Excerpt from Why Students of Medicine Should Select the Homoeopathic School: The Prize Essay in the Medical Century Competition and the Essays Obtaining Second and Third Places
It was the pioneer in the movement for a four years medical course, and for a high educational standard in the entrance and graduation requirements. The statement that the standard and teaching is of a higher average order than in the 123 allopathic schools is well within the truth. These twenty colleges are well distributed from Boston to San Francisco, and are, therefore, easily accessible. In addition there are in the United States eightyfour general hospitals, sixty-one private hospitals, fifty-eight sanatoriums, fifty-six dispensaries, all avowedly homoeopathic, and sixty-six other institutions, State, municipal, etc., wherein homoeopathic treatment is employed. Many of these 325 institutions, especially the general hospitals, require resident physicians or internes who are naturally chosen from the graduating classes of the homoeopathic colleges. The motto of the new eductaion, We learn things by doing them, is observed in a medical course by the opportunities for clinical practice by the student. The smaller classes, besides ensuring a much closer personal contact with the professors on the part of the student, increase not only the chances for individual preferment during the course, but for hospital and other appointments on graduation. While the commercial spirit is not compatible with the sacred and philanthropic character of the medical calling, it is not only proper for the student to consider the bread and butter aspect of the question but his duty as well. If the field is already overcrowded, he owes it to himself, as well as to those in it, to choose some other calling. To the question: Is the medical profession overcrowded? there can be but one answer. If we take the total of all schools there is a great surplusage of graduates every year. As a consequence, many are obliged to abandon the practice in spite of the great expenditure of time and money in fitting themselves for it. Many others with an income less, and more precarious than that of a skilled workman in almost any industry, eke out an unsatisfactory existence. This is especially true in the cities. But in spite of this recognized excess of physicians of all schools, there seems to be an actual dearth of homoeopathic physicians.
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