Chapter 4: The Best
"Don't worry, Mr. Headmaster!"
Patting John on the shoulder, Professor Osler looked proud: "Don't look at the publicity that our medical school has just started recruiting students, but when it comes to the professors of various courses, it is definitely a strong soldier!" Not to mention that compared with medical schools in the United States, it is not much worse than those schools in Europe, don't worry! ”
As associate dean of Heinz Medical College, Professor Osler certainly has reason to be proud.
In the past two years, Osler himself has traveled to Europe three times, and his two assistants have been based in Germany and Austria, bringing back two professors, three associate professors, and five teaching assistants to the medical school! This is quite a brilliant achievement, you must know that it is not the era of World War I or World War II, and few of the really top talents in Europe are willing to work in North America, if it were not for John's blood to build the world's most advanced laboratory, and at the same time attract it with spacious housing and high salaries, let alone four professors and associate professors, I am afraid that teaching assistants would not be able to attract one.
Professor Delane, of anatomy, was attracted by the laboratory depicted by Osler.
Of course, Professor Osler did not fool his old friends, and as soon as the main building of the medical school was completed at the beginning of this year, John had the experimental equipment ordered in Europe shipped back. But a few laboratories in the school, such as anatomy, physiology, and pathology, cost him more than 40,000 dollars! If you add in the construction cost of the laboratory building itself, as well as the renovation of daily facilities such as running water, electricity and heating, the investment of the entire laboratory building will exceed 200,000 US dollars!
This amount of investment is enough to make medical schools all over the world look up to it.
So when Professor Delane and the others came to New York, saw the $200,000 experimental building, and looked at the medical school with a total investment of more than seven figures, they almost immediately liked this place! Especially when they meet John, the real master of the medical school? Mr. Huntelaar. When he promised that the research funds would be allocated according to the needs and actual conditions, he only thought about it for one night and agreed to stay - looking at the rows of microscopes and dissection tables, no one could refuse!
After learning John's true identity, no one would think he was joking!
A few years after John bought the dye factory, Heinz Pharmaceuticals and Heinz Medical Devices had already become stars in the medical industry around the world, whether it was aspirin and other established drugs and surgical instruments. or new products such as antitoxin serum and X-ray machine launched later, all of which already have a very large number of users, and the reputation is even more speechless, as an industry insider, Delane and others naturally understand the meaning of John's identity......
In addition to these people who were "poached" from Europe, the strength of Heinz General Hospital itself is also extremely good.
Osler of internal medicine, Thomas of surgery, Paul of anesthesiology, Howard of obstetrics and gynecology? Kelly is now a well-known name in North America. Osler himself is not to mention, this big guy was already a professor of internal medicine at the oldest medical school in North America. And Thomas and Paul, who followed John first, one surgery and one anesthesia, even if they were very affected because of John, they have long had a certain name all over the world. Even if Howard, a late professor of obstetrics and gynecology, joined? Kelly, because of the success of the new uterine otomy in the past two years and the establishment of the world's first blood bank, is now also famous!
If you add to this the more famous Ehrlich, the new medical school is indeed strong!
But......
John's concern is not the teaching power of medical schools, but the recruitment propaganda that has already begun!
This year doesn't have to be like the future. The annual admissions meeting of the university is a very tedious work, and it is necessary to unify the test scores. Interviews and so on, today's American college admissions are very simple, especially medical schools are incredibly simple! Because except for a few high-quality medical schools such as Harvard and Pennsylvania, which have been reformed, most medical schools in the United States have very poor conditions.
To put it simply, you can run a medical school in the United States with just seven professors!
The professors here were not professors in German universities, and as far as John knew, there were many small schools with only seven teachers. Most of them look like they are in their twenties, not to mention laboratories and microscopes, and they don't even have a fixed classroom! In fact, if you go back ten years, even the medical schools of famous schools like Harvard have professors who can't even use microscopes!
As for admissions. It's even more confusing.
More than 100 years later, even if the worst medical school in the United States has countless outstanding undergraduates applying for admission every year, but now, it is still pushed forward for more than ten years, and even illiterate people who are illiterate can be admitted to Harvard Medical School. Two years ago, the eight-year-old daughter of an official of the Maine health department applied for admission to many medical schools, and finally more than half of the schools admitted her, which is not a bad joke, but a fact that happened in this era!
How can a medical school's reputation be good in such a situation?
And according to the admissions criteria set by Professors John and Osler for a long time, new students at Heinz Medical School must not only pass the corresponding exams, but also have an undergraduate degree from a regular university! John didn't know how Hopkins, who had been admitted to school two years later, but he couldn't figure out how to attract college graduates who had already earned degrees in physics or chemistry!
Osler certainly understood John's concerns, but this key figure in the history of medical education in the United States was not as pessimistic as his boss, and smiled lightly: "Don't worry, the admissions advertisements we have in several newspapers in New York make it clear that graduates of this university can join Heinz General Hospital, which is very attractive to many people." And we don't plan to recruit too many students in the previous years, so I think it's okay to complete the plan! ”
"Hmm......"
After a moment of silence, John nodded slowly.
Today's Heinz General Hospital is famous in New York City!
After several years of accumulation, many New Yorkers know about this magnificent-looking hospital, and the good reputation has made more and more people begin to trust here, coupled with the first use of diphtheria antitoxin serum, the earliest use of X-ray machine and other gimmicks, several major newspapers in New York have frequently reported here. Therefore, many people know that Heinz General Hospital not only has an elegant environment and high technology, but also has a high income for doctors and nurses, which is definitely a first-class standard among ordinary people in New York.
It is precisely because of this that Osler is so relaxed.
As for the promotion that graduates can work in hospitals, there is no problem. If all the students were able to graduate to a rigorous standard, John would not hesitate to admit them all to his hospital, because he and Professor Osler were very sure that the students who graduated from their own medical school would be the best in Europe...... (To be continued.) )