Preparing to build a medical school will certainly be a huge project in the future.

In fact, because of the particularity of the medical industry, although it has few majors, it offers a large number of courses, which requires a large number of teachers and sufficient teaching laboratories, so the investment is relatively large. And just having a school is not enough to solve the teaching problem, because the final year internship needs to be done in a hospital. The level of the teaching hospital will be one of the key factors that determine the final quality of medical students to a large extent. Therefore, when measuring the comprehensive strength of a medical school, it is often necessary to include its affiliated hospitals, after all, the doctors in these hospitals are also considered to be the teachers of the school.

So it's really hard to build a new medical school completely.

But in the 21st century, the importance of life sciences is unparalleled, and owning a medical school is a dream for many top universities. Therefore, a top university like Tsinghua University, which is famous for its engineering majors, quickly set its sights on medical schools after making efforts in the fields of liberal arts and sciences, and directly set its sights on the top Peking Union Medical College in China.

It's just a pity that a medical school like Peking Union College is not something that Tsinghua can swallow in one bite after all.

So after several years of entanglement, Tsinghua finally chose to develop its own medical school and began to increase investment in this field. But when the most famous university in China looked around, it was disappointed to find that Peking University, Union Medical College, Capital Medical College and 301 did not leave it a chance, and the top three hospitals in the capital had almost been carved up......

Without a good affiliated hospital, how can we develop a medical school?

Not to the top medical schools. The top hospitals in the same city have been carved up by other schools, which is undoubtedly a very painful thing for a university. And like Tsinghua University, there are also famous universities such as Nankai University and Shanghai Tongji University.

Of course. This is for the top universities.

In some places, it is much easier to go to a small school, the public can go from a junior college to a bachelor's degree, and the private school can recruit some medical school graduates, and then find a few more famous old professors or principals and other big names, or you can build a school that can enroll students. It's just the quality of education, and the employment of future students, so ......

Hehe.

But at the end of the day. This is the situation in the 21st century.

21 It was certainly much more difficult and expensive to build a medical school in the United States than in China, but at the end of the 19th century. Before 1893, to be exact, it was a different concept entirely.

It's just a medical school, what's so hard?

Therefore, after listening to John's proposal, Thomas did not have a look of surprise on his face at all. I just said with some embarrassment: "Yes, yes." But John, if you follow your plan to build a medical school, I'm afraid you will have to invest a considerable amount of money every year, and this cost will ......."

"The cost of medical school, I will naturally take out a separate one."

Without waiting for Thomas to finish speaking, John simply gave the answer. Of course, he knew what the other party was worried about, after all, the hospital was now losing money every day, and it could even be said that it was burning money. If this is another medical school, it is difficult to say how big that number will be at the end of the year!

"Good. Then I'll be fine. ”

Thomaston breathed a sigh of relief when he heard John's answer.

He had long known that John had the idea of building a medical school, and he also felt that Heinz General Hospital was indeed very suitable to support the teaching of a medical school if he thought about it in the long run. To put it bluntly, Thomas knew that it was inevitable for John to make himself the director of the hospital, but the medical school would definitely have nothing to do with him, so if he thought about it carefully, as the future president of Heinz General Hospital, Thomas had to ensure that he would not drag down the development of the hospital......

From the beginning to the end, neither of them raised the question of whether they had the strength to open a medical school.

It would be pointless to discuss this question in the 19th century, especially for someone like John, who had dozens of European students, or more accurately, the opening of medical schools in the United States in 1888 itself was not too high-conditioning, it could have been easily done.

All this, naturally, is related to the special circumstances of this era.

In the future, except for a very few countries, almost all countries in the world will implement a physician admission system, which means that they must complete the prescribed medical education, and then pass the medical practitioner qualification examination to obtain the qualification to practice medicine. For example, medical schools in the United States require only an undergraduate degree before they can apply for the exam, and after graduation, they must participate in residency training before they can be qualified to practice medicine.

China's medical practitioner system is also developing with the changes of the times.

Needless to say, the previous period when Chinese medicine was dominant, including the rise of church medical schools and the emergence of modern medical schools run by Chinese people, in fact, there was no medical practitioner system. After the advent of the medical practitioner qualification examination system, with the gradual development of medical education, the requirements in this regard have become higher and higher. For example, the adult college entrance examination and self-examination that could be applied for in the past can no longer be examined, and those medical students from vocational and technical colleges and non-medical colleges are no longer allowed to apply for the examination......

The progress of the times is reflected little by little in these subtle changes.

Well, habitually far away.

Back in New York in 1888, not many Americans in this era cared about the issue of physician qualifications, and the anti-intellectual wave and the lack of higher education in the United States doomed it to be meaningless to mention so-called professional qualifications in this era. And by its very nature, American medical schools are largely incapable of producing qualified graduates – and the 1910 Flexner Report made this abundantly clear.

If you look at the American medical schools of the same era, you can see how bad their situation was.

Harvard Medical School began reforming more than a decade ago, increasing the number of years and requirements for medical students, and before that, students were not required to read and write, and their medical professors could not even use microscopes — one of the best medical schools of its time. For most small schools, seven "professors" can open for students, and the annual tuition fee of $100 per person is the source of the professors' livelihood, while in medical school, these students only need to complete ten months of study before and after they can go out and see a doctor with their heads held high.

It wasn't until 1893 that the founding of the Hopkins University School of Medicine began to change all that.

Thinking of this, John's eyebrows raised slightly, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curve a wonderful arc: "Three years of preparation is enough to build a high-level medical school, and it will definitely be able to recruit the first class of students before the Hopkins University School of Medicine!" In contrast, I can give this medical school a bigger investment, a bigger scale, and a more advanced concept...... Oh, the banner of medical higher education reform in the United States seems to be destined to stay in New York......" (to be continued......