Remarks on the new medical act, as affecting the curriculum of the student : being the substance of an address to students delivered at the opening of the medical session, 1861-62 / by George Buchanan.

  • Buchanan, George, 1827-1905.
Date:
1861
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Credit: Remarks on the new medical act, as affecting the curriculum of the student : being the substance of an address to students delivered at the opening of the medical session, 1861-62 / by George Buchanan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    the Privy Council can be brought to see the impolicy of the proposal, reverse the resolutions of the Commis- sioners, and leave at least one University which will grant its degrees to any well-informed and well-tested candidate, who can produce certificates of having been educated in accordance with the requirements of the General Council of Education under the Medical Act. With regard to other Universities, I am confident that a more liberal policy would be to their own benefit; for I believe that the restrictions at present in force will have the effect of diminishing the number of their graduations, rather than of increasing the number of their students. Indeed the ordinances of the Commissioners evi- dently contemplate some relaxation of University exclusiveness. For one of the clauses provides that candidates for graduation may, to the extent of four out of the departments of medical study required, attend, in such year or years as may be most con- venient to them, the Lectures of teachers of Medicine in extra-university schools. Again one entire session out of the four required, may be taken in certain recognized extra-university schools; and lastly, attend- ance during at least six months on the Medical or Surgical Practice of a General Hospital, and during the same period on a Course of Practical Anatomy, may be reckoned as one session. The carrying out of the details of the Ordinances is committed to the University court, which also has the power of recog- nizing the lectures in extra-university schools—and