Plea for a reform of the University teaching in Scotland : submitted to the Scottish Universities Commission / by James Finlayson.
- Date:
- 1890
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Plea for a reform of the University teaching in Scotland : submitted to the Scottish Universities Commission / by James Finlayson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![Y. Attendance at a Lunatic Asylum where Clinical instruction and demonstrations are given : Three months. YI. Practical Midwifery.—“ Attendance for three months on the indoor practice of a Lying-in Hospital, or presence at not less than twelve labours, at least three of which must be conducted personally by the candidate under the direct super- vision of a Registered Practitioner.” (See Glasgow University Ordinance, of 28th May 1889, Calendar for 1889-90, p. 371. This is in accordance with the General Medical Council’s re- coin menclation.) [Any great accumulation of practical classes is to be avoided, and so this list is limited to the above subjects. Instruction in Vaccination and in Practical Pharmacy may be secured by insisting on certificates from registered medical practitioners in the one case, and from registered pharmaceutical chemists in the other; so-called “ classes ” in these two subjects have not proved such a success as to warrant their being instituted as compulsory. Instruction in sucli specialties as Eye, Ear, Throat, and Skin diseases may be safely left to be ensured by thoroughly practical examinations, without specifying the conditions of study ; enforc- ing such conditions definitely, really tends to hamper practical instruction, from the accumulation of students at one time in a class. The specialties named are all particularly well adapted for the application of practical tests. Of course, they should be specified as coming under the department of Surgery at the examination in the first three cases, and under Medicine in the last; and examiners competent to deal with these subjects should be on the Examining Board.] For the other departments of medical study, at present required by the Ordinances, no great changes seem called for, provided it be understood that one Systematic, or one Practical, or one Tutorial Class, may count equally as representing these subjects. A few changes are, however, generally acknowledged to be desirable. The classes of Materia Medica and Therapeutics should be separated, each having not more than a three months’ course, and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21962066_0038.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
