"John, isn't our curriculum a little heavy?"

Thomas didn't leave immediately after the meeting, but went to his principal's office with John, and asked with a worried expression. In fact, not only did he not leave, but Professor Osler, Howard? Neither Kelly nor Ellich left, and several of the giants of Heinz Medicine gathered in John's office.

"Is it heavy?"

Hearing this, John was slightly stunned, and John couldn't help but ask rhetorically.

Think when he was in school, there weren't seven or eight courses that semester, and each textbook was hundreds of pages thick? It's a lot worse than the eight-year system of others, and I heard that medical students in the United States are even worse, and the four years of studying medicine are simply unbearable...... Where is this going to be heavy? Not to mention that the amount of knowledge is pitiful compared to a hundred years later, and the content is even more simple and excessive, take the most difficult biochemistry as an example, the failure rate of a class in the previous life is as high as 70%, and there is no such course in this life at all - the major of biochemistry has just sprouted, okay?

"It's heavier."

Howard? Kelly nodded and answered with a wry smile.

Seeing that everyone else also looked in agreement, John's face darkened and finally understood: the times are different from the times, and he has taken it for granted. In these years, many medical schools only have a two-year or three-year course, and a year is only half a year, compared to the Heinz School of Medicine, the course is indeed not light. And in the eyes of others, chemistry used to be an adjunct to medicine, and now doctors still have to prescribe their own medicines, so there is no problem in learning chemistry, but what is the use of courses such as English writing, physics, and mathematics?

Is it really useless?

At least John doesn't think so, more than a hundred years later, the field of medicine will be just a mediocre physician. Maybe many people think that mathematics, physics and chemistry are just the basics, and there is no need to learn too deeply, but if you want to have greater development, you don't know how to do it? Can you do research without statistics? Can you study the effects of drugs without knowing chemistry?

Are you kidding?!

At the end of the 19th century, these basics were even more important to medicine. To invent all kinds of devices, you need to understand physics, and to invent all kinds of drugs, you need to understand chemistry. As for courses like English writing, don't you need to submit articles to major academic journals in the future? None of this may be important to other small schools, but for the Heinz School of Medicine, which is positioned to cultivate top medical talents, these are necessary foundations!

So after just a moment of silence, John immediately shook his head and said in a deep voice: "Gentlemen, maybe our curriculum is a little heavier than in other schools, and I tried to reduce some of the content when I was compiling these textbooks, but ...... Gentlemen, let's not forget that we are cultivating a real elite. And not ordinary doctors! ”

After hearing this, everyone fell silent.

But soon Professor Osler nodded, and said with a straight face: "Yes, Mr. Huntelaer's words are exactly what I want to say, if you want to become a really good doctor, how can you not work hard for a few years?" Our medical school provides such a superior learning environment, if it is just to train some mediocre physicians, why do it? ”

If there is anyone who is closest to John's philosophy? That was undoubtedly Professor Osler.

With the heavyweight's final word, Thomas and Kelly naturally won't say much. After all, in this era, internal medicine is the mainstream after all, and surgery and obstetrics and gynecology have not yet achieved the status of later generations. As for Mr. Ehrlich, the big man of the basic medical school, he doesn't care so much, the future Nobel laureate is now focused on immunology, a discipline that has just been positioned by Mr. Huntelaar, and he really doesn't have much interest in teaching or anything.

"Mr. Ehrlich."

Looking at the indifferent look on the face of the number one general in basic research, John said with a headache: "The new students will start school in September." For the first two years, your basic medical school was in charge of teaching, so you don't have to worry about anything! ”

"Didn't I promise to go to class?"

Frowning, Ehrlich asked, puzzled.

"Uh......"

Hearing this natural answer, the other people were full of black lines.

Ehrlich is indeed different now than when he first came to New York a few years ago, as a developer of antitoxin serum. At the same time, he is one of the pioneers of immunology theory, and he is now very famous not only in New York, but also in Europe. At least as far as Heinz Medical School is concerned, I'm afraid it's second only to John, Osler and Thomas, but one thing that is very troublesome for this guy is that he is very enthusiastic about his own research, but he is not willing to pay attention to other aspects. Having him the dean of the basic medical school took a lot of money from John and Osler.

However, John was not in a hurry at all, and was silent for a while before he said slowly: "Mr. Ehrlich, I heard that you recently made another report, asking for an increase in the size of researchers?" ”

"Yes, yes, that's it!"

Speaking of the matter of his own research institute, Ehrlich's eyes suddenly lit up, and he nodded again and again: "At present, the research and development of sulfonamides occupies too many manpower, and there are some deficiencies in other aspects, so we need to increase manpower...... Well, it's better to invite some from Germany, because there is a shortage of talented people in the United States! “

Today's research institute can be regarded as a big business.

The emergence of diphtheria antitoxin serum and tetanus antitoxin serum has brought huge and continuous benefits to the institute, and among the hundreds of sulfonamide compounds that have been studied in the past few years, four have also been selected that can be used in the human body, so that the institute is now rich and rich, and the scale is naturally expanding a lot. But what worries Ehrlich is that recruiting talent is difficult, especially if you want to keep him satisfied.

"I'm always thinking about recruiting in Europe, but it's going to be difficult in the long run."

Raising his eyebrows, John smiled slightly: "Mr. Ehrlich, why don't you consider cultivating some yourself?" ”

"Cultivate yourself?"

After hearing this, Ehrlich's brow suddenly furrowed.

"That's right!"

With Professor Osler looking at each other and smiling, John nodded and said, "Do you think that we have invested so much to build a basic medicine and equipped many laboratories with the world's most luxurious experimental equipment, just to train so many medical students?" ”

"Huh?"

After hearing this, Ehrlich's eyes finally widened!

"Three years!"

Raising two fingers, John said lightly: "I give you three years of basic medical school, and I hope you can establish several truly world-class laboratories, not only in terms of material conditions, but also in terms of research level!" In addition, we must find a way to train students, and in three years' time, we will establish a graduate school based on the School of Basic Medicine to train top talents in basic disciplines such as physiology, pathology, and immunology......" (To be continued. )