Report on the final examinations in medicine, surgery, and midwifery of the University of Glasgow / by the visitor, Dr. Donald Macalister, and the inspector, Dr. G.F. Duffey, appointed by the General Medical Council.

  • MacAlister, Donald, 1854-1934.
Date:
[1894]
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Credit: Report on the final examinations in medicine, surgery, and midwifery of the University of Glasgow / by the visitor, Dr. Donald Macalister, and the inspector, Dr. G.F. Duffey, appointed by the General Medical Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Examiners in all attended. The marks assigned to the Candi- dates in each subject were read out by the Secretary and taken down by the Examiners, those who received at least 50 per cent, throughout being forthwith noted as passed. It was explained that, in the case of a Candidate whose mark was near but below this limit in any subject, his other marks being sufficient, a vote of the Examiners might be taken as to whether his deficient mark should be raised to 50 per cent., so that he might pass on the whole. The case did not arise in this form ; but two Candidates who had received 48 marks in Medical Jurisprudence were by the Examiners in that subject raised to 50, one before the meet- ing, and one at the meeting with the assent of the Board. The effect was that the first of the two, who had an average mark of 56 in the other subjects, was passed on the whole Examination ; while the other, who had an average mark of less than 55 in the remaining subjects, but had obtained only 37 in Clinical Medicine, was remitted in Medicine only. Had he been deemed to fail in tioo subjects [see p. 6), he would have been rejected on the whole Examination. Other apparently exceptional cases were as follows: A Candidate with 45 in Medicine and 80 in Clinical Medicine was remitted in Medicine ; another with 52 and 46 in Surgery and Clinical Surgery respectively, and 47 in Pathology, was remitted in Surgery only, though according to the strict rule he should have been rejected; another with 48 in Surgery and 45 in Clinical Surgery, and 49 in Pathology, was in like manner remitted in Surgery only. One Candidate with 48 in Surgery, and another with 49 in Clinical Surgery, and good marks in the other subjects, were allowed to pass by general consent. The rule (p. 6) limit- ing remission in one subject to Candidates who obtain at least 55 per cent, in the other subjects was not strictly enforced in all cases. Thus one man was remitted in Medicine (48 marks), whose average mark in the other subjects was only 52. RESULTS. Of the one hundred and thirty-four Candidates entered for the Examination, eight did not present themselves for any por- tion of it. Of the remaining one hundred and twenty-six,