Word: interneships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just as a medical student must go through a hospital interneship period, so now will a Chicago business student have to spend six months (after he has passed the first two comprehensives) in the outer world getting business experience...
...least one year as internes. Every high grade, that is "acceptable," medical school now requires at least two years college work from its matriculants. A few require four years and a baccalaureate degree (A.B. or B.S.), a policy initiated by Johns Hopkins in 1893. College, medical school and interneship bring a medical student (about 22.000 are now preparing themselves in the U. S.) to almost 30 before he or she is considered fit to practice medicine. "All wrong," insisted Surgeon William James Mayo. He believes college courses tend to dull the student's mind when it is most receptive. Dean...