from Delaware. We send every credential from Delaware to the president of the State University and ask him to vouch for it. When he returns the credentials with his endorsement we accept it. That is the end of it. You must have a man in every state with a reputation who will not falsify when he signs his name to a certificate; his certificate that the school is of high school grade and that the student presenting the credentials graduated from such a school after four years of study therein. As conclusive, such procedure as this will determine the standard of every secondary school in any state. This can be done, and under existing circumstances is the only way in which it can be done. ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES. MINUTES. (Continued from page 568.) On motion, the accounts of the Treasurer were referred for audit to an Auditing Committee, on which the Chair appointed Drs. J. R. Guthrie and E. H. Long. The suggestions and recommendations contained in the report of the Secretary were referred for consideration to the Committee on Medical Education, with instructions to report at a subsequent session. Dr. W. J. Means then presented the following report of the Judicial Council: REPORT OF JUDICIAL COUNCIL. The Judicial Council has been passive in its work during the last year. No important questions have been presented that require active consideration. The chairman has had the usual number of inquiries from colleges, state boards and individuals relative to the regulations of the Association. These were along the line of college requirements and interpretation of the constitution. While the Council has not been active in the consideration of general work, it has kept in touch with the doings in medical education in the United States. The Council has been particularly interested in the investigation being made by the Carnegie Foundation and the Council on Medical Education of the American Medical Association. We are not in a position to report the findings of the former, as they relate to colleges members of the Association. The report, we understand, will be published some time in May or June and will no doubt be received with considerable interest. Many things concerning medical education and medical colleges will be brought to light that may startle the college world. We hope the report will be constructive in its effect on the colleges members of this Association. The report of the findings of the American Medical Association committee was read at the conference in Chicago, February 28, March 1 and 2, and made a profound impression on the representatives of colleges and other organizations connected with medical education and the medical profession. The report showed that out of 140 colleges in the United States only 68 were found acceptable and worthy of full recognition. Thirty-eight were classed as B colleges. These were not hopeless, but were short in certain things that could be improved. Thirty-four were found hopeless, and state boards were warned against accepting graduates from them. We have made diligent effort to get the data on which this classification was made, but so far have not succeeded. The College Association has its own system of investigating and rating colleges members of the Association, and also those seeking membership. We are satisfied that our system of examination is quite as good and as equitable as the examinations made by other examining bodies. Therefore, until the reports of the American Medical Association and the Carnegie Foundation are made public so that we may analyze the data on which this classification is based and be given an opportunity to make investigations of our own so that we may compare our findings with others, we do not feel that the Council can give the matter either publicity or final consideration. The Council wishes to offer in this connection the following recommendation: That the Judicial Council be given authority to order an investigation of the colleges now members of the Association that have been reported on adversely by the American Medical Association Council of Education, and to investigate any other colleges members of the Association that may be subjected to like criticism by other examining or inspecting bodies. Further, That these investigations be made by two persons selected by the Judicial Council and that each college inspected shall bear the expense of such inspection. And, Further, That other educational bodies interested in examining colleges be invited to participate in said inspection and examination. APPLICATIONS FOR MEMBERSHIP. The following colleges have made application for membership: Tulane University Medical Department; Harvard Med ical School; Toledo University School of Medicine; Maryland Medical College; Medical Department Universities of Nashville and Tennessee; Loyola University Medical Department; Memphis Hospital Medical College. The Council recommends that Tulane University Medical Department and Harvard Medical School be accepted into full membership. The Council recommends further that action on the applications of Toledo University, Medical Department Universities of Nashville and Tennessee, Loyola University Medical Department and Memphis Hospital Medical College be postponed for one year. The applications of the Medical Department of the University of Vermont and the University of Syracuse were received during the session, too late to be considered. In the absence of an inspection report on the Maryland Medical College no action could be taken on this application. A report on these three colleges will be made at the next meeting of the Association. W. J. MEANS, Chairman, EGBERT LEFEVRE, (Signed) R. WINSLOW, H. D. ARNOLD, pro tem, On motion, the recommendations contained in this report were considered ad seriatim. The recommendations of the Council that the applications for membership of the Medical Department of Tulane University and of the Harvard Medical School be accepted and the colleges be elected to membership was concurred in and, on motion, the Secretary was instructed to record this action. The recommendations that action be deferred for one year in the matter of the applications of the Toledo University Medical Department, Loyola University Medical Department, Medical Department of the University of Nashville, University of Tennessee, and of the Memphis Hospital Medical College was also concurred in. On motion, the suggestion of the Council with reference to making an inspection of certain colleges in membership was concurred in, and the Secretary was instructed to notify these colleges of such action as soon as definite information can be obtained, and that an inspection would be made, the expense of such inspection to be met by the college inspected. It was considered unwise and uncalled-for to undertake an investigation at this time of any college which is said to have been subjected to criticism until authoritative information is received as to the correctness of such statements. On motion, the report was adopted as a whole. In the absence of some of the members of the Judicial Council, the Chair appointed Drs. F. C. Waite, H. D. Arnold and W. B. Hill members of the Council, pro tem. At this juncture the Vice-President, Dr. Witherspoon, took the chair, while the President delivered his address.1 On motion of Dr. LeFevre, the address was referred to the Committee on Medical Education, with instructions to consider the recommendations contained therein and report at a future session. The Association then adjourned until 2 P.M. AFTERNOON SESSION. The Association re-assembled at 2 P.M., and was called to order by the President. The Chair appointed the following Nominating Committee: Drs. T. C. Evans, E. P. Lyon, and F. C. Waite. The report of the Committee on State Medical Boards was called for and read by the chairman, Dr. F. C. Zapffe. REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON STATE MEDICAL BOARDS. National Confederation of State Medical Examining and Licens ing Boards. The annual meeting of this Association was held in Atlantic City, June 6, 1909, and was attended by Drs. Means and Zapffe. The principal topic under discussion was that of conducting practical as well as theoretical examinations for state licensure, and considerable unanimity of opinion existed as to 1 Bull. Am. Acad. of Med., June 10, p. 225. |