# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S743
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 465

become more firmly established, a number of congregations regu-
larly requesting the use of field-work students. During the summer
of 1947 there were 136 applications from congregations and mis-
sions; 104 during 1948; 160 during 1949. The increased enrollment
at Concordia Seminary makes it imperative that more summer
field-work placements are secured in order that all the students
may receive their training. We bespeak the continued and increased
aid of congregations and mission boards in this area of ministerial
training.

In the resident program all second-year students are engaged
in the general parish and mission program. All third-year students
are engaged in the institutional program, and a number of the
fourth-year men are used in specialized areas and as supervisors
for the younger students under the guidance of the director.

Clinical Training

In February, 1948, Concordia Seminary initiated its program
of clinical training. Third-year students took one hour of theory
in the classroom together with an afternoon each week in clinical
experience situations. At the same time four city missionaries
took two hours in a clinical workshop each week.

In September, 1949, the city missionaries began serving as
assistant supervisors for the third-year men in their clinical work.
These missionaries are now in their fifth semester of the two-hour
clinical workshop. The one hour of theory is still presented in
the classroom and is supplemented by lectures and discussion
periods by professional people in subjects related to the problems
of ministering to individuals.

. The training program has been set up to comply with the
minimum standards of clinical pastoral training, as established in
1945. These require:

1. That the program be under the direction of a clinically

trained instructor;

2. That the student works in a situation which provides access

to people;

3. That the student writes notes on his observations and

procedure;

4. That these notes are evaluated and analyzed by the

instructor with the student;

5. That lectures be given by the instructor and competent

professional people dealing with the specific problems and
questions of the students; and that

6. The program be integrated with the Seminary curriculum: