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College in the British Empire, or by any Foreign University whose Degrees are recognised in the Foreign List of the Medical Register, will be exempted vvmcc t-Ju.l.õ’VJ..3 from the Primary Examination. practitioners whose names are entered either on the The subjects for the First Professional ExaminaMedical Register for the United Kingdom, the Colonial tion are : Anatomy, Physiology and Histology, Medical Register, or the Foreign Medical Register including Biochemistry ; and for the Second Profesof the year in which he presents himself for examinasional, Materia Medica and Pharmacy, Pathology,and tion, and who satisfies the Council that he has passed Medical Jurisprudence and Hygiene. through a course of study and Examinations equivaFor the Final Examination the subjects are: lent to those required by the Regulations of the Irish (a) Medicine and Clinical Medicine and Clinical Conjoint Board. Methods. (b) Surgery-Clinical, Ophthalmic, and Candidates are examined in General Surgery and Surgical Anatomy. (c) Midwifery and Operative ; (paper and oral), Clinical Surgery, Surgical Pathology Gynaecology, and Practical Pharmacy and Materia (oral), Operative Surgery, Surgical Anatomy (paper), Medica (if not taken at Intermediate Examination). and Ophthalmic and Aural Surgery (clinical). Each candidate before receiving his diploma must Diploma in Midwifery.-A diploma in Midwifery is produce evidence that he has attained the age of 21 granted after examination to persons possessing a years. The details of the course of education required registrable qualification. and syllabus of the examinations will be supplied Fellowship Examinations.-Candidates for the Fel- by the Registrar at 95, Merrion-square, Dublin. lowship shall make application to the President and Council to be admitted to examination. They are WE take this opportunity of thanking the officials required to pass two examinations-Primary and of Government Departments and the Deans and Final. Candidates may present themselves for the Secretaries of the various institutions for their Final Examination immediately after passing the Primary part, provided they have complied with the kind cooperation in enabling us to bring the necessary regulations. The subjects for the Primary information contained in our Students’ Number up Examination are (a) Anatomy, including Dissections ; to date and (b) Physiology and Histology. The subjects for the Final Examination are Surgery, including Surgical THE MEDICAL CURRICULUM Anatomy and Pathology. For admission to the Final Examination the candidate must have passed the Primary Examination, and must be a Licentiate or ELEVEN articles, which ran through our columns Graduate in Surgery of a university or licensing body last took the shape of a series of opinions upon recognised by the General Medical Council; all such the year, existing system of medical education, asking candidates must not be less than 25 years of age. Further particulars can be obtained from the frankly " What is Wrong with the Curriculum ? " ; Registrar of the College, Stephen’s Green West, Dublin. they were contributed by request from authors who for various reasons were in a position to speak. A strong Schools of Surgery feeling clearly exists that the length of time necessary The Schools of Surgery are attached by Charter for carrying out the requirements of the educational to the Royal College of Surgeons and have existed authorities is such that unnecessary burdens are as a department of the College for over a century. placed upon many students. There is not only an are on within the College buildings carried They and are specially subject to the supervision and overloaded series of examinations to pass, but many students of high intelligence feel the economic stress control of the Council, who are empowered to appoint and remove the professors and to regulate the methods which the duration of the course causes. It was also of teaching pursued. The buildings have been recon- held by more than one writer that the curriculum now structed, the capacity of the dissecting-room nearly fails in some measure to produce sufficient practitrebled, and special pathological and bacteriological tioners of the type which the nation needs and can laboratories are fitted with the most approved best ; there is a belief that the young graduate appliances in order that students may have the has employ not been enabled by his training to handle advantage of the most modern methods of instruction. Winter Session commences in October; Summer adequately the situations which he meets with in Session in April. Scholarships and Prizes : Carmichael practice, however far-ranging his scientific equipment Scholarship, :815 ; Mayne Scholarship, 28; Stoney may be. Many efficient teachers, while they feel Memorial gold medal ; Operative Surgery, gold and that their