Word: internships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Interns. Medical school graduates, practically everywhere in the U.S. at present, must perform at least one year of internship in a recognized hospital before being acceptable as a practitioner. In the hospitals their work is supposed to be practical, the putting into practice of their academic knowledge. Their salaries are meagre, generally between $25 and $30 a month besides board, lodging and laundry. Orderlies earn $40 to $60 a month and keep. Nurses get more. But theirs is a trade, whereas the intern is an embryo professional man. He is paying in a way for his educational contracts with skilled...
...practical suggestion was made by Prof. William L. Bailey of Northwestern University. He proposed that field service be substituted for internship, that young doctors be permitted to serve their apprenticeships as assistants to rural physicians, as well as in city hospitals...
This Album will contain a cut of each of the 104 members of the class, and beside the cut there will be information about each, giving his academic history, the hospital in which he is to take his internship, and the type of work he intends to take up after his hospital work...