Reports by deputations of Branch Medical Council for Scotland appointed to visit the examination for medical degrees and licenses in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen.

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[1865]
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Credit: Reports by deputations of Branch Medical Council for Scotland appointed to visit the examination for medical degrees and licenses in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    80 arranged that no examination should be conducted unless in tlie presence of not less than two Professors, or one Professor and an Assessor, one of whom should take jottings of the subjects of examination. This would be more satisfactory, both to the Professor and to the candidate. Several of the Professors expressed to us their anxious wish that such an arrange- ment should be made imperative. We had opportunities of seeing in operation the method of judging of the answers of candidates, as well in the written as in the oral examinations. We give a table of the terms tised in judging, and the numerical signification attached to these terms :— Optime =10 Admodum Bene = 8 Bene = 6 Satis Bene = 4 Vix Satis Bene = 2 Pessime = 0 Unless a candidate gain the value of 20 on the whole subjects, he is not allowed to pass. From the specimens we saw we are satisfied that the standard is rigidly adhered to. In medicine, each candidate is also examined clinically in the Hospital, having to give a report on a case of disease, to show his abUity to examine luine, to employ the ordinary means of jDhysical diagnosis, and generally to show his aptitude in other miscellaneous details of d-aUy practice. We had not an opportunity of seeing this carried out, but Professor Gairdner has explained to us the method which is followed. R. Chbistison. Andrew Wood. Alexander Wood. ■ James Syme. SCHEDULES. [N.B.— The Questions which were printed for the Examination are given. Others were written on a black board.] ELEMENTARY ANATOMY. * July 1865. 1. Describe the form, size, and position of the acetabulum in the os innominatum, the difference in the condition of this part of the dried bone at the ages of 18 and of 25 years, and the disposition of the carti- lage, ligaments, and synovial structures connected with it in the wet state. 2. Describe form, position, and attachments of the biceps brachn muscle, and state the relation in which its several parts are placed with respect to the surrounding bones, ligaments, and muscles. • 3. Describe the form, position, and attachments of the diaphragm in its muscular and tendinous parts ; mention the several larger organs