Summary of Dr Crisp's Carmichael essay on medical reform and medical education : suggestions and conclusions as directed by Mr Carmichael under the three heads.

Edwards Crisp

Date:: [1870]

Credit: Summary of Dr Crisp's Carmichael essay on medical reform and medical education : suggestions and conclusions as directed by Mr Carmichael under the three heads. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$~t>£ naD &ku) Alois'* • ftf&Q SUMMARY 0| PR. CRISP’§ CARMICHAEL ESSAY ON INP’MfeDICAL EDUCATI0N(1867) - CD MEDICAL REFORM A> V * >w 'jr. ‘'r / ... . y ... : ; tf\ SUGGESTIONS AND CONCLUSIONS AS DIRECTED BY MR, CARMICHAEL, UNDER THE THREE HEADS. That the Medical Profession in the United Kingdom, in the Army, Navy, and in the Colonies, is in a most unsatisfactory and disgraceful state, owing to the number of antagonistic licensing bodies that require different cur- ricula and adopt different modes of examination. That the Medical Registration Act, 1858, although it has in some respects tended to produce greater uniformity as regards education and examination, has, by placing these Corporations <on a firmer basis by the licensing of diplomas of all kinds (many of\vj/ch before did not qualify for practice), been positively injurious, by en^uraging the registration and increase of half qualified men and incompetent practitioners. That since the passing of this Act, 1858 (for which the profession has paid about £4^000.), no less than 759 men have been placed on the Register with one qualification. (Up to 1869, £77,959 14 4J). That more than one-fourth of the practitioners in the United Kingdom are practising with only one diploma ; more than 2,000 with the non-medical diploma of the College of Surgeons of England; and more than 600 with the non-surgical diploma of the London Apothecaries’ Company. The re- mainder, holding single diplomas, are generally but inadequately qualified. That in the Army* there are 866 English diplomas, 916 Scotch, and 531 Irish. With English and Irish diplomas, 46 ; English and Scotch, 138 ; Scotch and Irish, 62. That the number of Surgeons in the Army with one qualification is 395, whilst those in the Navy amount to 186. Of these, 195 are members of the College of Surgeons of England only. That out of those practising in the Colonies, the Packet and other services, there are 100 with one qualification only. That there are more than 300 graduates of Edinburgh with this degree only, and that the greater number of these Edinburgh graduates reside out of Scotland. That the graduates of St. Andrew’s amount to more than 1,300; • In addition, in the army, two or more diplomas; English, 179 ; Irish, 80 ; Scotch, 204 ; English and Scotch, 181; English and Irish, 47 ; Scotch and Irish, 02. Navy : one degree English (R.C.S.E.), 89; Irish, 34 ; Scotch, 63 Two or more diplomas: English, 47; Irish, 17 ; Scotch, 86 ; English and Scotch, 62 ; English and Irish, 21; Scotch and Irish, 20. Of the 2,113 army diplomas, the English bear about the proportion of 1 in 23,500 to the population; the Irish, 1 in 1,200; and the Scotch, 1 in 383. Register, 1867. It must be remembered that theso gentlemen have also passed tho Army and Xavv$