Annual circular of the Massachusetts Medical College : with a history of the Medical Department of Harvard University, a catalogue of graduates, &c.

  • Harvard Medical School.
Date:
1846
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    STATUTES RELATING TO THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF MEDICINE. I. — The Faculty of Medicine of this University shall consist of the President, and of the Professors and Lecturers authorized to give instruction to the medical students. This Faculty shall always have a Dean elected by themselves, for such periods as they may think proper, and may also adopt rules for their own government, provided that the same do not, in any respect, contravene the laws of the University. II. — Students of medicine, designing to attend the Medical Lectures, or any of them, shall be matriculated in this University, by entering their names with the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, to be enrolled by him; and by signing an obligation to submit to the laws of the University, and to the direction of the Faculty of Medicine, and by paying three dollars. III. — There shall be holden by the Faculty two meetings annually for the purpose of examining candidates for the degree of Doctor of Medicine. They shall be holden in the Massachusetts Medical College, unless otherwise specially ordered. They may be continued by adjournment, by a vote of the members present ; and if only one member attend at the time and place designated, he may adjourn the meeting from day to day till three members of the Faculty may attend the meeting. Three mem¬ bers of the Faculty must be present on every examination. IV. — The first meeting for examination in every year shall be holden on the day next succeeding that on which the winter courses of Bledical Lectures shall terminate, at ten o’clock, A. M. The second meeting for examination shall be holden on the Monday next but one preceding the day of the annual Commencement in the Univer¬ sity, which takes place on the fourth Wednesday in August, the examination beginning at ten o’clock, A. M. In extraordinary cases, the Faculty may hold meetings for examination at other periods. V. — Every candidate for the degree of Doctor of Medicine must comply with the following conditions before being admitted to examination, viz. 1. He shall satisfy the Faculty that he has arrived at the age of twenty-one. 2 He shall have attended two courses of the Lectures delivered at the Massachusetts Medical College by each of the Professors. Except that if he have attended a course of similar Lectures in any other College or University, the same may take the place of one of the above courses.* 3. He shall have employed three years in his professional studies, under the direc¬ tion of a regular practitioner of medicine, and shall have a good moral character. 4. If he has not received a University education, he shall satisfy the Faculty of Medicine in respect to his knowledge of the Latin language and experimental philo¬ sophy.! * A third course may be attended without fee. provided that no two courses of Lectures shall be admitted to qualify students for gratuitous admission to Lectures and graduation in this school, which have not been attended in separate years, or at least six months from each other, and in schools in which the number of teachers is not less than six, and in which the time occupied by lec¬ tures is not less than four months. t Certificates of competent persons are deemed satisfactory, without a personal examination.