Report presented to the Metropolitan Counties Branch of the British Medical Association / by the Committee appointed to consider the subject of the education of the general practitioner of medicine [...] signed cy C.Macnamara for the Committee.

  • Macnamara, C.
Date:
1879
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    It EPOR T PRESENTED TO THE METROPOLITAN COUNTIES BRANCH OF TOE BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, BY THE COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO CONSIDER THE SUBJECT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PRACTITIONER OF MEDICINE. A General Meeting of the Metropolitan Counties Branch was held on 25th June, 1S79, to discuss the im- portant subject of the professional education of the General Practitioner of medicine. More than seventy members and visitors were present. The subject was introduced by the President of the Branch, Dr. Andrew Clark, who expressed his opinion that the present system of education was defective in that it did not sufficiently provide for the instruction of the student in ordinary practical matters, and that too much attention was re- quired to be devoted to the acquirement of knowledge of comparatively little importance to the general practitioner. The meeting was addressed by Dr. Semple, Dr. J. Rogers, Mr. C. Heath, Dr. Crisp, Dr. Farquharson, Dr. Burney Yeo, Mr. Thomas Smith, Mr. J. Wood, Dr. Silver, Dr. Edis, Mr. Sibley, Dr. R. J. Lee, Dr. F. T. Roberts, Dr. A. P. Stewart. It was then proposed by Mr. Macnamara, and seconded by Dr. Burney Yeo, that—“A Committee be appointed to collect information from the past and present teachers of medicine and surgery, and from the members of this Asso- ciation, regarding the professional education of general