1368

Date 1929-09-18

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EDMONTON BULLETIN Alberia s Oldest Newapy lt; Alberta Opens Doors To i Women In Medical Profession Great New Field Waiting for Girls Who Would be Doctors Expenses Heavy and Course Long, But Results Are Very Much Worth While BY HELEN M, BOYLE The art of healing and the power to eliminate suffering is of special interest to women, go it is not surprising that )'S RECORD: ho broke com- peed record at average apeed iles an hour e Pacific and Auaut AT TWELVE: r, twelve, St. competing hes at a gun t men BROTHERS: Waukegan, i one of the sique baseball f them play gt; ball LAURELS: ald E. Mac- . won honors ts at Banff ng and Scot+ val recently forced and+ oute one of the first professions which attracted the fair sex was medicine. It is about forty years since the first Canadian women received their M.D. degrees from the University of Toronto, and since that time t co-eds in almost every graduating class from t ere hua bea a sprinkling of is faculty. There is a fascination in the practice of medicine which onl the doctor understands. To be able to save the life which has been despaired of, and to bring relief to one who is fuer, is only part of the work of the woman doctor who is daily in touch with the deepest notes of humanity. Requires Longest Training Of all the professions open to wo- men, medicine ts the one which re- quires the long- jag eat training. Af- ter passing her senior ma trict Intion, or fire year in Arts at) the Univer the medical stu- ) dent for gree, and 1s, able) fo practice. That) fn the one axpect of the profession which must be tm pressed upon, women. students, as the authorities have found that a certain num) ber of them drop out of the course after taking only, the first oF sece ond year. This is hot. becattse they have found the course too diffi cult, etther from tie academtc or Dr. Viola Rae physical point of view, but becase Uiey have found it too long, and have Aeclded to branch into something else Most. Expensive beng the longest,. medi- Is also the most expensive of the University courses. Im the first alone the fees for taltion alone the University of In addition there ing It to a total of 212. The actual fees for struction and administration th ill amount tp 1220. In the combined Aris and Medicine course of cight: years duration the fea would amount to 131 Needs Reserve But even after paying -her year's fees, the medical student must open her purse or her cheque again, for there are many other vexpenses: Medical books are always, expensive mt Surgery ts the Tn the senior years the ef cdilection of Instruments and equipmentyaind these aro not cheap. Even sturdy lab coats wear out must be replaced. So the medical student must have a good Substantial reserve fund, or at ex- Amination time. sbe may find finances 15 mush worry as kiiowledge. Don't on Caution Money Unlike her sisters 'in the other fac- ties, she cannot depend on her caution money to see her through hose last few weeks. Each student at the University nuts up 5 caution Money at the beginning of the term, And after all breakages have been de-, ducted from the fund the handsome stim of 4.27 or some other carefully. calculated amount is returned to they Student. The last few weeks of 'Var- sity will find the students planning to do everything from buying a month's Meals to purchasing a. graduation frock out of that 4.13, of whatever 1b happens to be that year. Accidents In the laboratories soon absorb the Med student's caution money, so even here her course Is more: exnensive, Problem of Living The problem of living expenses 5 the same for the-girl studying med- eine ax for all co-eds, except. that-sh Spends two mote years at the Unie veralty than most of them. Room and hoard charge at the University of Al- herte, is 259.00 per nession, with a certain reduction for the time the student spends at home in the Christmas. hol Board and room may be dbfained in houses tn the University district from the rate of thirty to thirty-five and. forty a. month. nee sgerer, talllon and setuad Ing expenses the student requires about 500.00 annually. Clothes and extras vary accordiag to the stu- dent's means and taste, but 800.00 fs conservative estimate of the student's expenses, which for the years would amount to 4,900, (in this connection I Only pays for her tuition in part. The tultion fee only covers 'n frac- tion of the expense of the lectures and labs, the rest being paid for by Sgyernment of the provines) Somie women students have taken Arts and Medicine, an eight year course. whilesothers had been gradu- Atod in Arts before starting their pro- fesitonal course. The combined course 4s outlined to give tl gradual education. Pawning. Not Necessary However this difficult question of finance ie not ta more fome tom. small number fleverest and ee capab)e women ot i This is the second article tn series. dealing with. trades and rofessions open to the girls of Eaimonton, aha gives coms very definite and valuable information regarding