Remarks on medical organization and reform, (foreign and English) : with a supplement upon the medical reform question / by Edwin Lee.

Date:
1847
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Credit: Remarks on medical organization and reform, (foreign and English) : with a supplement upon the medical reform question / by Edwin Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    is the order in which attendance upon the medical courses is recommended, but not enforced. 1st. Semestre (half-year). Anatomy, physiology, chemistry. 2nd. Medical physics, hygiene, medical natural history. 3rd. Anatomy, physiology, operative surgery. 4th. Hygiene, medical pathology, pharmacy. 5th. Operative surgery, medical and surgical pathology. 6th. Clinical medicine, chemical surgery, materia me- dica. 7th. Clinical medicine, clinical surgery, medical pathology. 8th. Medical jurisprudence, therapeutics, midwifery. Besides the public lectures delivered by the professors, private courses are given by the agreges, or assistants, who are attached to the faculty and compete for the professor- ships as vacancies occur, as well as by other teachers; and these being more practical and entering more into the de- tails than the former, are of greater service as regards elementary instruction. The students are, moreover, directly superintended by the teacher, who is able to perceive whether the attendance be regular or not, which is impracticable in the larger classes of the professors. In the first Report of the Committee of the Medical Congress the advantage of the separation between the public courses and those of the prepa- ratory lectures is strongly insisted upon, and a free licence for all qualified persons to teach is advocated. From the ranks of the private teachers, says the Report, have arisen many of the most distinguished professors. Private instruction is necessary in order to form and exercise the students, and all qualified persons should have the right to teach, by which an honourable competition is occasioned, which cannot but turn to the advantage of science, and of the pupils. Private in- struction does not supersede that which is official, as it can confer no title to the acquisition of degrees, but it is highly useful as an adjuvant to public instruction.