The practice builder : a treatise on the conduct and enlargement of a dental practice / by Charles R. Hambly.

  • Hambly, Charles R.
Date:
1897
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Credit: The practice builder : a treatise on the conduct and enlargement of a dental practice / by Charles R. Hambly. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    The requirements for admission are about the same in all the insti- tutions which comply with the regulations of the National Association of Dental Faculties. Recently resolutions tending to the establishment of a protective system against undesirable students have been inaugu- rated, whereby a student dismissed from one school for misconduct, or for inability to pass preliminary or final examinations, may not be ac- cepted by any other college of the association until a satisfactory cer- tificate is received from the school from which he was expelled. A gradual enlargement of the requirements for admission to the schools has been noticed, and is a gratifying evidence of professional development. This nmst be gradual, notwithstanding some extrem- ists, not connected with the dental schools, and who know little of the difficulties encountered in the application of radical changes. Not a month goes by in wdiich someone does not attack the colleges through the journals or in the societies. Many w-ho are loudest for the adoption of hobbies, or for reform, have never had any connection with dental colleges, but they know all about how these institutions should be operated. They would be so strict in their entrance examinations that no one could get in; consequently no one could get out. This is perhaps as good a way of saying it as any other. However, we should like to see some of these gentlemen use some of their own capital in an effort to establish a school on the lines of the ideal dental college which they have mapped out, and upon which they claim a school should be conducted. From the most simple requirements in the early history of the col- leges, more stringent qualifications have been demanded from time to time, until at present (with those in contemplation for the near future) it may be said that the requirements for admission in the majority of dental schools far exceed in severity those in operation in most medical schools. The National Association of Dental Faculties and the National As- sociation of Dental Examiners, together with the State Boards of Den- tal Examiners, may be said to be intimately associated in an harmonious effort to raise the standard of dental education, to protect each other against unscrupulous practices, preferences, and favoritism; to compel all colleges to adopt uniform courses of instruction, according to the