Kennedy Y. Agglutination

It takes at least seven years to make a doctor--two years of premedical courses (many medical schools demand four), four years in a medical school, one to three years of interning. Thus most physicians do not open offices until they are almost 30, and many of them know little but medicine, understand nothing of the relation of their science to society, find no relaxation in art, music and literature.

Last week champions of culture received a severe setback when Manhattan's famed Neurologist Foster Kennedy, an opera enthusiast who prides himself on his florid literary style, came out with a blast against liberal college educations for physicians. "The ritual of education is devouring our youth," he told members of the New York Neurological Society. Training in a liberal arts college only "imposes infantilism" on a prospective medical student. Such training does not teach students to think scientifically for "the collection of credits in courses of oddments" can be gained by "agglutination of the tail to a wooden bench."

Dr. Kennedy urged that high-school curricula be broadened so that superior students could learn enough chemistry, physics and biology to enable them to pass rigid medical qualifying examinations without going to college. He would spend the time saved from college on added medical work, suggested a degree of bachelor of medicine after four years in medical school, M.D.s after an additional five years of study and internship.

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