the medical profession for women. Next week's article will deal with teaching. Into The Honpital After successfully studying for sbx wing her M.D. degree and dng her Dotainion Counell examifations, the medical student has become a fully qualified, What then? Most: young. graduates go into hospital for a year as internes to gain further experience. The larger the hospital, tho greater t ence thy.will meet, However, in very large hospital the woman doctor Wil get ite else bul experience the ilttle else beng perhaps fifty dol 4 tars month with ositions to reneral practice, There tre plenty of these open to. her In the research, bacterlology oF path logy nbs, tn, oopitaln or Tn Wubi calth services. The sdvantages these positions are that the hours are. more. definite and the pay monthly cheque more certain, ax well an the fact that this type of work often appeals more to a wo- man doctor than does a general Practice. In the eastern United Siatea there. are several women's hospitals siatted entirely by women, and in the Women's Callege Hosp tal in T ronte women doctors: per- form the operations as well as doing all the al service. Starting General Practice Starting a general practice is the most trying time of the doctor's career. In the first year most of th omen, take part-time school po tion which will bring them one hut dred dollars a month, so they are cer- tain of 1200 in that first. twelve months. By the end of the first year the. woman doctor has generally made 8 place for herself in the community and her practice has taken root an ten women doctors earning 25,000 a year, while the average earnings of the women doctors there fare 8000 year, Prom the purely financial point of view this would be good return for the 4800 spent at University. WI Women Go to Women M.D. If figures alone can tell the tale, these will dispel the idea: that there 1 prejudice i, women, doctor women will not go fo a woman doctor, 1s. sometimes heard. While doctor's admit that this 1s true of some women, they point out that on the other hand there are women who pre- fer to go to women doctors instead of to mento the matter stands about even regard. The woman doc- tor has. had just the same training and meets. ths same experiences as her fohe, aiid once sha has established herself St is her ability Which counts, There is certainly field for women, specializing in women's and children's work, as prac tleally all women doctors do, and it ix here thet they have had ther greatent Muccqanes, There in a. great fleld for women. doctors in th west aa they are still very few in numbers here, white in the eastern United Btates there -are hundreds of them practicing, and in Norway and Sweden there. are. almost as many women. doctors aa there are men iat Alberta Grads Are Doing A survey of the women graduates fromthe faculty of medicine atte University of Alberta shows that they are all now using their Proreentopal recor ia olay esearch wore iy treqor fa doles work snap American university: Dr. Beth Capel 48 practicing with her husband at Rimbey. Dr. Ruth Lyness Devlin ar the ume . doing post: graduate work year of 80 ago; Dr. Edith Hamilton te doing X-ray and tadlo therapy work in Milwaukee: (Dr: Kathleen Woods is a member of tho staff of the General Hospital in Van couver; and Dr. Viola Ree Is. an in- tere in the same hospital. appear that there ia wae nia oat ere Is w sride fiel to the woman doctor after her gr i Fata iene the subject take it up, On the fact, and the continual elimin through the Jong years of mindy, have: limited women graduates dows are. the the Universities. There is no other , gained usually by years, They found Unat by working in the five holiday onthe, at teaching, selling magazin doing Chautauqua, advarcing oF work. im in Inboratories, they could go hrough to graduation without. pawn- heir preciou skull. and cross Years. for leben averatee or jhgheat fearke special mabjects. hola Ships, which are of the, value of won ana the one ear The wtident statis ase freaiette tn Modicine and then what? One of the first things whieh will strike her will be that at the local University, at. omen student in the medical faculty, She Is welcomed by the facoulty and the other members of her class, Hlomever she soon finds that Med busy life, Each week she has 3 hours lecture and labs and clinics Ath her studying to be done as woll. Hin the fifth and sixth year there ar night calls and post mortema as well, fo that almost tis taken up. profession in which the ai of womanhood is so high as it is erence ee Soe A novel idea in handkerchie Hinen ith ar abptiaue' ot nen : vanes deeper tone. The rolled, a Most Remarkable Sale of 150 BEAUTIFUL FALL AND WINTER COATS That should be sold Regularly as High as 69.50 You will Save Dollars and Dollars if You Take Advantage of this Great Sale Fashion Right Wonderfully Swagger and already a Season s Success These coats were planned to be what they are already proving, one of the outstanding successes of the season. 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