Word: internships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Massachusetts will sponsor a Student Internship Program this summer to create interest in working for the state government. All Juniors, Seniors, and graduate students at colleges in the state are eligible to apply...
...books and living expenses, he cannot hope to get by for less than $1,600 a year at an out-of-the-way state school, closer to $3,000 if he goes to a private school in a big city. Then, with a minimum of a year's internship at niggardly pay, he loses five years (beyond college) during which he might have been earning money. For the schools to raise tuition fees would bear heavily on the already hard-pressed student, and would do little to close their budget wounds. Upshot: despite heavy contributions, notably those raised...
...made its most important contributions in two fields: the training and recruitment of teachers, and improving the intellectual lot of the gifted student. In 1951 it launched its famous statewide Arkansas Plan to attract more public-school teachers by giving liberal-arts graduates one year of training and internship instead of the tedious mishmash of courses usually doled out by schools of education. Though Arkansas is perhaps too poor a state to carry on such an experiment successfully, the fifth-year idea has spread to more than 25 other communities and universities...
...shingle in about four years. "The Hopkins," as Baltimoreans call it, changed all that. It demanded a college degree, then four years of medical study. This basic plan, with some variations, has been adopted by virtually all U.S. medical schools. With at least a year's internship added, it has come to mean at least nine, perhaps eleven years, between high school and the practice of medicine...
...biochemistry, physiology and medical psychology. Required concurrently: anthropology and social psychology. The third year would be similar but more advanced; at its end, students would get a B.A. ¶ Limit the fourth year to medicine, then add a fifth year, in which the student would simultaneously serve a rotating internship (i.e., switching from one type of hospital service to another...