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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    which a fee of lo s. shall be paid by each person so registered. And that to the register should afterwards be regularly added, the names of all persons who shall receive letters testimonial, as after explained, of the fitness to practise as physicians, surgeons and general practitioners ; and that for such registration should be paid the sum of 5 l. in the case of a physician or fellow of the College of Surgeons, and of 2 l. in the case of a general practitioner. All such fees should be applied towards defraying the expenses of this Act. The register to be formed on the plan of a specimen submitted to the Committee of the House of Commons in 1847, by the registrar of the College of Physicians. [These two clauses agreed to, subject lo the observation annexed to clause I.—R. C. S., I.] And all persons desirous of being continued on the register, should be required to send their names and residences to the Council annually, but without the payment of additional fees. [Agreed to.— R. C. S., I.] The register to be received as evidence in courts of law. [Agreed to. R. C. S., I.] IV. That those persons should be entitled to be registered as general practitioners, who shall be enrolled as members of the Royal College of General Practitioners within one year from its first incorporation, according to the provisions of a Charter which has been prepared for that College ; and that those persons should afterwards be entitled to be so registered who, having attained the age of 22 years, shall have received letters testimonial of their fitness to practise as general practitioners, from the examining Board of the Royal College of General Practitioners, and who shall also have been examined and admitted as members of the Royal College of Surgeons. [Agreed to, subject to the observation annexed to clause I.—R. C. S., 1.] That those persons shall be entitled to be registered as surgeons, who shall have been admitted as fellows or members by the Royal College of Surgeons. That the members of the College of Surgeons who dispense medicines, or supply medicines to their patients, shall be required to enrol themselves in the College of General Practitioners, and to be registered as surgeons and general practitioners ; and after the passing of the Act, members of the Royal College of Surgeons shall not be registered as surgeons, unless they be also admitted as members of the Royal College of Geneial Practitioners, and registered both as surgeons and general practitioners. [Council is of opinion that if the licentiate of this College (equivalent to member of London College) be obliged to submit to an examination, in addition to that of this College, in order to entitle him to be constituted and registered as a general practitioner, it should be restricted to an exami- nation by the Apothecaries’ Company, upon the subjects of Botany, Chemistry and Pharmacy, and such licentiate, when registered as a general practitioner, should not be permitted to recover charges for compounding the prescriptions of other practitioners.—R. C. S., I. j That those persons should be entitled to be registered as physicians, who shall have been admitted as members of the Roy al College of Physicians, according lo the provisions of a new Charter which has been prepared for the College of Physicians, and has also been submitted to the Government, which Charter it is expedient should be granted to the College of Physicians. [Agreed to.—R. C. S., I.] That the cases of persons, who have been engaged in practice prior to the passing of the Act, without being members of any corporate body in the profession, should be referred to the college of the department in which they have practised respectively, for special investigation of their claims to be admitted to register. [Agreed to, subject to the observations annexed to Clause 1.—R. C. S., I.] V. That the members of each class of the profession, registered in each of the three kinsdoms respectively, should be entitled to be registered and to practise reciprocally in eitlTer of the three kingdoms as physicians, surgeons or general practitioners, as the case may be, provided the education and examinations of each class respectively be assimilated and regulated by a certain standard common to each class; and provided that, previous to •egistration, they be enrolled in the college appropriated to their class, in the country in which they practise. [Agreed to.—R. C. S., I.] VI. That the Council shall be empowered to allow or disallow any new bye-law which shall be made by either of the colleges. [Agreed to.—R. C. S., I.] Also, to cause a register lo he made of medical and surgical students, and to make such dispensing regulations as shall seem fit, in favour of those students who shall have com- menced their professional studies before the passing of the Act. [Agreed to.—R. C. S., I.] Also to call for returns respecting examinations, and fees for letters testimonial, and admission into the respective colleges; and to take such other measures as may be necessary, in order to assimilate as nearly as possible the education, examinations and fees for each class of the profession respectively, in each ol the three kingdoms. And that the Council should be empowered, in any case in which it should appear to be necessary, in order to secure efficiency and uniformity of examinations, to depute one or more of its members to be present at the examinations of any of the colleges; provided the members of the Council so deputed be medical practitioners, and of the same class in the profession as the college to be so visited ; and if upon the report of such visitor, or otherwise, the Council should be of opinion that its regulations are not complied with by any examining body, that it should be lawful for the Council to refuse to register, upon the testimonials of the body so in default, until the same be amended to the satisfaction of the Council. [Agreed to.—R.C. S., I.] That