Third report from the Select Committee on Medical Registration and Medical Law amendment : together with the minutes of evidence and appendix.

  • Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Medical Registration and Medical Law Amendment.
Date:
1848
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    have practised medicine for at least Twelve years, and shall have been examined by the Royal College of Physicians of England, and in each of the foregoing cases shall have received letters testimonial from the examining college of his being duly qualified to practise as a physician, and shall have been admitted as a fellow or member of such college; and no person shall be entitled to be received for examination for the purpose of being so registered as a physician upon a foreign degree in medicine, unless the Royal College of Physicians in England, Scotland or Ireland shall give him a special certifi- cate, to be laid before and approved by the Medical Council, that they have made inquiry into the manner in which such degree was conferred, and have ascertained that it has been granted, after due examination, and upon satisfactory certificates of previous study, including residence and study at the seat of one or more universities, during at least Three years, one of them, at least, being at the university by which the degree is granted. That every person, previous to being registered as a physician or surgeon under ibis Act, shall be required to enrol himself as a fellow or member of the Royal College of Physicians, or as a fellow or member or licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons, from which be shall have received his letters testimonial as physician or surgeon ; and every such physician and surgeon who shall afterwards remove from that part of the United Kingdom in which he obtained bis letters testimonial, shall be required, if he shall practise as a physician or surgeon in any other part of the said United Kingdom, to enrol himself as a feilow or member of the Royal College of Physicians, or as a fellow or member or licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons, of that part of the United Kingdom to which he shall so remove for the purpose of practising there, according to the nature of his testimonials, and in each case shall be entitled to be so admitted and enrolled, without further examination, on payment of the like fees of admission, and on con.plying with the same conditions as are required of other fellows, members or licen- tiates of the said colleges respectively; and every physician or surgeon who, upon such removal, shall fail so to enrol himself, shall he struck off the register, and shall not be restored until he shall have so enrolled himself, and shall have paid such penalty for his default as to the Medical Council shall seem lit, not exceeding Five Pounds for each calendar month during which he shall have been so in default; and all such penalties shall he applied towards defraying the expenses of this Act. That the cases of persons who have been engaged in practice, prior to the passing of the Act, without being members of any corporate bodj- in the profession, shall he referred to the college of the department in which they have practised respectively, lor special investigation of their claims to be admitted to register. That the said several colleges and universities shall, from time to time, when required by the Medical Council, prepare, and lay before the said Council, a scheme or schemes of the course of study and particulars of the examination to he gone through by all persons applying to be examined by such colleges and universities respectively, and of the fees to be taken by the said several colleges and universities respectively ; and the 6aid Council shall he empowered to make from time to time such changes in any of the schemes so laid before them as to the said Council shall seetn expedient ; and the said Council shall endeavour to procure, as far as is practicable and convenient, that the qualifications and fees for being registered as physician, surgeon, or general practitioner respectively, shall be uniform throughout the said United Kingdom, for which purpose the tees of examination and fees of admission shall be kept distinct by each of the said coll eges and universities; Provided always, that no change shall be made by ihe said Co unci] in any scheme of the course of study or particulars of examination, unless notice shall have been given at a previous meeting of the Council liolden not less than Fourteen days before the meeting, at which the motion for such change shall be made, that at such meeting the course of study or particulars of examination, as the ca»e may he, will he taken into consideration; and the principal secretary of the Council shall forthwith send a copy of the notice so given to every member of the Council. That no bye-law to be made by any of the Royal Colleges of Physicians or Surgeons of England, Scotland or Ireland respectively, or by the Royal College of General Prac- titioners of England, shall be of any force until a copy thereof, sealed with a seal of the same college, shall have been laid before and approved by the said Medical Council. Physicians and Surgeons to belong to a College of the country in which they practise. Registry of special cases. Qualifications and fees. Restriction and bye-laws. U U 3