A letter to the Provost of Oriel, on university extension / by Charles Daubeny.

  • Daubeny, Charles Giles Bridle, 1795-1867.
Date:
1865
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Credit: A letter to the Provost of Oriel, on university extension / by Charles Daubeny. 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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    as apprentices, with some general practitioner in the Vaca- tions. It is to this description of students that my remarks principally are addressed, for with respect to the wealthier members of the community, whose tastes lead them to select this profession, I know of no change necessary for inducing them to acquire at the University the elements of a sound and complete medical education, excepting one grounded upon a proposition contained in another pamphlet of Dr. Chase’s, published some years ago, and entitled “ The Volun- tary System applied to University Examinations,” namely, that candidates for a Degree shoidd be permitted to pass each Examination as soon as they find themselves prepared for it. This indulgence I would extend to the Responsions and Moderations only, thus permitting the Medical Student to commence his scientific studies at as early a period as he pleased, upon his giving proofs of that classical and mathe- matical knowledge which the University has laid down as the foundation of a liberal education, but at the same time not abridging the period of his residence within the Uni- versity. The same indulgence would confer a great boon also upon the poorer students, enabling them, if they came up from school primed with the requisite amount of classical and mathematical knowledge, to devote the whole period of their Undergraduate life to the scientific studies connected with their future profession, and thus to go up to London at twenty or one-and-twenty, with minds sufficiently developed and informed to reap full advantage from the Clinical Lectures and instruction afforded at the great London Hospitals. And I am quite sure, that even if by so doing their en- trance into practice were deferred till the age of three or four- and-twenty, they would ultimately be gainers professionally, by the better teaching and more sound knowledge which they had thus acquired. Some of my medical friends appear to think that I have uuderrated in my Pamphlet the amount of general know- ledge required from a London Medical Student, before entering upon his professional examination. It may be right, therefore, to state, for the information of the public, that at the College of Surgeons in London, in 1866, English Grammar and Composition, Arithmetic, Geography, History, and the first book of Euclid will be required, in addition to that knowledge of Latin which is tested by the translation of a passage in the fix'st book of Caesar’sCom- mentaries.” The other subjects, on which papers are set in the preliminary examination, are not compulsory in the case
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