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SUDAN MEDICAL SERVICE
SERVICES
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that industrial medical services in this country will become a well-established and important branch of medicine. Further inquiries on this subject can be made to the honorary secretary, Association of Industrial Medical Officers, London School of Hygiene, Keppel Street, London, W.C.I. PRISONS
At the larger prisons whole-time officers are appointed, sometimes with deputy medical officers to assist them. Furnished quarters are provided or an allowance made for rent. The posts are pensionable and promotions At the smaller prisons no are made as vacancies occur. whole-time officers are employed ; local practitioners are usually appointed as part-time officers. Further particulars can be obtained from the Prison Commissioners, 62/64, Baker Street, London, W.I.
Services Abroad INDIAN MEDICAL SERVICE
Government medical departments employ about 700 European medical officers, including some 30 women, and about the same number of Asiatic and African medical officers, appointed locally. Medical experience may include malaria, yaws, leprosy, hookworm disease, sleeping-sickness, plague, yellow fever, cholera as well as the diseases of common medical practice. Full particulars of the terms and conditions of service may be obtained from the Director of Recruitment (Colonial Service), Colonial Office, 29, Queen Anne’s Gate, London, S.W.I. SUDAN MEDICAL SERVICE This service is responsible for civil medical and public health work in the Sudan, and for the health of the Sudan Defence Force. It is impossible to give any definite news of future policy at present, but recruitment has ceased for the time being and is likely to remain in abeyance until the end of the war. Those seeking further particulars should write to Dr. H. C. Squires, consulting physician to the Sudan Government, 93, Harley Street, London, W.1.
SOUTHERN RHODESIAN MEDICAL SERVICE This service is designed primarily to meet the needs of The Government maintains a medical and public the Indian Army, but provincial governments in India health service in which whole-time and part-time officers are required to employ a stated number of I.M.S. officers are employed. Full particulars may be obtained from and there are also some government posts reserved for the High Commissioner for Southern Rhodesia, 429, them. Recruitment has been modified by the war ; officers are now appointed to emergency commissions Strand, London, W.C.2. in the military branch for the war period. These appointments are particularly suitable for young doctors Study who wish to serve in India at the present time. The age limit for emergency commissions is 32, preference being given to men under 28. Recognition for service done will THE war has interfered with provisions for postgraduate be given to an officer should he, after the war, be granted study by reducing the number of beds available for a permanent commission. Appointment carries a free teaching and by scattering the teaching staffs, but passage to India, an allowance for uniform, and initial there are still facilities available for those who need them. pay at the rate of 2105 a year. On his release from The undergraduate medical schools still provide opporservice an emergency commissioned officer receives a tunities of work for higher examinations for their own gratuity at the rate of one month’s pay for each year of graduates, although the division of both hospitals and army service. If invalided out for a disability due to staffs has made this more difficult. service he receives retired pay appropriate to his rank The majority of the schools which normally take postand disability. If he dies as a result of military service students fall into one of three groups : graduate during the war, provision is made for his widow and (A)-Those hospitals which are carrying on much the same children. Full information about terms of service and promotion may be obtained from the Military Secretary, teaching facilities as before the war. (B)-Those hospitals whose total beds are reduced by the India Office, Whitehall, London S.W.I. The medical adviser to the Secretary of State is always willing to need to keep a certain number vacant for casualties, but which are continuing their outpatient departments, and, interview prospective officers.
