Medical education and practice in all parts of the world / by Herbert Junius Hardwicke.

  • Hardwicke, Herbert Junius.
Date:
1880
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Credit: Medical education and practice in all parts of the world / by Herbert Junius Hardwicke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Professional Examination, and shall pay a Fee of £1. 6. Certificates of having passed the Examinations in General Education, con- ducted by certain Educational Bodies, shall exempt from the preliminary Exami- nation in General Education instituted by the College. PEOPESSIONAL EXAMINATIONS TOP. THE DIPLOMA OF TIIE COLLEGE 1. Candidates for the Diploma of the College shall be subjected to two Profes- sional Examinations, to be conducted at separate sittings, partly in writing and partly orally. 2. Opportunities for both Examinations will be presented five times in each year. On each of these occasions the candidates shall assemble to write answers to the ques- tions proposed, and the oral Examinations shall be conducted on the days immediately succeeding. 3. Unsuccessful candidates, either at the first or second Examination, will be remitted to their studies for a period to be deter- mined by the judgment of the Examiners, but not in- any case less than three months. 4. First 'Examination. — The first Ex- amination shall embrace Anatomy, Phy- siology, and Chemistry, and shall take place not sooner than the end of the second Winter Session. 5. Candidates who desire to pass the first Professional Examination must apply to the Secretary at 20, Melville Street, Edinburgh, on or before the Saturday preceding the day of Examination, and must produce cer- tificates of attendance in regard to all those Courses of Instruction which have reference to the subjects of that Examination, They must also produce evidence of having passed the preliminary Examination. 6. The sum of £6 6s. must be paid to the Treasurer of the College at 20, Melville Street, Edinburgh, for this Examination, not later than 10 a.m. of the day pre- ceding it. This sum will be considered as paid to account of the entire Fee of £15 15s. payable for the Diploma. 7. In the case of a candidate being un- successful at this Examination, £3 3s. will be returned to him, the remaining £3 3s. being retained to meet the expense of con- ducting the Examination. This rule applies also to any subsequent rejection. 8. Second Examination. —The second Examination shall embrace Surgery and Surgical Anatomy; also Medicine, Mid- wifery, Materia Medica, and Medical Juris- prudence ; and shall not take place before the termination of the Winter Session of the last year of study. In the case _of candidates who began their Course of study after 16th September, 1866, it will not take place till four years after the Examination in General Education [See Professional Education, 1]. 9. Applications for Examination must be made to the Secretary not later than the Tuesday previous to the day of the Examination. 10. Every candidate must produce' to the Secretary, 20, Melville Street, Edin- burgh—1st, satisfactory evidence of his having attained the age of twenty-one years, and of having been duly registered [See Preliminary Examination]; 2nd, certificates of having attended the classes enumerated in Professional Education 2, together with the 1 other certificates enu- merated in Professional Education 3; 3rd, the certificate of his having passed the first Professional Examination; and 4th, a tabular statement (for which a printed form will be furnished by the Officer), exhibiting the whole of his Profes- sional education, and distinguishing the Classes, Hospitals, Dispensaries and Schools attended during each Session of his studies. If he have been an apprentice he must also insert the name of his master, the date of his indenture, and the length of time for which he was bound. This statement, ac- curately filled up, must be attested by his signature, and will be preserved by the College as a record. 11. If the candidate have been an apprentice to a Fellow of the College he must also produce his discharged in- denture. 12. On the production of these docu- ments the Secretary will give the candidate a letter authorising the Examiners to admit him to Examination. • 13. The remaining Fee, payable to the College (being £9 9s.), together with the receipt for the Fee paid for the first Pro- fessional Examination, must be lodged, not later than 10 a.m. of the day preceding the Examination day, in the hands of the Treasurer, at 20, Melville Street, Edin- burgh, who will certify this upon the Secretary's letter. The sum of £5 5s.. will be returned to unsuccessful candidates. 14. Candidates who have passed the first Examination in Anatomy, Physiology, and Chemistry, at any of the Licensing Boards recognised by the Medical Act, will be ad- missible to the second Professional Exami- nation on producing certificates of the