The state of the medical profession in Great Britain and Ireland / by William Dale.

  • Dale, William
Date:
1875
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Credit: The state of the medical profession in Great Britain and Ireland / by William Dale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    WANT OF UNIFORMITY IN QUALIFICATIONS. Physic Chemistry Mat. Med. Botany Midwifery Hospital Practice Midwife Hospital One course Two courses One course ditto ditto 18 months Practice Pharmacy (by 6 ditto apprenticeship) 36 ditto Prom the above resume, though purposely em- bracing only a portion of the Medical Corporations, it will be evident that the qualifications of the medical men of the present day must widely differ ; and not only so, but there are a number of medical men practising with foreign diplomas, whose qualifications or fitness for practice are wholly unknown, and hence no uniform standard of qualification exists. Dr. Hughes Bennett, in a pamphlet pubhshed some years ago, made some remarks on Medical Education which are still appropriate. He obseiwes— Instead of a uniform and national education for the country at large, the student is still called upon to consider which, out of the multitudinous systems brought before him, he ought to follow, or how he shall so steer his course that, whilst quabfying himself for examination at one Board he does not disqualify himself for examination at another. A contributor to the Medical Press and Circular, following in the same track, observes— The rival- ship of the different Licensing Bodies for the pos- session of the fees, still goes on, each striving to undersell the other in the facibty with which they permit their diplomas to pass from their strong box into the student's pocket; and the result is the lamentable state of ignorance described by Professors
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