Introductory address on medical education, with especial reference to the course of study required for the degree of M.D., in the Queen's University, Ireland / by Alexander Fleming, M.D.

  • Fleming, Alexander, 1823-1875.
Date:
1850
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    his superficial and hastily acquired knowledge of facts without principles quickly passes from his mind. Perhaps one of ten has the moral courage and perseverance to commence his studies anew, and ultimately to redeem his past folly; whilst the re- mainder, after two or three ineffectual efforts to restore their knowledge, purchase books of formulae, and sink irretrievably into routine practitioners. This College has endeavoured to secure uniformity of study on the part of the students preparing for the University degree, by submitting them at the end of each year of study to a pass ex- amination on the subjects of the lectures attended by them dur- ing that year. I attach much value to this regulation, and I am glad to be connected with an institution which has been the first in these Islands to take this important step in the improve- ment of medical education. It must be gratifying to the parents of such students to be assured annually of their steady progress in professional knowledge; and, on the other hand, to know that idleness will not pass imchecked by official warning. And let me assure the students themselves, that any trouble which the passing of this examination may occasion will be far more than compensated by the light and cheerful spirit with which they will enter on the following year's labours, when satisfied that they have done justice to those of the past; and they will be enabled to go through their entire curriculum with a healthy self-reliance and certainty of ultimate success, to which medi- cal students are too often strangers. The multiplicity and ex- tent of the subjects on which they have in the end to undergo examination, may well oppress with anxiety even the most diligent, unless assured from time to time, that their studies are being conducted rightly and successfully. Moreover, our stu- dents may safely entertain the hope that good marks obtained at these annual examinations will receive due consideration at the final trials for the degree.
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