Minutes of meeting, Wednesday, June 24, 1868 [- Monday, July 6, 1868] / General Council of Medical Education and Registration.

  • General Medical Council (Great Britain). Session (1868)
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[1868?]
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Credit: Minutes of meeting, Wednesday, June 24, 1868 [- Monday, July 6, 1868] / General Council of Medical Education and Registration. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OBSEEVATIONS OF THE EOYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON. 1. With regard to the Preliminary Examination, the General Medical Council having recommended in 1859 That the Examin- ation in General Education be eventually left entirely to the Examining Boards of National Educational Bodies recognized by the Medical Council, the College has, in accordance with that recommendation, discontinued the Preliminary Examination, ac- cepting in lieu thereof a testamur of proficiency in General Education given by any of the Bodies recognized by the Medical Council. 2. In reference to the paragraph at page 4, relative to the mode of conducting the Professional Examinations, the College is of opinion that the Committee has been misled by the Eeport of the Visitors, printed at page 8 of the Eeports for 1866-67, which states—>The examination of candidates by a single Examiner, without any colleague or assessor, appears to us to be open to obvious objection. The College desires to state that its Examin- ations are not so conducted, but that every candidate is always examined on each subject by two Examiners; and the College is not satisfied that the suggestion of the Committee would be an improvement, viz., that the two Examiners should always be present at the same table. 3. The College has already made a change in the mode of conducting its Anatomical Examinations, and thus anticipated the suggestion of the Committee on this point. 4. As regards the recommendation of the Committee that separate decisions should be given in the Written, Oral, and Clinical Examinations, the College begs to state that the final decision in each case has always been framed with special reference