. Hospitals and their relation to medical colleges and the training of interns. cause they are goingdirectly into practice or they were married. Onereason for this is no doubt to be found in the fact that,owing to faulty planning, or no planning at all, of thepremedical education, the average age of the studentsgraduating in medicine in this country, including ahospital year, is about 28 years, while in England andGermany it is about 25 years. It therefore seems plain, as so forcibly set forth byDr. Bevan and others, that the premedical educationshould be so planned as to graduate our students
. Hospitals and their relation to medical colleges and the training of interns. cause they are goingdirectly into practice or they were married. Onereason for this is no doubt to be found in the fact that,owing to faulty planning, or no planning at all, of thepremedical education, the average age of the studentsgraduating in medicine in this country, including ahospital year, is about 28 years, while in England andGermany it is about 25 years. It therefore seems plain, as so forcibly set forth byDr. Bevan and others, that the premedical educationshould be so planned as to graduate our students at theage of 25 instead of 28. This would save three yearsat that period of life when the fire and ambition ofyouth with the power of assimilation and adaptabilityare at their best and count for so much when the grad-uate is beginning the stiuggle for an honorable positioni:i his chosen vocation. Reprinted from The Journal of the American Medical AssociationMarch 11,, 1911,, Vol. LXII, pp. 829-833 Copyright, 19 U,A merit an Medical Association, 535 .V. Dearborn St., Chicago.
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