Introductory address delivered at the commencement of the medical session at St. Thomas's Hospital, October 1st, 1887 / by R.W. Reid.

  • Reid, Robert William, 1851-1939.
Date:
1887
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Credit: Introductory address delivered at the commencement of the medical session at St. Thomas's Hospital, October 1st, 1887 / by R.W. Reid. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    work from. But I am the last person who should like to see our museum stocked with a series of permanently mounted specimens, illustrating the various organs of the body seriatim, as I feel certain they would tend in the long run to do more harm than good. I say this because I have sometimes heard it said that our museum is poor in regard to its human anatomical collection. Our museum is intended to be simply a collection of teaching specimens, to be used as auxiliaries to lectures, and therefore shown to the student at the discretion of the lecturer. It is not in any way in- tended to vie with the magnificent anatomical collec- tion in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, which being a representative museum, displays the structure of man as it does that of any other form of animal life. There is another very common error made by students, and that is their not realizing the importance of a regular attendance upon the examinations which are held in the various classes, at stated periods, through- out the session. Everybody knows that examinations are disagreeable things, I might almost say necessary evils, but as the student has some day or other to submit to the trying ordeal at the Examination Hall, it is well that he should become accustomed to them as soon as he possibly can. The examinations held in this school are arranged upon the same plan as those the student has to pass before the Examining Board. They are divided into Written and Practical, or vivd voce examinations. Written examinations are very useful in training a student to express in proper order his ideas in writing, but of the two I think that, both from the examiner's and the examinee's point of view, by far the most useful in every
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