329 and larynx. The final examination for the be taken in otolaryngology.
pharynx,
F.R.C.S. may
REGISTRATION NO-ONE is a, legally qualified medical practitioner unless
lhis name appears on the Medical Register kept by the Anaesthetics The English and Irish Conjoint Boards offer diplomasIGeneral Council of Medical Education and Registration ’of the United Kingdom. The council is a standardising in anaesthetics (D.A.). Candidates must have- special experience in giving anaesthetics. -
Child Health
Diplomas in child health (D.C.H.) are granted by the English and Irish Conjoint Boards ; also by the National University of Ireland, with a course at University College, Dublin. Tuberculous Diseases Examinations for the diploma in tuberculous diseases (T.D.D.) of the University of Wales have been
resumed.
Bacteriology Diplomas in bacteriology
-
granted by the univer sities of London and Manchester. The London course, held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, has been resumed ; it begins in October and lasts one academic year. The Manchester course is to be resumed this October. are
Clinical Pathology The University of London offers a diploma in clinical pathology (D.C.P.), for which a year’s course of study is
required.
Numbers starting
Physical Medicine The
English Conjoint Board offers a diploma in physical medicine (D.PHYS.MED.). Candidates must have held a registrable qualification for two years, and must have had two resident appointments occupying not less than
a
year.
Orthopa’dics Liverpool University offers the degree of M.CH.ORTH. the
course
study and qualifying.* -
body, ensuring that
there is a prescribed minimum of medical education and examination requirements ; it is also responsible for discipline within the profession. The approximate number of second-year students admitted to medical schools in the United Kingdom and in Eire during each of the academic years 1945-46 and 1946-47 was 2600. The number of newly qualified in 1945 was 2277 and in 1946 was 2237. When temporary
for it lasts fifteen months.
Industrial Medicine The University of Edinburgh, the Society of Apothecaries of London, and the English Conjoint Board offer (D.I.H.). The course for the diplomas in industrial health diploma, instituted last year, lasts nine
Edinburgh months.
DENTAL DEGREES AND DIPLOMAS /
dentistry at the universities of London, Durham, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Bristol, St. Andrews, Belfast,’and Dublin ; and at the Univer. sity Colleges of Dublin and Cork, in the National University of Ireland. London University offers a B.D.S., and an M.S. There
are
schools of
in dental surgery ; it also prepares students for the L.D.s. of the Royal College of Surgeons. This college has lately instituted a fellowship in dental surgery (F.D.S.) Leeds grants a diploma (L.D.S.), a baccalaureate degree (B.CH.D.), and mastership (M.CH.D.). The University Colleges of Dublin and Cork grant a B.D.s. and a M.D.s., and Trinity College, Dublin, offers a B.DENT.SC. and a M.DENT.sc. All the other universities mentioned offer L.D.s., -B.i5.s., and M.D.S. ; St. Andrews offers a diploma in public dentistry (D.P.D.) in addition. Licences in dentistry are granted by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. "... Throughout the mammalian world the perpetuation of the species has depended entirely, and in all but the latest phase of human history mainly, on sexual not on parental instincts, the latter being unfolded in due course, through physiological sequences, only upon the birth of the young. The fact that many births, and possibly an increasing proportion, are planned does show, however, that parental instincts are not without their effect ; and the only serious problem is whether, after contraception has severed them from their sexual precursors, they can be made effective enough to
prevent
p. 46.
race
suicide."—.EwjMMM’.s Review, editorial, July, 1947,
Numbers
registration of Feb.
on
the Medical
colonial and
Register.
foreign doctors ceased
on
24, 1946, 825 colonial practitioners and 3551
foreign practitioners had been temporarily registered since 1940. Temporary registrations were to have been withdrawn on Dec. 31 of this year ; but under the Medical Practitioners and Pharmacists Bill, now before Parliament, their duration is to be extended to allow of application for transfer to the permanent register. *The numbers shown as starting study are taken from the Medical Students’ Register up to 1938 ; and since then from returns made by the medical schools to the General Medical Council. Both forms of registration are incomplete, but latterly returns have been received from almost all schools.