Observations on the preparatory education of candidates for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, in the Scottish universities ... / [by John Thomson].

  • Thomson, John, 1765-1846.
Date:
1826
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Credit: Observations on the preparatory education of candidates for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, in the Scottish universities ... / [by John Thomson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    liave been lately enacted by the Universities of St An¬ drew’s and Aberdeen. The differences in the conditions on which Medical De¬ grees are at present granted by the different Universities of Scotland, is a circumstance which cannot fail to attract your notice; and the public have reason to hope, that one of the great benefits to be derived from the very import¬ ant commission with which you have been entrusted, will be the adoption of a more uniform system of Medical Edu¬ cation throughout the Scottish Universities. It is. only under a system in which an equal extent of qualifications for a Medical Degree shall be required by each of the Universities, that that fair and generous compe¬ tition between these Institutions can be looked for, w hich it is so important for the interests of the public should be ^ maintained. Indeed, it may be doubted whether one of the greatest obstacles which has hitherto retarded the introduction of improvements in the courses of study required for obtain¬ ing a Medical Degree from the different Universities of Scotland, may not have arisen partly from w^ant of cordial co-operation among these Institutions in the advancement of the important objects for which they have been found¬ ed, and partly from the apprehension which each Univer¬ sity has respectively entertained, that, to raise the stand¬ ard of qualifications required of its Graduates, might, in