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The United States Veterans' Bureau offers a special course in neuropsychiatry to a certain number of qualified physicians on condition that upon completion of such course they will continue in the service of the Bureau for a period of at least two years thereafter.

The policy of this Bureau is to provide expert medical attention for the disabled veterans so that everything possible may be done to restore them to health and a proper status in civilian life. To maintain this policy in the opening up of new hospitals, and being unable to secure the required number of specialists in nervous and mental disease, it becomes necessary to instruct a staff of our own for this line of work. To this end a systematic and comprehensive course in neuropsychiatry has been carefully outlined consisting of 186 lectures and demonstrations and some 430 hours of clinical and laboratory work. Each course will be for a period of about four months. There will probably not be more than two courses annually. Courses will be offered as long as it appears necessary in order to meet Bureau requirements. Instruction will include the necessary reviews of the fundamentals, followed by clinics and lectures on the various forms of nervous and mental diseases, including endocrinology. Special attention will be devoted to diagnostic methods, the general care of patients, and methods of treatment. Students will have actual experience in practical work. General problems of hospital administration, medico-legal questions, rehabilitation methods, psychometric examinations and other related matters will be adequately dealt with.

The main part of this course will be given at St. Elizabeths Hospital, a government institution for the insane at Washington, D. C., which offers unusual and unexcelled facilities for such work. There are 4,000 patients and case histories of more than 20,000 discharged patients immediately available for study. Here are all classes of nervous and psychotic diseases, while other public