Report of the committee on the organization of the new Presbyterian Hospital on university lines.

  • Columbia University.
Date:
1912
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Credit: Report of the committee on the organization of the new Presbyterian Hospital on university lines. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and often bring an inadequate training from their previous school. Under this arrangement the remaining departments would continue to give their instruction at the college, as at the present time. Considerable space for their better accommoda- tion will be afforded. The Professors of Chemistry and Bacteriology should become respectively consulting chemist and consulting bacteriologist to the hospital; and, if they so desire, may have facilities for carrying on investigation in conjunction with the director of the medical or surgical clinic. They should, however, not have routine duties ir/the hospital while the college remains at a distance from it. This new curriculum will change the instruction in clinical pathology to the second half of the second year and at the same time will introduce primary courses in pathology and in physical diagnosis. The Department of Clinical Pathology will con- tinue to give its instruction in the school, s6 that when the students come later to the hospital they will be prepared to apply the methods already learned. Your committee has felt that the structural details of the new hospital must express the details of its organization, if it is to become an ideal and serviceable university hospital. It has, therefore, as a preliminary to a consideration of the space required for educational and scientific purposes discussed plans for the organization of their respective departments, prepared by the Professor of Surgery, the Professor of Pathology, and the Professor and the Assistant Professor of the Practice of Medicine. The following plans have the unanimous approval of the committee and are transmitted to you as setting forth the lines along which it is hoped the new hospital may be developed, and as containing reasons for the space which your committee believes the University will need: Plan of Organization for the Medical Clinic in the New Presbyterian Hospital I. Ward service of 150 beds, to be organized as follows: General wards, 132 beds in three divisions or service units, each of 44 beds, 23 for men, 18 in ward, 5 in smaller rooms, one for 3 patients and two for a single patient; and 21 for women, 16 in ward and 5 in similar smaller rooms.