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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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    24] — No. 12.— THE following Resolutions, prescribing the Period and Course of Study necessary to be observed, in future, by all persons applying for the Licence of the College of Physicians, are extracted from the Report of the Committee, which commenced its Sittings in November, 1830, to consider the subject of Medical Education. That it is expedient that the College should make the details of Medical Education, in future, a subject of express regulation, and further define the nature and extent of the previous studies, which should be considered indispensable for all persons presenting them- selves for examination at the Censors’ Board. That all persons presenting themselves for examination at the Censors’ Board, be required to produce proofs of having studied Medicine during a period of at least five years. That the study of Medicine include the following particulars : Two Courses of at least six months’ duration, of Lectures on Anatomy and Physiology, to be given by regularly licensed Physicians or Surgeons. Two Courses of Dissections and Demonstrations, of at least six months’ duration. Two Courses of Lectures on Chemistry. Two Courses of Lectures of at least six months’ duration,-on the Practice of Physic, to be given by regularly licensed Physicians. Two Courses of Lectures on Materia Medica. One Course of Lectures on Botany. One Course of Lectures on Midwifery. One Course of Lectures on Forensic Medicine. One Course of Lectures on Surgery, to be given by regularly licensed Surgeons, who are, or have been Surgeons to a General Hospital. N. B.—Two Courses of Lectures, of three months duration, are to be considered equi- valent to one of six months. And three years at least of attendance on the Medical Practice of some General Hospital, containing, upon an average, one hundred In-patients, and having a regular establishment of Physicians and Surgeons. That the Courses of Lectures specified above, be attended during the first four years of the prescribed period, and the Hospital Pi’actice during the last three years of that period. That the Censors’ Board shall require from every applicant, before he is examined, satis- factory testimonials that he has fulfilled the Course of Medical Education prescribed by the College. That those who have studied at Foreign Medical Schools, shall produce satisfactory testimonials to the Censors’ Board, of having completed a course of study equivalent to that above enjoined by the College ; provided always, that every such Candidate shall, before examination, have attended, for six months at least, the Physicians’ practice at a General Hospital in Great Britain or Ireland, containing one hundred patients as aforesaid, and shall produce the usual certificate to this effect. That in addition to each examination, as now enjoined by the Statutes, the Censors may ask questions in English, either viva voce, or on paper. — No. 13.— MEMORIAL of Students in Medicine, Members of the two English Universities, to the College of Physicians, London, TO the President and Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians, The Memorial of the undersigned Students of Medicine, who are Members of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Your Memorialists beg to represent that they are members of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and as such, have hitherto considered themselves entitled to look forward to the enjoyment of all the privileges conferred by the existing regulations of the College of Physicians. Your Memorialists have learned from the public journals, that, by the regulations about to be enacted at your College, they will be excluded from partaking in those advantages, in the hope of obtaining which, they have devoted many years to an expensive course ot study. Your
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