Postgraduate
WOMEN’S MEDICAL SERVICE FOR INDIA Admission to the service is by selection in India and England, preference being given to women with Indian experience ; appointment is open to English and Indian qualified women and the number of full medical officers is 44. There are 6 to 10 temporary officers and a training reserve of about 14 recently qualified women from Indian universities. Vacancies are few, usually only three or four in each year, and there is little recruitment from England. Since the outbreak of war no members of the training reserve have been sent to England for postgraduate study. Leave out of India has also been restricted and vacancies in the service are being filled by doctors in India as need arises. Further information may be obtained from the Medical Adviser, Dufferin Association, c/o the High Commissioner for India, India House, Aldwych, London, W.C.2. COLONIAL MEDICAL SERVICE The Colonial Office is anxious that young doctors should realise that recruitment for the Colonial Medical Service at the present time has been officially approved and that service in the Colonial Empire is of as much national importance as service in the Forces. Vacancies occur most frequently in tropical Africa and Malaya. Specialist appointments are usually reserved for officers already in the service who have shown outstanding merit in a particular branch. A few vacancies may occur for women with experience in maternity and child welfare work. Selected candidates are generally required to attend a course in tropical medicine and hygiene before going overseas or during their first leave period. The colonial,empire covers about 2,000,000 square miles and contains a population of over 60 million. The vapious
although in reduced numbers, their resident appointments. Special postgraduate lectures and courses have been suspended, but hospital practice is available, at least on applica-
tion to the dean.
(c)-Those hospitals which graduate teaching altogether.
have had to
suspend post-
The refresher courses for insurance practitioners provided by the Ministry of Health, which had just become securely established, have had to be abandoned during the war, but equivalent instruction is still provided in London by the hospital practice at the Royal Northern Hospital and by a programme selected from the activities of the various departments at the British Postgraduate Medical School, and, to a large extent, by the hospital practice at the Prince of Wales’s, Hampstead General, and Metropolitan Hospitals. GENERAL HOSPITALS
British Postgraduate Medical School (A), although the number of beds is reduced, and the fulltime staff to some extent depleted by the Services, teaching is continuing on pre-war lines. The ordinary programmes are being carried on in medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology and pathology, and the same principle is adhered to of continuous teaching, by the ordinary British methods of bedside tuition and lectures, rather than by specific courses. The teaching is of a high standard, suitable both for those who merely wish to improve their knowledge and for candidates for higher examinations. Since the war an increasing number of special courses have been arranged on war medicine. chest surgery, fractures, war surgery of the nervous system and so on. These are intensive and last a week, to be suitable for officers ill the Services. They are adverted in advance in the medical papers. Fees At
the
281
ABROAD.-POSTGRADUATE STUDY
that industrial medical services in this country will become a well-established and important branch of medicine. Further inquiries on this subject can be made to the honorary secretary, Association of Industrial Medical Officers, London School of Hygiene, Keppel Street, London, W.C.I. PRISONS
At the larger prisons whole-time officers are appointed, sometimes with deputy medical officers to assist them. Furnished quarters are provided or an allowance made for rent. The posts are pensionable and promotions At the smaller prisons no are made as vacancies occur. whole-time officers are employed ; local practitioners are usually appointed as part-time officers. Further particulars can be obtained from the Prison Commissioners, 62/64, Baker Street, London, W.I.
Services Abroad INDIAN MEDICAL SERVICE
Government medical departments employ about 700 European medical officers, including some 30 women, and about the same number of Asiatic and African medical officers, appointed locally. Medical experience may include malaria, yaws, leprosy, hookworm disease, sleeping-sickness, plague, yellow fever, cholera as well as the diseases of common medical practice. Full particulars of the terms and conditions of service may be obtained from the Director of Recruitment (Colonial Service), Colonial Office, 29, Queen Anne’s Gate, London, S.W.I. SUDAN MEDICAL SERVICE This service is responsible for civil medical and public health work in the Sudan, and for the health of the Sudan Defence Force. It is impossible to give any definite news of future policy at present, but recruitment has ceased for the time being and is likely to remain in abeyance until the end of the war. Those seeking further particulars should write to Dr. H. C. Squires, consulting physician to the Sudan Government, 93, Harley Street, London, W.1.
