Published monthly. Representing the students, alumni and faculty of the University of Nebraska College of Medicine.

     The staff is selected by the board of publication, composed of Dr. A. E. Guenther and Dr. J. H. Patton of the faculty and alumni and three students, J. L. Keeyon, Abe Greenberg and Wm. Shepherd.

HE State of Nebraska is developing, in connection with its State University, a college of medicine of which it has a right to feel proud. But in its elation over present accomplishments we hope the state will not feel that its duty to the public has been fully fulfilled--will not lay back and rest as far as the college is concerned. For the public health of the inhabitants of a state is without doubt the largest single interest with which the state needs to concern itself. And this public health is best conserved by the maintenance of an up-to-date, effective medical school the proper education of those men in whose hands the care of the public health is given, by an efficient and progressive medical college as a branch of the State University.
     The day has passed when poorly educated men may hope to practice medicine. Both the professional and the lay press are continually urging our citizens to choose carefully those to whom they entrust their families when in need of medical attention, and to pick only those men whose education marks up to the highest standards. Sectarian schools are rapidly dropping out of existence. "Deliberately to label oneself an allopath or a homeopath or an eclectic is to return to a past epoch of medical history." Yet to keep up with the advancing standards of its own citizens the state must continually plan for the advancement and betterment of its educational facilities.
     Nebraska, although at present ranked in the highest class of American medical colleges, still requires much in addition to what she already has. One of our most crying needs is for a university hospital, built and equipped by and run entirely in the interests of the state. To quote from a recent article by H. S. Prichett, M. D., president Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, "the medical school and the hospital ought to form the very heart of those agencies by which the state undertakes to deal with the public health."
      The advent of the "A plus" rating brings added responsibilities to Nebraska. The University College of Medicine must and will afford ample opportunities for true scientific medical teaching. No state westward until the Pacific coast is reached supports an "A Plus" school, and much territory to the north and south must look to Nebraska for medical educational opportunities. The present attitude of our clinical faculty assures the students the best that can he had in clinical teaching, and no efforts will be spared to develop and maintain the closest hospital affiliations. Additional clinic is provided this year in both the Junior and Senior schedules, and the dispensary will do its part with a far more perfect organization. Better working arrangements between the surgical clinics and surgical pathology have been outlined and clinical pathology is closely associated with physical diagnosis. Nebraska accepts the "A plus" rating not with a sense of elation, but rather with a keen realization of work to be done and a high standard to be maintained.

     Since the removal of the College of Medicine from Lincoln to Omaha, and since the university has taken control of the teaching of the four medical years proper, the use of the Omaha hospitals has nearly trebled. Senior clinics are held each entire forenoon during the school year in some Omaha hospital, and Junior clinics are held four half days each week correspondingly. Four years ago this amount of clinical teaching would have been thought sufficient for many years to come. Provisions are now being made for additional hospital clinics for the ensuing year which will provide a larger amount of bedside teaching for the Junior and Senior years.

     The medical dispensary which is located near the center of the city, furnishes ample clinical work for the Junior and Senior classes in routine practice. The dispensary is divided into seven services which are open daily between the hours of four and six p. m.
     The university as a whole may well feel proud of the record of the College of Medicine for the last two years. Distinct progress has been made in laboratory equipment, in methods of instruction both laboratory and clinical, and in developing a more perfect organization. The attitude of clinical instructors is distinctly academic. The College of Medicine appeals to the highest type of medical student and furnishes opportunities for medical education equal to those of any school in the middle west.