Additional hints respecting the improvement of the system of medical instruction followed in the University of Edinburgh : humbly submitted to the consideration of the patrons and professors of that institution / [by John Thomson].

  • Thomson, John, 1765-1846.
Date:
1826
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Credit: Additional hints respecting the improvement of the system of medical instruction followed in the University of Edinburgh : humbly submitted to the consideration of the patrons and professors of that institution / [by John Thomson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    other accompaniments of a crowd ; and to the comparative desertion of the other Medical Wards, in which the Students, except the brief occasional reports dictated by the Physician to his Clerk, receive no instructions by which their observa¬ tion or studies may be guided, you will acknowledge that the Patients would be greatly benefited by a system which should occasion a more equable diffusion of the students through the different wards of the Hospital. If the Physicians of the Royal Infirmary were provided with Assistants who should relieve them of a share of their labours, and encouraged to deliver Courses of Clinical Lec¬ tures, the field of practical observation would be greatly widened to the Medical School of Edinburgh, and a reci¬ procity of interests and duties would be produced between the Phvsicians and the Students, which could not fail to prove highly beneficial to the latter; whilst the admission of these Courses of Lectures by the Colleges of Surgeons, and the other public Medical Boards, as qualifying for examina¬ tion before them, would secure their becoming a source of fair remuneration to the Physicians. And as the Infirmary would naturally become, what most continental Hospitals at present are, the source from which Professors would be chosen to teach the higher departments of Practical Medi¬ cine in the University, the Medical Officers of that esta¬ blishment might look forward to the ultimate enjoyment of those peculiar and higher privileges which Universities re¬ serve for their own Members,