Graduate medical education in the United States / by Sir Humphry Rolleston and H.J. Waring.

  • Rolleston, Humphry Davy, Sir, 1862-1944.
Date:
[1920?]
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Credit: Graduate medical education in the United States / by Sir Humphry Rolleston and H.J. Waring. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    With the Writers * Compliments. K Reprinted from the British Medical Journal, 1930, i, pp. 833-U. GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES. BY Sir HUMPHRY ROLLESTON, K.C.B., M.D., F.R.C.P., EMERITUS PHYSICIAN, ST. GEORGE’S HOSPITAL! PRESIDENT OP THE ROYAL SOCIETY OP MEDICINE ; AND H. J. WARING, M.S., F.R.C.S., SURGEON TO ST. BARTHOLOMEW’S HOSPITAL. A recent visit to America, as representatives of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, in response to the invitation of the National Board of Medical Examiners to visit their examinations, afforded full opportunities of in¬ specting the chief medical schools. This experience has impressed upon our minds that graduate education is attracting much serious attention, that steps with this aim in view are being actively pushed forward, and, further, that the direction in which the most important developments are occurring is different from that in this country. In Great Britain graduate or post-graduate1 teaching is mainly arranged for men in general practice who wish to keep up to date, and consists in revision or “ refresher ” courses of comparatively short duration, or in attendance on the clinical practice of their old schools. In the United States graduate education is divided into (1) short courses, much on the same lines as the post¬ graduate teaching as usually understood in this country, and (2) a form of advanced and intensive education lasting one to three years, and aiming, as its finished product, at rendering a man fully qualified to practise medicine or surgery in the highest or most specialized branches, or to undertake research or teaching. It is to this form of graduate education that some of the more progressive American schools are paying great attention, and it is for facilities of this kind that American graduates coming to this country may in the future be expected to make inquiry. As this does not appear to be generally recognized in this country it may be well briefly to describe this form of graduate education in America. 1It might perhaps be convenient to follow the University of Minnesota in confining the adjective post-graduate to the revision or refresher courses taken some considerable time after graduation, and to use graduate for education received shortly after graduation and as a continuation of undergraduate study. [210/20]