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...Dental School...
...applicants for the Medical School from this year's Senior Class, 15 will be selected to become the first men to be educated as both dentists and doctors in a five-year course, Dr. John W. Cooke '15, chairman of the subcommittee on curriculum for the School of Dental Medicine announced at a convention of the Massachusetts Dental Society recently...
...purpose of the school is to give the general practitioner in medicine a knowledge of all parts of the human body, and to remove the dental profession from the narrow limits which force it to deal only with teeth. "It is equally important for a doctor to be able to attend to his patient's teeth as to his ruptured appendix, or broken leg," Cooke said. The school aims to "offer dentists a fundamental training identical with medicine...
...present Medical School. At least two years of college work is demanded, although in actual practice this usually becomes three years or more. The potential doctor must have at least two years of chemistry, one of biology, and one of physics. The requirements for the present Dental School are very similar, so men applying for admittance to the School of Dental Medicine will be considered by a joint committee of the two schools...
...Particular fields, not before stressed, will be emphasized by the instruction in the School of Dental Education. Orthodontics will have twice the time devoted to it as now, while the number of clock-hours devoted to Oral and Plastic Surgery, has also been doubled...