A plea for liberty of medical teaching : a letter addressed to the General Council of Medical Education and Registration / by John T. Arlidge.

Date:
1874
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Credit: A plea for liberty of medical teaching : a letter addressed to the General Council of Medical Education and Registration / by John T. Arlidge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ently can, and to pass in these subjects within twelve months after registration, without producing certificates of attendance on a course of lectures on each of them at a recognised medical school. With respect to Botany and Chemistry (excluding Practical Chemistry) it goes still further and allows those sciences to be taken up at the pre- liminary examination. And, finally, with reference to Hospital prac- tice, it accepts certificates of attendance and clinical instruction from hospitals generally which contain a fixed minimum of beds, although without associated schools of a prescribed model. This loosening the bands which have hitherto circumscribed medical education within narrow and arbitrary limits, without tang- ible or sensible reasons, is an event which must exercise a great and most salutary effect upon the whole profession. The names of the distinguished men appended to the Report offer a guarantee for the correctness and excellence of the conclusions arrived at, and for the fulness and fairness with which the whole aspect of medical education has been reviewed. J. T. A.