Changes in Education
Dr. Hartman’s story only encompasses the early 1930s, but the Loyola School of Medicine underwent a few curriculum and structure changes in the following years. For example, in 1933 the school introduced a clerkship at Cook County Hospital to give students more “practical contact” with patients.[4] In 1935, Loyola established its own dispensary that provided free physician treatment to those in need. Advanced students spent their clinical dispensary rotation at this space. Furthermore, Mercy Hospital merged with Loyola to become the university hospital in 1937, and the Mercy and Loyola dispensaries merged.
[4] The Loyolan, Student Publications, Loyola University Chicago Archives and Special Collections (1933), 86.