Report of the Statistical Committee of the General Medical Council, containing a summary of statistics regarding medical students registered as such in the year 1871 ...

Date:: 1885

Credit: Report of the Statistical Committee of the General Medical Council, containing a summary of statistics regarding medical students registered as such in the year 1871 ... 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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$]2 Time takon to qiuUify. ■Number of Students qualifj-ing iinder the |)rescriljed time. lu oue year. lu two years. Average interval. Antedated cases. VI. Various Tim us taken hy thk Stddents of 1871 to Qualify AND THE AvEHAGIi InTBUVAL. 1. We next proceed to consider the Interval of Time between the Date of Registration as Student aud the Date of First Qualifi- cation. This we find to vary from oue year to 13 years, as shown in Table I. (p. 17.) 2. Now it will be at once observed that 33 of the Students qualified in less than the prescribed time—three years being the lowest possible interval in accordance with the Medical Council's Recommendatiom {e.g., from beginning of 1871 to end of 1874). An attempt has been made to see whether this can be explained by reference to the process of antedating. But although 27 out of the 1253 were granted this indulgence, of whom 21 have become registered Practitioners (17 with double, and four with single Qualifications), only seven of the number belonged to the above- mentioned 33. 3. Of the 14 qualifying in one year from registration, one Scotch and one Irish Student qualified in England, three Scotch Students and three Iiush qualified in Scotland, and six Irish Students qualified in Ireland. 4. Of the 19 qualifying in two years from registration, one English Student, three Scotch, and three Irish qualified in Scotland, and 12 Irish Students qualified in Ireland. 5. The AVERAGE interval between the Date of Registration as Student and the Date of First Qualification was ^^-yH) ^ 4.903 years, viz. :— For Students registered iu England, 4 99 years. „ „ „ Scotland, 5-06 „ „ „ „ Ireland, 4-56 „ 6. Now, of the 21 qualified Practitioners who had been allowed to antedate, two were antedated to an earlier month in the same year. Again, the remaining 19 qualified on the average in 321 years from the date of registration as Students, but in 5-21 years from the date granted, their aggregate times being 61 years and 99 years respectively. If, therefore, we deduct these 19, with their aggregate of 61 years, and the 26 non-antedated Students (who managed to qualify in one and two yt.ars),$