primary concern must be the training of silver medals ; Barker Prize, 226 5s. ;; H. Mac- students to pass examinations and become practinaughton-Jones gold medal in Obstetrics and tioners, want to hand on to their students something Gynaecology; and class prizes and medals. Pros- of the wider fields of knowledge lying behind the pectus and guide for medical students can be obtained post free on written application to the Registrar, subjects of immediate concern, and this they find Royal College of Surgeons, Stephen’s Green W., it difficult to do without encroaching upon the Dublin. over-occupied and strictly allotted time periods. Further, it is seldom that any opportunity is found APOTHECARIES’ HALL OF IRELAND for pointing out to students the important part The Licence of this Hall is granted to students who which psychological processes play in the causation present certificates of having fully completed the course and treatment of disorder. of study as laid down in the curriculum and who pass The following are the exact references to the the necessary examinations. The diploma of the Hall entitles the holder to be registered as a practi- articles in question : tioner in medicine, surgery, and midwifery, with also (1) Major Greenwood, D.Sc., F.R.C.P., F.R.S. (June the privileges of the Apothecary’s Licence. llth, 1932). (2) Ralph M. F. Picken, M.B., B.Sc., Candidates must pass three Professional Examina- D.P.H. (June 18th, 1932). (3) G. Grey Turner, M.S., tions, called the First and Second Professional F.R.C.S., F.A.C.S. (June 25th, 1932). (4) A. E. Boycott, Examinations and the Final Examination, which are D.M., F.R.C.P., F.R.S. (July 2nd, 1932). (5) Frank E. conducted at separate times, partly in writing, and Tylecote, M.D., F.R.C.P., D.P.H. (July 9th, 1932). partly practically and orally. The Examinations (6) Lindsey W. Batten, M.B., M.R.C.P. (July 16th, 1932). are held twice a year-viz., in June and January, (.7) Bernard Hart, M.D., F.R.C.P. (July 23rd, 1932). ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND
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such other dates as may be determined. Candidates who produce satisfactory evidence of having passed an examination for a Degree or Licence in Medicine, conducted by any University or Royal or
(8) Leslie Cole, M.D., M.R.C.P. (July 30th, 1932). (9) T. Izod Bennett, M.D., F.R.C.P. (August 6th, 1932). (10) W. Burton Wood, M.D., M.R.C.P. (August 13th, 1932). (11) F. B. Byrom, M.D., M.R.C.P. (August 20th. 1932).
College in the British Empire, or by any Foreign University whose Degrees are recognised in the Foreign List of the Medical Register, will be exempted vvmcc t-Ju.l.õ’VJ..3 from the Primary Examination. practitioners whose names are entered either on the The subjects for the First Professional ExaminaMedical Register for the United Kingdom, the Colonial tion are : Anatomy, Physiology and Histology, Medical Register, or the Foreign Medical Register including Biochemistry ; and for the Second Profesof the year in which he presents himself for examinasional, Materia Medica and Pharmacy, Pathology,and tion, and who satisfies the Council that he has passed Medical Jurisprudence and Hygiene. through a course of study and Examinations equivaFor the Final Examination the subjects are: lent to those required by the Regulations of the Irish (a) Medicine and Clinical Medicine and Clinical Conjoint Board. Methods. (b) Surgery-Clinical, Ophthalmic, and Candidates are examined in General Surgery and Surgical Anatomy. (c) Midwifery and Operative ; (paper and oral), Clinical Surgery, Surgical Pathology Gynaecology, and Practical Pharmacy and Materia (oral), Operative Surgery, Surgical Anatomy (paper), Medica (if not taken at Intermediate Examination). and Ophthalmic and Aural Surgery (clinical). Each candidate before receiving his diploma must Diploma in Midwifery.-A diploma in Midwifery is produce evidence that he has attained the age of 21 granted after examination to persons possessing a years. The details of the course of education required registrable qualification. and syllabus of the examinations will be supplied Fellowship Examinations.-Candidates for the Fel- by the Registrar at 95, Merrion-square, Dublin. lowship shall make application to the President and Council to be admitted to examination. They are WE take this opportunity of thanking the officials required to pass two examinations-Primary and of Government Departments and the Deans and Final. Candidates may present themselves for the Secretaries of the various institutions for their Final Examination immediately after passing the Primary part, provided they have complied with the kind cooperation in enabling us to bring the necessary regulations. The subjects for the Primary information contained in our Students’ Number up Examination are (a) Anatomy, including Dissections ; to date and (b) Physiology and Histology. The