An account of the system of clinical instruction and examination followed in the Grant Medical College at Bombay, with remarks on medical education / by C. Morehead, M.D. (Principal, and Professor of Medicine.).

  • Charles Morehead
Date:
1850-1859
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Credit: An account of the system of clinical instruction and examination followed in the Grant Medical College at Bombay, with remarks on medical education / by C. Morehead, M.D. (Principal, and Professor of Medicine.). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AN ACCOUNT OF THE SYSTEM OF CLINICAL IN- STRUCTION AND EXAMINATION FOLLOWED IN THE GRANT MEDICAL COLLEGE AT BOMBAY, WITH REMARKS ON MEDICAL EDUCATION. The importance of an efficient system of Medical education, with reference both to the recent estabUshment of Medical Colleges in British India and the state of the Medical Profession in the United Kingdom, renders it very desirable that there should be no backwardness, on the part of those who have had opportunities of dispassionately considering the subject, in communicating, for the information of others, the result of their observation, reflection, and experience. It will, it is believed, be universally admitted, that no system of Medical education can pretend to efficiency or completeness which does not include, as one of its essential conditions, a sys- tematic and carefully conducted plan of Medical and Surgical Clinical instruction; and that no plan can be so characterized which does not require from each Student at least two years' regular and attentive attendance in well-arranged Medical and Surgical Clinical Wards, conducted by competent and pains-taking Clinical instructors, in an hospital sufficiently large to command a varied selection of medical and surgical diseases. Each Stu- dent should, moreover, for a certain period, be employed in the careful and assiduous performance of the duties of Clinical Clerk and Surgical Dresser. But it is not sufficient that well-arranged systems of instruction be laid down for Medical schools. The protection of the commu- nity, and the character of the Profession, require that the test of