Reports : 1947 / Middlesex Hospital and Cancer Wing. Middlesex Hospital Medical School.

  • Middlesex Hospital
Date:
1947
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Credit: Reports : 1947 / Middlesex Hospital and Cancer Wing. Middlesex Hospital Medical School. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Medical School (1940-47). Report by the Dean, Dr. H. E. A. Boldero. STUDENTS. The Hospital and Medical School are fully equipped for the theoretical and practical teaching of all the subjects of the Medical Curriculum. Chemistry, Physics and Biology are also taught in preparation for the 1st. M.B. (Rond.). Every effort is made to encourage co-ordination and prevent the division of the curriculum into water-tight compartments. This arrangement ensures that the student, instead of proceeding to the study of the various subjects as if they were isolated and having little or no relation to each other, is taught each subject by professors, lecturers and teachers^ who are instructing medical students only and are in close touch with all the other departments of the school. Under this arrangement not only have students of The Middlesex Hospital obtained the highest honours in examin¬ ations, but they have also been admirably equipped for the practice of medicine and surgery, and to take the fullest advantage of any new knowledge which research may bring to light. Its value to the students and to medicine is obvious, for the teaching of the elementary .subjects is closely connected with that of the clinical subjects. Special classes are available for students proceeding to the higher examinations. Courses of instruction are held for those preparing for the Medical Diplomas in Radiology and for the Primary F.R.C.S. Examination. Laboratory accommodation is provided for original research. All the beds in the Hospital are now available for teaching, as the last stages of repair of war damage have been accomplished. However, association with the Central Middlesex Hospital is being continued and students attend there for a part of their clinical course. RESEARCH WORK AND INVESTIGATIONS. The generous support afforded us during the past year by the Medical Research Council, the British Empire Cancer Campaign, Messrs. Courtaulds Limited, Imperial Chemical Industries Limited, Messrs. Boots Limited and the Ministry of Supply is gratefully acknowledged. UNIVERSITY CHAIRS. Chairs in Clinical Medicine and Clinical Surgery tenable at the Medical School have now been instituted and I have to report with pleasure that the Title of Professor in Clinical Medicine has been conferred on Dr. A. Kekwick, and the Title of Professor in Clincal Surgery on Mr. P. B. Ascroft. I am also very pleased to report the institution of a University Chair in Experimental Biochemistry endowed by Mrs. Philip Hill, in memory of her
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