MEDICAL EDUCATION.
of
The 48th Session of the General Council Medical Education and Registration has been
signalized by tions
the
on
the
passing
subject
of
important
resolu-
of the scientific and pro-
fessional education of medical students, which cannot fail to exercise a very powerful influence on the teaching and training of the future.
principles which uuderlie these resolutions are? ls?, that the term of study should be extended ; 2ml, that the purely scientific subjects ?physics, chemistry, and biology should be completed before the end of the first year, and The
3rd, that the last year should be devoted to clinical study. The medical curriculum has
been extended to five years instead of four, but as the first year is devoted to pure science and may be speut at a school or college in now
which physics, chemistry, and biology and the student's
nation,
and
devoted
to
knowledge
are
is tested
taught,
by
examithe last year of the five must be clinical study, it follows that
as
systematic teaching
the
of medical
subjects
proper
compressed into three years. This necessity will tax the iugeuuity of college author-
must
ities
be
not a
little,
more
especially
lias ordained that systematic subject are uot to be delivered a
week, ami
on not on more
as
the. Council
lectures
on
any
ofteuer than thrice than three subjects
THE INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE.
212
in
[July
a,tic instruction in classes and
day. Due time must also be allowed for the practical work on the various subjects. The one
tendency
of these
regulations
is excellent.
They
new
measure
hospitals.
1890.
Under
rules this desideratum will be in great met during the last year which may be
of
The 48th Session of the General Council Medical Education and Registration has been
signalized by tions
the
on
the
passing
subject
of
important
resolu-
of the scientific and pro-
fessional education of medical students, which cannot fail to exercise a very powerful influence on the teaching and training of the future.
principles which uuderlie these resolutions are? ls?, that the term of study should be extended ; 2ml, that the purely scientific subjects ?physics, chemistry, and biology should be completed before the end of the first year, and The
3rd, that the last year should be devoted to clinical study. The medical curriculum has
been extended to five years instead of four, but as the first year is devoted to pure science and may be speut at a school or college in now
which physics, chemistry, and biology and the student's
nation,
and
devoted
to
knowledge
are
is tested
taught,
by
examithe last year of the five must be clinical study, it follows that
as
systematic teaching
the
of medical
subjects
proper
compressed into three years. This necessity will tax the iugeuuity of college author-
must
ities
be
not a
little,
more
especially
lias ordained that systematic subject are uot to be delivered a
week, ami
on not on more
as
the. Council
lectures
on
any
ofteuer than thrice than three subjects
THE INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE.
212
in
[July
a,tic instruction in classes and
day. Due time must also be allowed for the practical work on the various subjects. The one
tendency
of these
regulations
is excellent.
They
new
measure
hospitals.
1890.
Under
rules this desideratum will be in great met during the last year which may be
