The Progress of Medical Education

Abstract

To the Editor: —In "Progress in Medical Education" (The Journal, March 8, 1913, p. 743) President Pritchett of the Carnegie Foundation mentions the University of Tennessee as "a university lending the shelter of its name and its charter to a medical school which it neither controls nor supports, and whose ideals of teaching are on an entirely different plane from those maintained in the other departments of its work." Inasmuch as this statement does a great injustice to our institution. I beg that you will allow me to say that the college of medicine of the University of Tennessee is an integral part of the state university and is absolutely and completely under the control of its president and board of trustees, and that no member of its faculty has any pecuniary interest in the school other than the salary which he is allowed for his services by the board