On the training of a medical man : being the introductory address delivered at the opening of the winter session of St. Mungo's College, Glasgow, 22nd October, 1890 / by Henry E. Clark.

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[1890?]
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Credit: On the training of a medical man : being the introductory address delivered at the opening of the winter session of St. Mungo's College, Glasgow, 22nd October, 1890 / by Henry E. Clark. 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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    ON THE TRAINING OF A MEDICAL MAN. Being the Introdactory Address delivered at the opening of the Winter Session of St. Mungo's College, Glasgow, 22nd October, 1890. By henry E. CLARK, Dean of the Medical Faculty and Professor of Anatomy in the College. But here the main skill and groundwork will be to temper them such lectures and explanations upon every opportunity as may lead and draw them in willing obedience, inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue, stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God and famous to all ages. —John AIilton, Letter on Education. It is now eleven years since it was my privilege to deliver the introductory address at the opening of the M^inter Session of the Royal Infirmary School of Medicine. I then took as my theme Medical Education and Qualification, and if I now return to the same subject, it may perchance seem as if one idea, and one alone possess me. The action of the General Medical Council in proposing the extension of the curriculum to five years, gives, however, much food for refiection, and the severe strictures on our present method of teaching which formed so outstanding a feature of Mr. Lawson Tait's address in Surgery at the Birminghan meeting of the British Medical Association, as well as the address by the president. Dr. Wade, necessitate some reply on the part of those engaged in the work of teaching students, and of those on whom is imposed the duty of guarding the portals of the profession. That we have not reached ideal perfection in our methods of training and examining those who enter the medical pro- fession, is a truism which we need take no pains to discuss and make no attempt to refute. We claim to be only mortal, and subject to such conditions and limitations as that mortality involves; and, while contending educational theorists fight over the relative advantages of scientific and practical training, must be content to fully satisfy neither party, and must be prepared to find our methods criticised and our motives