Report by the Examination-Committee on the Report by the visitors of primary examinations (Dr. Windle and Professor J. Campbell Brown) on the examination in chemistry, physics, and biology, of the Conjoint Examining Board in England of the Royal College of Physicians of London and the Royal Colege of Surgeons of England, held in July-August, 1902, together with remarks by the bodies inspected (May, 1903).

  • General Medical Council. Examination Committee.
Date:
1903
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Credit: Report by the Examination-Committee on the Report by the visitors of primary examinations (Dr. Windle and Professor J. Campbell Brown) on the examination in chemistry, physics, and biology, of the Conjoint Examining Board in England of the Royal College of Physicians of London and the Royal Colege of Surgeons of England, held in July-August, 1902, together with remarks by the bodies inspected (May, 1903). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ELEMENTARY BIOLOGY. Method of Examination. The Examination in this subject is conducted in accordance with a schedule, a copy of which is appended to this Report. It is conducted entirely by the oral method, no paper being set and no practical work required from the Candidates. There are two tables in the Examination room, at each of which two Examiners preside. Each Candidate is under examination for fifteen minutes, at the end of which period a bell rings and the Examination comes to an end, even in the middle of a question or answer. The Examiners take it in turns to put questions to the Candidates, and the Examiner who is not thus engaged makes notes, on a special form, of the main subjects examined upon. At the end of the examination of each Can- didate these notes are referred to, a mark agreed upon, and his fate decided. The Candidates are known only by numbers, and we understand that arrangements are made by the Secretary, when deciding the order and tables of Candidates, which prevent any Student being examined by his own teacher. Of the order and organisation we cannot speak too highly. Everything worked by the clock and went like clockwork. On the tables were microscopes, dissections, mounted and unmounted, skeletons, &c., and the Examination was almost entirely conducted on these objects. Amongst the specimens shown under the microscopes were sections of leaves and stems, of hydra and lumbricus, an ovum, frog’s blood, bacteria, &c. Amongst the mounted specimens were various dissections of the dog-fish, including the brain and the vascular system, dissec- tions of the frog and the earthworm. It is hardly necessary to say that all these were first-rate specimens. Of unmounted specimens we noticed skulls of the dog-fish and frog, portions of the skeletons of both these forms, the ovisac of the dog- fish, &c. As the Candidates to be examined are not separated from those who have yet to undergo examination, it is obvious that a constant change of specimens is required if later Candidates are not to profit by the experience of those who preceded them.