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The course of study for the Final Examination includes either attendance on the Practice of Medicine and Surgery at a hospital or other institution recognised by the Society for a further period of twelve months, or six months as above and six months as a pupil of a registered practitioner holding a public medical or surgical appointment, or attendance at two special hospitals for six months (three months at each hospital), and for six months at a general hospital, all buch hospitals to be recognised by the Society. Evidence shall also be given of practical instruction in Infectious Diseases and in Mental Diseases (at a lunatic asylum or in the wards of an institution containing a special ward set apart for the treatment of mental diseases), and in any two of the following subjects: Ophthalmic Surgery. Laryngology with Rhinology and Otology, Dermatology, Diseases of Children. These
a general hospital recognised by the any time after the student has held the post of Dresser and Clinical Clerk. No candidate is eligible for the Final Examination who has not completed the curriculum prescribed by the Society, in evidence of which a schedule, to be obtained of the Secretary, must be produced, signed by the Dean of the Medical School or other authority. Prior to the Final Examination the candidate must produce certificates : (1) of being twenty-one years of age; (2) of moral character ; (3) of the course of medical study ; and (4) of proficiency in vaccination signed by a teacher authorised by the Local Government Board. Candidates intending to present themselves for examination are required to give fourteen days’ notice. A form for this purpose will be sent
courses
may be taken at
Society
on
application.
The fee for the three examinations is 15 guineas, or 5 guineas for each examination, except in the case of persons holding a foreign diploma, who are required to pay the entire fee of 15 guineas. The Secretary to the Examiners attends at the Hall of the Society, Blackfriars, E.C., from 10 to 12 o’clock daily.
Mr. Walter Reeve, 28, Victoria-street, Westminster, between the hours of 4 and 5, except Mondays and Saturdays. THE
ARMY, NAVY, AND INDIAN MEDICAL
SERVICES. the of the Royal Warrant of August, issue Consequent upon 1891, alterations have taken place in the designations cr the departmental rank of the officers of the Army Medical Staff, and medical officers are also now placed, as regards sick leave of absence on full pay, on the same footing a, those laid down for regimental officers. By a subseqaen Royal Warrant, dated Nov. 10th, 1891, Art. 1208b of the words "an officer Pay Warrant was revised by inserting the of our Medical Staff " after the words "combatant officer," thus giving medical officers an equal title with combatant officers to reckon time on half-pay towards retirement, when the half-pay has been due to ill-health contracted in the performance of military duty. Under the R)yal Warrant of July, 1895, time on half-pay not exceeding a year may under simitar circumstances also reckon towards promotion. The substantive ranks of officers of the Medical Staff carry precedence and other advantages attaching to the rank indicated by the military portion of it, with such exceptions and within such limits as are laid down in the earlier Warrant. In the Gazette of Aug. 28th, 1891, it was announced that the Queen had been pleased, by Royal Warrant, dated Aug. 7th, 1891, to approve of the following alterations of the designations of the departmental rank of the officers of the Medical Staff now serving as follows :-Surgeons-General, ranking as Majors-General, to be Surgeon-Major-Generals; Deputy Sur. geons-General, ranking as Colonels, to be Sargeon-Colonels;
Brigade-Sargeons, ranking as Lieutenant-Colonels, to be Brigade - Surgeon - Lieutenant- Colonels ; Hurgeons-Major, ranking as Lieutenant-Colonels, to be Sargeon-Lieutenant. Colonels ; Surgeons-Major, ranking as Majors, to be SurgeonMajors; Surgeons, ranking as Captains, to be SurgeonCaptains. The substantive rank of the Director.General of the Army Medical Department is that of Snrgeon-Msjor-
UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS. British and other practitioners holding registrable quali- General. fications are admissible for the Doctorate of the University [For the text of the Warrant of Aug. 7th for the medical of Brussels without any further curriculum. It is necessary, Staff, vide THE LANCET of Aug. 22nd, 1891, page 45s however, that all candidates should leave their diplomas et seq.]] Admission into the Army and Indian Medical Services is with the Registrar of the University prior to the examination, and no one will be admitted until ibis condition has gained as the result of competitive examination. Under The fees are - For matriculation, special conditions the admission may take place by nominabeen complied with. a 12s. ; for 1st Doctorate, Q48s. ; for 2nd Doctorate, tion under the authority of the Secretary of State for War. £4 4s. for 3rd Doctorate, £44 8s. ; for legalisation of Candidates for both services must, before being admitted double qualification to practise diploma, 8s.—.£22. The unsuccessful candidates may pra- to examination, possess a be’ Cin- Medicine and Surgery, and sent themselves again three months after rejection. registered under the Medical didates who have paid in advance the fees for the three Act. They are also now required to produce certificates examinations, and are unsuccessful in the first, recover the of having acted as a medical clinical clerk for six months, fees paid for the second and third ; those who fail in the as surgical dresser for another six months, and of second recover the fees paid for the third examination. having had not less than three months’ instructicn at There are three examinations, viz.-lst Doctorate : Medicine, an ophthalmic hospital or the ophthalmic department ofa Special and General Pathology and Pathological Anatomy; general hospital, including a course on errors of refraction. General Therapeutics ; Materia Medica and Pharmacology ; They must also furnish satisfactory certificates of moral and Mental Diseases. 2nd Doctorate : Surgery ; Midwifery character. A candidate for the Army must be between the Hygiene; and Medical Jaiisprudence. 3rd Doctorate: Clinical aees of twenty-one and twenty eight, in good mental and Examination in Medicine at the Hospital ; Clinical Surgical bodily health, and must sign a declaration upon honour that Examination; Examination in Midwifery, consisting in ob- he is of pure European descent ; for the Indian Service a canstetrical operations on the mannikin (model of pelvis) ; didate must be between twenty-one and twenty-eight, of sound Examination in Operative Surgery, consisting in some of the bodily health, and a natural-born subject of Her Majesty. usual operations on the dead subject, such as Amputation. Both are examined as to physical fitness by a Board of Ligature of an Artery, &:c.; Regional Anatomy on the Dead Medical Officers. These conditions being satisfied, the canBody, with Dissections ; and Ophthalmology. Great import- didate is admitted to the competitive examination, which ance is attached to practical knowledge, but candidates must is usually held in London twice a year, in the montt, also prove that they possess positive theoretical science. The of February and August. An entrance fee of ;E1is rEqcitec examinations, which are vivâ voce, take place on the first from each candidate admitted to the competition, and is pay Tuesday in November, December, February, May, and June. able at the conclusion of the candidate’s physical examins Candidates have the option of passing each Doctorate sepa- tion, if he be pronounced fit. No candidate for either rately or of taking the three at one examination. The time Service will be allowed to compete on more than two required for the three examinations seldom exceeds ten days, occasions. The subjects of examination are divided intr and is usually less. Saturday, before 2 P.M , is the most compulsory and toluntary. The former comprise Surgery eligible day for arriving for candidates with whom time is (1200 mark;), Medicine, including Therapeutics and the The examinations are conducted in English. Diseases of Women and Children (1,200 marks), Anatomy an object. There are in England at present about 600 graduates holding and Physiology (600 marks), Chemistry and Pharmacy, :>’: this degree, and an English Association of Brussels Graduates a practical knowledge of Drugs (600 marks). The e_.: has been formed. During 1895 of 132 "Foreign" candi- bility of the candidate for admission into the service s dates, mainly British engaged in actual practice, 65 passed determined by the result of this part of the examination an Order dated no candidate and failed.