Views on some social subjects / by Sir Dyce Duckworth, bt.

  • Dyce Duckworth
Date:
[1915]
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Credit: Views on some social subjects / by Sir Dyce Duckworth, bt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to remain with the latter throughout his career. As with the literary, so with the preliminary scientiiic part of your training, both should be accomplished before entering on the direct studies in medicine; and the tendency now, and for the future, is to remove the scientific work from the hospital schools altogether, and to relegate it to late school life or the first academic year in a University. In thus re¬ casting the curriculum the student is set free to devote his whole time and energy to learn¬ ing his profession, and enabled to utilize to the full the opportunities afforded by his medical teachers and his hospital. He has four complete years wherein to do this. If he has properly availed himself in due order of such arrangements, he will find his work easier than it would be otherwise, and he will bring a stronger mental grip and a fuller intelligence to bear on it. Your lines are certainly well laid in this place for a curriculum such as this. I pass on to remark in respect of hospital training, that while we are justly proud of our new hospitals, which secure for the sick all that modern knowledge has supplied in the way of comfort, safety, and skilled nursing, it must be admitted that in some of them we have barely kept pace with the developments in clinical teaching which are now recognized as necessary. The best clinical teachers in England are, as a rule, the busiest men in the profession, and their chairs being unendowed, 4