Remarks by the Medical and Surgical Corporations of the United Kingdom on the reports of the Visitors of Examinations 1881-2.

Date:
[1882?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Remarks by the Medical and Surgical Corporations of the United Kingdom on the reports of the Visitors of Examinations 1881-2. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

    12/56 (page 10)
    R. Coll, StJRG. Il£EL, OBSEIWATIONS BY THE ROYAL COLLEGE OE SURGEONS IN IRELAND ON VISITORS’ REPORT. The Council having considered the Visitors’ Report, came to the conclusion that the observations which specially demand a reply from them are :— (1) The remarks upon Clinical Examinations (as con- tained in pages 11, 12, 23, and 24) ; (2) The remarks upon the Examination in Physiology (page 18) ; (3) The remarks upon the Examination in Chemistry and Materia Medica (page 73). Under the head of Clinical Examinations, the Visitors con- clude their remarks by recommending the plan pursued by the Royal College of Surgeons in England, for adoption by other Licensing Bodies ; which consists in bringing to the College such patients as can be safely removed from hospital, to be there submitted to the candidates. Upon this subject the Council cannot agree with the recommendation of the Visitors. They are strongly of opinion that there should be a sufficient variety of cases, and that the Examiners should be instructed to select them previous to the arrival of the candidates at the hospital; that the Clinical Examination should be conducted within the walls of the hospitals, both in the theati’e or other separate room, and in the wards—in the former, cases from the extern department, and patients who can be safely brought from the wards may be advantageously examined, while in the latter a number of im- portant cases, such as erysij)elas, extravasation of urine, acute orchitis, synovitis, &c., could be seen, which would altogether be excluded from the examination if the candidates were not brought into the wards and placed by the patient’s bed-side. It appears, further, to the Council that a grave objection to the method of examining in a place removed from the hospital