Volume 1
Report from the Select Committee on Medical Education : with the minutes of evidence, and appendix.
- Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Medical Education.
- Date:
- 1834
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Credit: Report from the Select Committee on Medical Education : with the minutes of evidence, and appendix. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![H. Halford, 173. He is not required to produce a certificate of his attendance on the hos- Bart., M.D. pitai;—]^o ; he is required to produce his knowledge. 174. Is it the practice to examine them on their knowledge of pharmacy ?— ,8 March 1834. Yes, particularly. 175. Is that examination practical? Are any drugs, for instance, produced, and is he required off-hand to state the nature of them ?—The nature of them is required, and particularly chemical preparations. 176. Are the drugs produced, and is he required to state off-hand what they are ?—No. 177. In which of the three examinations is the candidate examined in phar- macy ?—The third ; in the practice of physic. 178. What is the interval between the three several examinations?—The cen- sors’ board is held the first Friday in every month, therefore there are three conse- cutive months; but it may not suit the convenience of the licentiate to take the next month; he will take the following one, perhaps. 179. Is it a question that is always put, in what hospital they have acquired their medical knowledge?—No. 180. Is not more attention paid to medical education at the Scotch Universities than at Oxford and Cambridge; are not the students required to attend more courses of lectures, and are not those courses of longer duration ?—I have been at both of them, and I really do not see that there was a less good opportunity of acquiring information at the English University than at the others : there are cli- nical lectures, and anatomical, and exceedingly good lectures. 181. It has been stated, that the duration of the courses at Oxford and Cam- bridge is by np means equal to that of the same courses at the Scotch Universities; that consequently many subjects treated in detail at the latter, cannot be so fully investigated as the former —Let the superior merit as a place of teaching at the Scotch Universities be what it will, the English graduates go there; so that I con- tend for it, that the fellows of the College (those who come to be candidates in order to be fellows hereafter^ have all the advantages that the people educated at the Scotch Universities have, besides that of the preliminary education. 182. That cannot comprehend all who are educated at Oxford and Cambridge, but a certain number?—I believe they universally go elsewhere: Paris some of them will go to; but there is an interval between the two degrees at Cambridge and that at Oxford, in which they may be absent. I went to Edinburgh for two years, between the Bachelor’s degree and the Master’s degree. 183. Are not the examinations at Edinburgh, previous to graduating, conducted with great strictness ?—I never was present at an examination of that kind ; but some of the persons who have passed there, have been rejected at the College. I should guess they were not carried on with great strictness. 184. Are the persons who present themselves to the College for a licence, examined as to their knowledge of midwifery?—Not as to the practice of mid- wifery, perhaps; but they are expected to know the diseases of women and chil- dren : the very act of delivery is not considered as falling within the province of the physician, therefore they are not questioned upon that 5 but the diseases of women and children they are competent to speak to. 185. Are they invariably examined as to tbeir knowledge of the diseases of women and children ?—Most undoubtedly, they are liable to be examined gene- rally ; every censor puts such questions as will satisfy his own mind best, as well as the president. 186. Is it understood that a candidate will be rejected, who comes to his exa- mination uninformed upon the subject of midwifery ?—I consider that he would be liable to be rejected for the want of knowledge upon that subject, as well as any other connected with the healing art. 187. Are the candidates for a licence examined as to their knowledge of the principles of surgery ?—The principles of surgery come under the head of ana- tomy and pathology, and therefore the}^ are examined upon those points; upon the practice of surgery they are not examined. 188. You have stated that those who solicit of the College a licence as extra licentiates, are not examined by the censors, but by the president and elects ^—Yes, the president and three elects. 189. Upon what subjects are they examined?—They are examined in the same manner, in anatomy, physiology, pathology, and the practice of physic. 190. Do you mean that the examination of those who are candidates for being extra](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28406680_0001_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
