It will be some time before we can educate as many as are needed in the government hospitals, and after that has been accomplished a vast field opens before others in the provincial towns, where the need of trained assistants in caring for the sick is very great.
We found exceedingly few competent Filipino physicians or surgeons in the islands.

This condition was due not to natural incompetence on the part of the Filipinos but to the previous lack of adequate educational facilities.

The government has established a thoroughly modern college of medicine and surgery, well housed, and provided with all necessary laboratory facilities.

It furnishes the best of theoretical instruction, while its students have every opportunity for practical work at the bedsides of patients in the government hospitals, all patients in free beds being admitted subject to the condition that they will allow their cases to be studied.
While there is still an evident tendency on the part of graduates of this school to feel that they know enough, and to desire to get to making money without delay, we are nevertheless managing to attract an increasingly large number of the more competent to the intern service of the Philippine General Hospital, where as the result of additional years of practical experience they become exceptionally proficient.
This institution, with its great free clinic, offers very exceptional facilities for practical instruction, and we have already trained some extremely competent Filipino physicians and surgeons.
As funds permit, hospital work is being extended to the provinces.

At Cebu a thoroughly up-to-date sixty-bed institution is now open.