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Title: World friendship, inc
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Murray, John Lovell, 1874- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Missions
Publisher: New York, Missionary education movement of the United States and Canada
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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in a shorttime two or ten or a score of new doctors, nurses, aridphysical directors who will develop other leaders of theirown sort; When you hear, therefore, of a doctor settingout for China, say, Thank God! There go a hundreddoctors! When a Y. W. C. A. physical director sailsto Singapore, say, There goes a whole new professionfor Malaysia! When a nurse goes to the Congo, say, What a splendid force of nurses Africa is getting! When Dr. O. R. Avison gave up his practise in To-ronto and his teaching position in the medical school ofthe University and went to Korea, he found that therewas no medical education in that land. Fifteen yearslater he graduated seven medical students. The wayhad been hard. The Canadian doctor had to learn thelanguage and gain experience and a knowledge of Koreanpeople and conditions. He had to start and conduct ahospital. For some time he was the entire faculty of themedical school. Today there are ten Western men, three T 03 — 3c c Ph ■4J = 03 £ &C C
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THE WORLDS HEALTH 35 or four Japanese, and ten or twelve Koreans on the teach-ing staff. The institution is now known as the SeveranceUnion Medical College and Hospital, several denomina-tions having made this a joint undertaking. Eighty-seven men have been graduated as physicians and sur-geons, seventy others are now in training in the medicalschool, and a like number in the academic department.During the same time, the Nurses Training School ofthe hospital has turned out thirty-eight Korean graduatenurses. This is a fair type of medical education as it isbeing developed in each missionary field. The China Medical Board of the Rockefeller Founda-tion has recently been expending upwards of $5,000,000on land, buildings, and equipment for the new UnionMedical College and Hospital in Peking. It is centeringon this institution, in which six British and Americansocieties are united, seeking to make it a model of itskind in plant, equipment, and teaching staff and so setthe highest standard

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