Proceedings of the Board of Regents (1914-1917)

FEBRUARY MEETING, 1917 687
SUGGESTIONS.
A. It would be well if the Detroit College of Medicine
and Surgery would appoint from its board of trustees a
committee of three members to confer with a like committee appointed from the Regents of the University of
Michigan Medical School. Possibly the Harper Hospital
should have a representative on the joint committee. As to
whether the faculties of the two schools should be represented is an open question. They should, of course, be
consulted on the strictly technical aspects of the problems.
The committees should be composed of those who are not
only interested in having the merger brought about but are
also especially capable of dealing with the peculiar difficulties of the situation. It appears that you are perhaps in the
best position to engineer this matter for the University of
Michigan and Dr. Jennings for the Detroit College of Medicine and Surgery. It might be well for the committee to be
appointed with power to agree on a joint plan for the
merger, which should later be submitted to the trustees of
the Detroit College of Medicine and Surgery and the Regents of the University of Michigan for their acceptance.
B. It was apparent that all in attendance at the Detroit
meeting were agreed that such a merger is desirable, and
that there should be created at Ann Arbor and Detroit one
large center of medical education, under the control of the
University of Michigan. It is not necessary, therefore, to
advance arguments on the point.
C. It will also probably be conceded that a state institution should, in view of present tendencies, plan to include in such a teaching center not only
I. Undergraduate Medical Teaching, but also
2. Practitioners' courses (ordinarily called post graduate courses), and
3. A Graduate Medical School, properly so called, as
a graduate department of the University.
D. It is common sense to utilize existing plants and
resources as far as possible, and to avoid needless duplication. The aim should be to secure the best results, irrespective of the desires of individual persons or institutions. All must cooperate in an unselfish and unprejudiced
spirit, if satisfactory results are to be obtained. At the risk
of seeming dogmatic, the following conclusions are stated
briefly, with a few supporting arguments: