Pre-Med College Courses Outlined

Pre-medical students were reassured last night that concentration in scientific subjects is neither required nor preferred by medical schools.

Harvard Medical School deans Dr. George P. Berry and Dr. Reginald Fitz '06 outlined the following "proper minimum" of courses for medical school; a year of physics, a year of biology, full year courses or their equivalents in organic and inorganic chemistry, qualitative or quantitative analysis, and a more advanced half year course in biology.

Aside from the physics course no mathematics is required, but Dean Herry said that calculus would be helpful. Concentrators in non-scientific fields were advised to try for honors instead of taking more sciences.

Dr. George E. Erikson said that the advanced College biology course should not cover material which would be taken in medical school. Courses avoiding duplication are comparative anatomy, genetics, and embryology. No preference in admission to Harvard Medical School is given to graduates of Harvard College, he added.