Third report from the Select Committee on Medical Registration and Medical Law amendment : together with the minutes of evidence and appendix.
- Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Medical Registration and Medical Law Amendment.
- Date:
- 1848
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Credit: Third report from the Select Committee on Medical Registration and Medical Law amendment : together with the minutes of evidence and appendix. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![1536. This table, intituled, “ Courses of Study for Medical Degrees and r. Licenses,” you understand to have been compiled by Mr. Wood, of the College of Surgeons of Edinburgh ?— Yes. 1537. And at the request of the College, and for purposes connected with inquiries into the state of medical education ? — It is. 1538. And well known and always considered authentic and correct ?—Yes. 1539. You produce this to the Committee ?—I do.—[ The same was delivered in ; vide Appendix, ISo. 2.] 1.540. Then this table expresses shortly, what you might give at greater length in evidence with respect to the course required in the University of Edinburgh ? —Yes, 1.541. And also in the different universities therein named ? —Yes ; there is a note of my own at the bottom, which is necessary for understanding the course of the Edinburgh University. 1542. We understand that you give it with that note ?—With that note. 1543. And it may be printed as a part of your evidence, with the manuscript note?—Yes. 1544. Do you consider the course of education required by the University of Edinburgh to be in itself complete?—In every respect, except in general education. 1545. You think it not sufficient as regards general education; you would wish the requirement to be larger in that respect ?—Yes ; neither in that University nor in any of the universities of Scotland, is it sufficient. 1,546. With reference to the University of Edinburgh, and confining the question to the requirements necessary for the professional degree of doctor of medicine, do you consider the course there quite sufficient ?—I think it is a satisfactory course. 1547. Does the University of Edinburgh in itself supply the means of that course?—It dees. 1548. The school of Edinburgh then is a complete school ?—Complete. 1,549. And one in which all the branches of medical education can be immediately obtained ?—It is. 1.5.50. Is that so in Glasgow ?—There are some important subjects not taught in Glasgow ; namely, clinical medicine and clinical surgery. 1.5.51. Is that owing to the want of opportunities for a school, or owing simply to the want of arrangement?—There is a difficulty in obtaining from the gover- nors of the hospital in Glasgow, such a right for the professors to lecture on clinical medicine and surgery, as exists in Edinburgh. 1,552. Practically the relation or the connexion between the hospitals of Glasgow and the University, is not such as exists in Edinburgh, which enables the University to have the benefit of clinical lectures as part of its academical instruction? - No, I am aware that it is a source of complaint on the part of the University of Glasgow, as I presume the Committee will find, that they have not this opportunity. 1553. Does Aberdeen afford a school ?—Yes. 1,554. In itself a complete school in the town of Aberdeen?—Yes. 1555. Including clinical lectures ?—No; I doubt whether they have yet a complete system of clinical instruction. 15,56. Have they a hospital sufficient to afford it?—They have a hospital of considerable size. Aberdeen is now a very populous city. 1,557. How many beds do you consider necessary to give the opportunity of instruction by a course of clinical lectures?—If there is no selection of patients there would require to be, I think, about 50 beds; if there is a selection, then the clinical instructor is better for having fewer, 30 for instance ; from my own experience as a professor of clinical medicine, 1 would greatly prefer 30 cases properly selected, to having the opportunity of lecturing indiscriminately upon 50, or even 100. 15,58. Properly selected, means having regard to the different diseases?— Selected from a larger number ; that is the plan in the Edinburgh course of clinical instruction. 1559. In the Edinburgh course of clinical instruction, do you confine your lectures to certain beds selected for the purpose? —We have 40 beds, and a general power of selection from the patients daily admitted. 702. A 4 Christison, Es M. D. 9 May 1848. 1560. Forty](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24906803_0013.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
