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ltMedical EducationWhole (juestion of medical education hasMediCdI^sinnedBoardduring the past year a differentaspect from what has previously existed,brought about by the coming of the China Medical Boardof the Rockefeller Foundation. The aims of the latter inthoroughness and extent and its great resources promise tosecure results in the near future far beyond what has beenthought possible for the missionary body to accomplish.The difficult task attempted bv the missionlMrssron Schools . . .. r,hospitals or training assistants while thearduous work of the hospital and dispensary was carried onby an inadequte staff, later was supplemented by a fewsmall schools attempting to give a full course of medicalinstruction. None of these have been able to come up tothe standard set for itself and while doing excellent work incontending with the problems incident to restricted meansand a limited number of teachers, all have struggled faithfully and well against almost insurmountable difficulties. Asexamples of buoyant hope and enthusiasm, working againstobstacles with self-denying desire to help others, the effortsof medical missionaries to start medical education in Chinaare not to be despised for their aims, spirit, or. results.The China Medical Board has decided toPeking andto start two schools in China, one at Peking>;IU(1School Olie Shanghai. It is intended thatin teachers,these schools shall be so equippedplant, appliances and means as to afford as good advantagesfor medical education as can be found anywhere in theworld. It is expected that it will take some time to get awork of such thorough character under way and that themost difficult part of the problem will be to get suitableteachers for these two institutions.In addition to this work proposed theChangsha and ( }una Medical Board has luade 1 grants toScfaookassist two otjier schools, the Yale MedicalSchool at Chaiigsha and the Medical Department of the Shantung Christian University at Tsinaufu.To the Yale Medical School a grant has been made of Gold