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on the part of such students to obtain positions *olpital *trbitt Otpartmtnt Aotda in Canadian hospitals. Were they accepted under the present reciprocal arrangements, such A New List of Cwn&lian Hospitals Approved would automatically give them credit for their for Internship Issued state board or their examinations. A number of applications have been received from senior The 1938 revision of the list of hospitals in students of the Chicago Medical School, which Canada which are approved for internship has is unapproved, and from the Middlesex College been issued by the Department of Hospital of Medicine and Surgery, of Waltham, Mass., Service of the Canadiani Medical Association. which appears on the "unrecognized" list of Since the publication of the 1937 list six addi- the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals tional hospitals have been added to the "ap- of the American Medical Association. All hos- proved" list and one demoted, bringing the pitals approved for internship have agreed not number up to 49 hospitals, furnishing 727 intern- to accept interns from unapproved or unrecog- ships. Of these 168 are final year internships nized medical schools. under university supervision, the remainder The incidence of autopsies has been included being graduate internships. in this year's published list. Since the first list The following hospitals have been added to was prepared seven years ago, the rise in the "approved" list: Mount Sinai Hospital, autopsies has been most encouraging, and re- Toronto; St. Joseph's Hospital, Hamilton; Mc- flects upon the increasing scientific interest of Kellar General Hospital, Fort William; Miseri- the medical staffs. Many hospitals which a few cordia Hospital, Winnipeg; Grey Nuns' Hos- years ago did only occasional autopsies are now pital, Regina; St. Joseph's Hospital, Victoria. up to 30 and 40 and even 50 per cent of all As in previous issues, a list of "recom- deaths public and private. Many medical staff mended" hospitals is appended. These are hos- members who formerly only sought autopsies pitals which can provide their interns with an on public ward patients have found that they excellent training, but which, for one reason or are just as easy to obtain and are just as valu- another, do not comply with the provisions of able when done on private patients. the basis of approval. Some of these have less Highest honours go to the Children's Memorial than the minimum average daily census of 75 Hospital, of Montreal, which turned in the fine -patients; some are highly speeialized, so can record for the year 1937 of 90.8 per cent! Sec- offer but a limited service; two are beneath the ond place was almost a camera finish, the Mon- required percentage of autopsies; in some the treal Children's Hospital reported 80.8 per cent, medical staff is not organized as required by and the Montreal General Hospital reported the Basis of Approval. 80.1 per cent. The Montreal Children's Hos7 The arrangement still prevails whereby Cana- pital is on the "recommended" list rather than dian students desiring to practise in the United "approved" list, but only because it is not States, or American students desirous of taking large enough in size to meet the minimum re- an internship in Canada, may obtain credit for their Canadian internship with the National quirements for approval. Fourth position goes Board of Medical Examiners of the United to the Jewish General Hospital, of Montreal, States. This National Board of Ex- with 64.2 per cent. The Hospital for Sick Medical Children, Toronto, comes fifth with 63.1 per aminers and an increasing number of the states the of is are requiring the completion of a satisfactory cent; Hopital Ste. Justine, Montreal, internship before certifying as qualified to sixth with 62.6 per cent; the Women's General, practise. also of Montreal, with 59.8 per cent is seventh. Credit is allowed by the United States authori- Eighth position was a tie between the Vancouver ties only for a completed internship in a Cana- General Hospital and the H8pital Notre Dame, dian hospital approved for of Montreal, with 59.2 per cent. The University internship. of Alberta in Edmonton reported 57.6 per cent In the last two years it has been noted that for tenth position and the eleventh position an increasing number of students of the gradu- went to the Toronto General Hospital with 54.4 ating classes from unapproved or unrecognized per cent. The H8tel-Dieu of St. Joseph, Mon- medical schools are endeavouring to find intern- treal, was twelfth with 54.2 per cent. The ships in Canada. This coincides with the tight- Children's Hospital, of Winnipeg, was next with ening up by the American Medical Association 53.2 per cent; Regina General Hospital (52.1 on the employment of graduates of such schools per cent); Royal Victoria Hospital, of Montreal by hospitals in the United States. No hospital (50.8 per cent), and the Winnipeg General Hos- is retained on the " approved " list which accepts pital with 50.2 per cent all exceeded the 50 per graduates of an unrecognized or unapproved cent mark, the Christie Street Hospital, Toronto, school, and the result has been the endeavour having exactly 50 per cent. It is worthy of note