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Excerpt from Announcements, Vol. 38: The Medical Schools for the Sessions of 1938-39; June 10, 1938 The Medical Schools of the University include (a) The School of Medicine of the Division of the Biological Sciences, and (b) Rush Medical College. The medical work of the University is devoted to the maintenance and advance of medical science. It is organized in the Division of Biological Sciences and is carried on in close association with the work of other University Divisions - the Physical Sciences, the Social Sciences, and the Humanities. It includes teaching, investigation, the care of patients, and the clinical training of students. All candidates for the degree of Doctor of Medicine in the University do the work of the first two years in the School of Medicine of the Division of the Biological Sciences on the Quadrangles. The work of the third and fourth years may be done either in the School of Medicine on the Quadrangles or in Rush Medical College at 1758 West Harri son Street. On the University Quadrangles clinical training is provided in the University Clinics, Chicago Lying-in Hospital, and associated hospitals and dispensaries. It is also provided at Rush Medical College in the Presbyterian Hospital, the Central Free Dispensary, and associated hospitals on the West Side of Chicago. Five University departments are devoted to the fundamental preclinical medical sciences, four to clinical medical sciences on the Quadrangles, seven to the clinical medical sciences in Rush Medical College. The work of the Department of Pathology is both preclinical and clinical. These and other departments co-operate in the work of the medical courses. Through these courses the University seeks to develop graduates capable of sound scientific practice, of utilizing advances in science, and of contributing to those advances. Active research is carried on in all departments on current medical problems and in the fundamental sciences. Capable students are encou