Show i School of Medicine Has High Standing At the recent Decent medical em convention I which was held at the Congress HoI Hotel Hotel Ho Ho- I tel Chicago the meetings of the Council on Medical Education and I the Association of American Medical Colleges showed great advancement in medical schools The Council on Medical Education is directly responsible for the adI advance advance ad ad- vance in standards in medical cola colleges colleges col col- I a leges the aim being fewer but better better bet bet- ter schools In the third classification tion published by the Council on Medical Medical Med Med- ical Education there w were re four classes of schools A plus A B Band and C. C A revision of this classification which is at press gives only three classes A B Band and C. C The University of Utah School of Medicine in this classification tion remains in the class A group President Henry S. S Pritchett read reada a paper before the Association of American Medical Colleges on Classification Classification Classification Class Class- of Medical Colleges in which he expressed the fear that there is danger of institutions having having having hav hav- ing a greater anxiety to get into class classA A than to become real genuine fruitful fruitful fruit fruit- ful teaching institutions He says further that the concern of medical schools should be to prepare practitioners practitioners and that this should not not be sacrificed to research The requirements here at Utah are one year higher than those demanded by the Council on Medical Education for class A schools This obtains only until September 1915 when all class A colleges must require two years of pre-medical pre college work Utah students are admitted to advanced advanced advanced ad ad- standing on work worl done here at home in such schools as Harvard Western Vestern Reserve Rush Northwestern Northwest Northwest- ern Jefferson etc The Utah students students students stud stud- stand well in their various classes in the different schools Miss Lurrine Miles a former Utah medical student and graduate of the University University University sity of Utah is one of five out of a class of to receive special honors at Rush Medical College Miss Miles liles did her first two years of medicine at Utah She will receive her M. M D. D degree next June n |