An account of the system of clinical instruction and examination followed in the Grant Medical College at Bombay, with remarks on medical education / by C. Morehead, M.D. (Principal, and Professor of Medicine.).

  • Morehead, Charles, 1807-1882.
Date:
1850-1859
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    that he may be ahle to form a clear judgment of the tact and acquirements of the aspirants in diagnosing and treating disease «,t the bedside of the patient. This Report is under the consideration of the Council From this extract, then, it may be learnt that Clinical instruc- tion in Medical Colleges has not yet been so matured as to render further information and suggestion on the subject uncalled for and superfluous. The statement made in the Bengal Report that the mode of practically testing the knowledge of Students followed for the first time by the Examining Board of the London University in November 1852 has to a certain extent been adopted at Bombay, hardly corresponds with the facts recorded in the official reports of the Bombay College, and reproduced in this paper. A com- parison of the method of practical examination in Medicine and Surgery adopted by the University of London, as explained in the London Medical Times and Gazette, with that detailed by the President of the Examining Board at Bombay, will at once rshow that there is little in common between the limited and superficial plan of the former and the lengthened and searching system of the latter. A comparison of dates will, moreover, show that practical -examination in Medicine and Surgery, first followed by the University of London in November 1852, has always existed in ■manipulations and appliances must be gained by actual service in the hos- pital ; and true principles of Medicine can only be acquired by diligent observation in the wards, by careful chemical and microscopical exami- nation of the different textures and fluids, and by constant attention to the microscopical appearances. Books are invaluable as guides to actual obser- vation, and lectures are commendable upon the same grounds—neither aro to be neglected or undervalued by the Student or the Practitioner ; but books and lectures are only the finger-posts to direct our steps ; they do not of themselves constitute the road to the goal which we wish to attain. In thus combining the practical with the theoretical, the University of London has shown itself duly conscious of the true aims and objects of Medical education, aud has afibrdcd an example to all other Examininij Medical Boards.