed during the war and re-opened in 1868⚫ There were no graduates during the years 1862-3-4-5-6-7 and '8. The faculty embraces eight professors, three adjunct professors, three lecturers, and two demonstrators. COURSE OF INSTRUCTION: One course of twenty weeks' duration annually, Course extends over two years. Graded course of three years recommended but not required. Lectures embrace anatomy, physiology, chemistry, materia medica and general therapeutics, theory and practice of medicine, surgery, obstetrics and diseases of women and children, physical diagnosis and diseases of the chest, ophthalmology and otology, histology and microscopic examination of urine, hospital and out-door clinics, practical anatomy, one course. Weekly quizzes on anatomy and chemistry. REQUIREMENTS: For admission, none. For graduation: (1) age, twenty-one years, (2) FEES Matriculation, $5.00. Lectures, including hospital, $75.00. Dissecting, $10.00. STUDENTS: No information received concerning the number of matriculates. Number of graduates, session of 1877-78, 18; 1878-79, 18; 1879-80, 20; 1880-81, 22; 1881-82, 21; 1882-83.16. REMARKS: The first four weeks of the lecture course are devoted to elementary topics, and attendance during this period is not compulsory. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY. Greensboro, Ala. Organized in 1872. Extinct; last session closed in 1880. 1 |