Health.

  • Great Britain. Central Office of Information. Reference Division.
Date:
1969
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    medical administrators are also eligible. The senior fellowships and visiting professorships are comparatively rare awards for established medical teachers. During 1966-67 52 medical scholars, 29 fellows and 8 senior fellows from developing Commonwealth countries held awards in Britain; and at Ist April 1968, 41 senior fellowships and 128 fellowships had been awarded under the new scheme. Another group of postgraduate medical trainees consists of doctors who, having already reached a marked degree of competence in their own field, come to Britain to bring themselves up to date in their own techniques or to widen their experience. The majority receive ‘ordinary’ awards under the various regional programmes of technical assistance; however, some receive ‘British Academic Fellowships in Medicine’. Twenty-five of these special bursaries were created by the Government, following a recommendation of the Working Party on Medical Aid to the Developing Countries in 1962 (see p. 3); they attract the maximum stipends and allowances, and are generally limited to one year’s study. British Council The British Council’s medical work is guided by its medical advisory panel, which consists of a number of distinguished members of the profession. It maintains offices and centres, mainly in university cities but covering the whole country, to provide services for overseas visitors and students. It is responsible either wholly or in part for the administration of scholarship or training schemes financed from British Government sources, such as the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan, the Foreign and Com- monwealth University Interchange Schemes, Commonwealth Education Co-operation (CEC) and the council’s own scholarships and bursaries. It also administers the fellowships, tenable in Britain, awarded by the UN Specialised Agencies, e.g. WHO. This responsibility includes placing in uni- versities and other institutions of higher education many of the postgraduate scholars and study fellows who come to Britain under the various official schemes. In the medical field, however, the council for the most part places only its own scholars and bursars, other medical students being placed by the British Medical Postgraduate Federation, the Ministry of Health and Social Security, or the Association of Commonwealth Universities. Undergraduate Training In June 1967 there were 865 overseas students studying in medical and den- tal faculties in British universities for a first degree. Since 1964, the ODM has used CEC funds to enable some of the most promising pre-clinical students from the University of the West Indies medical school to come to Britain to study for degrees in basic medical sciences, Training Nurses and Midwives Over 16,700 student and pupil nurses and midwives from overseas, of whom some 15,000 are from Commonwealth countries, were training in Britain in 1967. The great majority come to Britain unsponsored by their