SOUTHERN RHODESIAN MEDICAL SERVICE This service is designed primarily to meet the needs of The Government maintains a medical and public the Indian Army, but provincial governments in India health service in which whole-time and part-time officers are required to employ a stated number of I.M.S. officers are employed. Full particulars may be obtained from and there are also some government posts reserved for the High Commissioner for Southern Rhodesia, 429, them. Recruitment has been modified by the war ; officers are now appointed to emergency commissions Strand, London, W.C.2. in the military branch for the war period. These appointments are particularly suitable for young doctors Study who wish to serve in India at the present time. The age limit for emergency commissions is 32, preference being given to men under 28. Recognition for service done will THE war has interfered with provisions for postgraduate be given to an officer should he, after the war, be granted study by reducing the number of beds available for a permanent commission. Appointment carries a free teaching and by scattering the teaching staffs, but passage to India, an allowance for uniform, and initial there are still facilities available for those who need them. pay at the rate of 2105 a year. On his release from The undergraduate medical schools still provide opporservice an emergency commissioned officer receives a tunities of work for higher examinations for their own gratuity at the rate of one month’s pay for each year of graduates, although the division of both hospitals and army service. If invalided out for a disability due to staffs has made this more difficult. service he receives retired pay appropriate to his rank The majority of the schools which normally take postand disability. If he dies as a result of military service students fall into one of three groups : graduate during the war, provision is made for his widow and (A)-Those hospitals which are carrying on much the same children. Full information about terms of service and promotion may be obtained from the Military Secretary, teaching facilities as before the war. (B)-Those hospitals whose total beds are reduced by the India Office, Whitehall, London S.W.I. The medical adviser to the Secretary of State is always willing to need to keep a certain number vacant for casualties, but which are continuing their outpatient departments, and, interview prospective officers.
Postgraduate
WOMEN’S MEDICAL SERVICE FOR INDIA Admission to the service is by selection in India and England, preference being given to women with Indian experience ; appointment is open to English and Indian qualified women and the number of full medical officers is 44. There are 6 to 10 temporary officers and a training reserve of about 14 recently qualified women from Indian universities. Vacancies are few, usually only three or four in each year, and there is little recruitment from England. Since the outbreak of war no members of the training reserve have been sent to England for postgraduate study. Leave out of India has also been restricted and vacancies in the service are being filled by doctors in India as need arises. Further information may be obtained from the Medical Adviser, Dufferin Association, c/o the High Commissioner for India, India House, Aldwych, London, W.C.2. COLONIAL MEDICAL SERVICE The Colonial Office is anxious that young doctors should realise that recruitment for the Colonial Medical Service at the present time has been officially approved and that service in the Colonial Empire is of as much national importance as service in the Forces. Vacancies occur most frequently in tropical Africa and Malaya. Specialist appointments are usually reserved for officers already in the service who have shown outstanding merit in a particular branch. A few vacancies may occur for women with experience in maternity and child welfare work. Selected candidates are generally required to attend a course in tropical medicine and hygiene before going overseas or during their first leave period. The colonial,empire covers about 2,000,000 square miles and contains a population of over 60 million. The vapious
although in reduced numbers, their resident appointments. Special postgraduate lectures and courses have been suspended, but hospital practice is available, at least on applica-
tion to the dean.
(c)-Those hospitals which graduate teaching altogether.
have had to
suspend post-
The refresher courses for insurance practitioners provided by the Ministry of Health, which had just become securely established, have had to be abandoned during the war, but equivalent instruction is still provided in London by the hospital practice at the Royal Northern Hospital and by a programme selected from the activities of the various departments at the British Postgraduate Medical School, and, to a large extent, by the hospital practice at the Prince of Wales’s, Hampstead General, and Metropolitan Hospitals. GENERAL HOSPITALS
British Postgraduate Medical School (A), although the number of beds is reduced, and the fulltime staff to some extent depleted by the Services, teaching is continuing on pre-war lines. The ordinary programmes are being carried on in medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology and pathology, and the same principle is adhered to of continuous teaching, by the ordinary British methods of bedside tuition and lectures, rather than by specific courses. The teaching is of a high standard, suitable both for those who merely wish to improve their knowledge and for candidates for higher examinations. Since the war an increasing number of special courses have been arranged on war medicine. chest surgery, fractures, war surgery of the nervous system and so on. These are intensive and last a week, to be suitable for officers ill the Services. They are adverted in advance in the medical papers. Fees At
the