that the Montreal hos- All comunications intended for the Department of Hospital Service of the Canadian Medical pitals hold the first four places and seven of Association should be addremed to Dr. Harvey Agnew, the first eight. Two of this group above 50 per 184 College Street, Toronto. cent have surmounted what are usually con- THE MEDicALA&qocisTioN JOURNAL 1938 188188 THE CANADIAN MEDICAL AssocIATIoN JOURNAL [Aug. 193 sidered as real handicaps. The staff of the The Canadian Medical Association- Jewish General Hospital, of Montreal, has had Alberta Division to overcome considerable racial antipathy to The annual meeting of the Canadian Medical post-mortem examinations, and the Vancouver Association, Alberta Division, will be held in General Hospital, which is Canada's largest hos- Calgary, on September 12, 13 and 14, 1938. The pital, is a non-teaching institute and only program will include a galaxy of well known partially closed. The Regina General Hospital speakers from the east and west and from the deserves similar credit. United States. The list includes Dr. A. T. Bazin, of Montreal, Dr. K. A. MacKenzie, President of the Canadian Medical Association, Dr. J. G. Young, and Dr. T. C. Routley, of Toronto, and Dr. C. Hunter of Winnipeg, repre- ftebtcal 60ietie; senting the Canadian Medical Association, Dr. M. S. Henderson, of the Mayo Clinic, Dr. C. The Fiftieth Anniversary of the American Newburg, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, Dr. R. Coulter, of Northwestern University, Chicago, Association of Anatomists and Dr. H. Spohn, of Vancouver, will be among In the Cathedral of Learning of the Uni- the prominent speakers, at what promises to be versity of Pittsburgh, and in the palatial Mellon one of our most successful meetings. Institute, on April 14th to 16th, the fifty-fourth G. E. LEARMONTH meeting of the American Association of Anato- mists was held, which marked its fiftieth The Canadian Physiological Society anniversary. President Roosevelt sent personal The Canadian Physiological Society held its congratulations. Dr. John Beattie, Conservator fourth annual meeting at McGill University, of the Museum of the Royal College of Sur- Montreal, on May 23rd. There was an attend- geons of England, and Director of Research, ance of one hundred and twenty-five. Business came and spoke felicitously for the Anatomical and scientific sessions were held in the morning Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Secretary and afternoon. The annual dinner was held in von Eggeling, of the German Anatomical the Windsor Hotel in the evening, when Profes- Society, sent official greetings, and other sor G. F. Marrian addressed the Society on the anatomical organizations sent appropriate mes- subject "Speculations upon the metabolism of sages. Among those at the head table at the the steroid hormones". annual dinner was Professor James Playfair The Council for 1938-39 was elected as fol- McMurrich, of the University of Toronto, one lows:- President, Prof. F. R. Miller, University of the oldest members,' who was present at the of Western Ontario; Secretary, Prof. G. H. second session of the Association, and who later Ettinger, Queen's University; Treasurer, Prof. served as President. He spoke feelingly of the E. M. Watson, University of Western Ontario. early days of the Association, and of the first Councillors, Prof. A. Barbeau, Universite de President, Dr. Leidy. At the meeting a hand- Montreal; Dr. J. S. L. Browne, McGill Uni- some commemorative medal of Leidy was dis- versity; Prof. A. T. Cameron, University of tributed, done in bronze by the late noted Manitoba; Prof. N. B. Taylor, University of Canadian sculptor, R. Tait McKenzie. It is Toronto; Prof. D. L. Thomson, McGill Univer- probably the last work of that great artist. sity; Prof. E. G. Young, Dalhousie University. The Association is now the largest of the Eleven new members were elected, making a national anatomical societies, having more than total membership of two hundred and thirty. 600 members. A number of Canadian anato- The Secretary reported that arrangements had mists were present, some of whom took part been made with the International Physiological in the program, which was of great size and Congress Committee by which nineteen com- varied character. Professor R. R. Bensley, munications from Canadian Laboratories are to graduate of Toronto, and a pupil of the late be presented at the International Physiological A. B. Macallum, gave a paper at the opening Congress in Zurich, August, 1938. session on a new extract of protoplasm called A resolution was passed offering to the As- "plasmosin". Secretary Corner retired after sociated Committee on Medical Research of the eight years of distinguished service, and was National Research Council the services and co- replaced fittingly by Professor Eliot Clark. operation of the Society in any project, includ- The meetings were presided over by President ing the publication of a journal. It was decided Frederic Lewis, of Harvard. The new Presi- to hold the next meeting in Kingston, in the dent is Professor S. W. Ranson. A full report autumn of 1939. will be found in "Science" for June 10, 1938. Twenty-six communications were presented. C. C. MACKLIN Abstracts of some of these are given below.