EDSALL'S LAST REPORT STRESSES PSYCHIATRY

Emphasizing the need for closer correlation between the fields of psychiatry and general medicine, Dean Edsall in his final report pointed out the necessity for extended facilities for study in this important branch of medicine.

"The adoption of means that will further the study of psychiatry, but will further also its becoming more closely connected with the other fields of medicine, seems likely to have very beneficial influence upon the subject itself and upon those in other medical activities," he wrote.

"Psychiatry has in extremely few cases had adequate thought and money devoted to the development of facilities for study and teaching in spite of its enormous importance."

Edsall pointed to the success of a "special psychiatry unit in the Massachusetts General Hospital which should lead to a very much increased interest in the subject from the standpoint of the training of undergraduate and medical students."

Edsall also drew attention to the poor facilities in the important fields of dermatology, which he ranks second in importance to psychiatry, and to otology, orthopaedic surgery, genitourinary surgery, and the increasing importance of the natural and social sciences in the field of medicine.