Remarks on the necessity for a revision of the medical curriculum : made at the Medical Teachers' Association, on Monday, March 16, 1868 / by Walter Rivington.

  • Rivington, Walter, 1835-1897.
Date:
1868
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Credit: Remarks on the necessity for a revision of the medical curriculum : made at the Medical Teachers' Association, on Monday, March 16, 1868 / by Walter Rivington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    qualified to deal with all matters relating to the education of the medical student which stand on neutral ground, I invite the Association to enter upon a systematic consideration of the JNIedical Curriculum, for the specific end of effecting its improvement. If we do this—as I hope we shall—it will, I think, be found very convenient to take each of the two stages into which the Curriculum is divided into consideration separately, and to exhaust the consideration of the first stage before entering into a discussion on the second stage. The resolutions which I have to propose were drawn np chiefly for the pm-pose of lightening the burdens of the student during the first educational stage by the introduction of a better classification of the Curriculum, and the abolition of what a lengthened and anxious consideration has led me to believe are works of supererogation required to be perforaied by the student between the period of his entrance at a hospital and the primary examinations at the Central Boards. In the remarks, therefore, which, with the kind permission and for- bearance of the Society, I wish to make in introducing the few resolutions on the Notice Paper, I will confine myself to the proof that too much is required of the student in the first eighteen months, and to a brief statement of the reasons for the changes which I venture to suggest. During the first eighteen months, or, omitting the vaca- tions, within the space of fifteen months, made up of two winter sessions of six months and one summer session of three months, the student is required to attend the following Courses of Lectui'es:— Two six-month courses on Anatomy, the lectures being given four times a week. Two six-month courses on Physiology, three lectures a week. One six-month course on Chemistry, three lectures a week. One six-month course on Surgery, three lectures a week. One six-month course on Medicine, three lectures a week. One three-month course on Practical Chemistry, occupying one hour or one hour and a half, three times a week. One three-month course on Botany, three lectures a week.