subjects for the Final Examination are Surgery, including Surgical THE MEDICAL CURRICULUM Anatomy and Pathology. For admission to the Final Examination the candidate must have passed the Primary Examination, and must be a Licentiate or ELEVEN articles, which ran through our columns Graduate in Surgery of a university or licensing body last took the shape of a series of opinions upon recognised by the General Medical Council; all such the year, existing system of medical education, asking candidates must not be less than 25 years of age. Further particulars can be obtained from the frankly " What is Wrong with the Curriculum ? " ; Registrar of the College, Stephen’s Green West, Dublin. they were contributed by request from authors who for various reasons were in a position to speak. A strong Schools of Surgery feeling clearly exists that the length of time necessary The Schools of Surgery are attached by Charter for carrying out the requirements of the educational to the Royal College of Surgeons and have existed authorities is such that unnecessary burdens are as a department of the College for over a century. placed upon many students. There is not only an are on within the College buildings carried They and are specially subject to the supervision and overloaded series of examinations to pass, but many students of high intelligence feel the economic stress control of the Council, who are empowered to appoint and remove the professors and to regulate the methods which the duration of the course causes. It was also of teaching pursued. The buildings have been recon- held by more than one writer that the curriculum now structed, the capacity of the dissecting-room nearly fails in some measure to produce sufficient practitrebled, and special pathological and bacteriological tioners of the type which the nation needs and can laboratories are fitted with the most approved best ; there is a belief that the young graduate appliances in order that students may have the has employ not been enabled by his training to handle advantage of the most modern methods of instruction. Winter Session commences in October; Summer adequately the situations which he meets with in Session in April. Scholarships and Prizes : Carmichael practice, however far-ranging his scientific equipment Scholarship, :815 ; Mayne Scholarship, 28; Stoney may be. Many efficient teachers, while they feel Memorial gold medal ; Operative Surgery, gold and that their primary concern must be the training of silver medals ; Barker Prize, 226 5s. ;; H. Mac- students to pass examinations and become practinaughton-Jones gold medal in Obstetrics and tioners, want to hand on to their students something Gynaecology; and class prizes and medals. Pros- of the wider fields of knowledge lying behind the pectus and guide for medical students can be obtained post free on written application to the Registrar, subjects of immediate concern, and this they find Royal College of Surgeons, Stephen’s Green W., it difficult to do without encroaching upon the Dublin. over-occupied and strictly allotted time periods. Further, it is seldom that any opportunity is found APOTHECARIES’ HALL OF IRELAND for pointing out to students the important part The Licence of this Hall is granted to students who which psychological processes play in the causation present certificates of having fully completed the course and treatment of disorder. of study as laid down in the curriculum and who pass The following are the exact references to the the necessary examinations. The diploma of the Hall entitles the holder to be registered as a practi- articles in question : tioner in medicine, surgery, and midwifery, with also (1) Major Greenwood, D.Sc., F.R.C.P., F.R.S. (June the privileges of the Apothecary’s Licence. llth, 1932). (2) Ralph M. F. Picken, M.B., B.Sc., Candidates must pass three Professional Examina- D.P.H. (June 18th, 1932). (3) G. Grey Turner, M.S., tions, called the First and Second Professional F.R.C.S., F.A.C.S. (June 25th, 1932). (4) A. E. Boycott, Examinations and the Final Examination, which are D.M., F.R.C.P., F.R.S. (July 2nd, 1932). (5) Frank E. conducted at separate times, partly in writing, and Tylecote, M.D., F.R.C.P., D.P.H. (July 9th, 1932). partly practically and orally. The Examinations (6) Lindsey W. Batten, M.B., M.R.C.P. (July 16th, 1932). are held twice a year-viz., in June and January, (.7) Bernard Hart, M.D., F.R.C.P. (July 23rd, 1932). ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND
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such other dates as may be determined. Candidates who produce satisfactory evidence of having passed an examination for a Degree or Licence in Medicine, conducted by any University or Royal or
(8) Leslie Cole, M.D., M.R.C.P. (July 30th, 1932). (9) T. Izod Bennett, M.D., F.R.C.P. (August 6th, 1932). (10) W. Burton Wood, M.D., M.R.C.P. (August 13th, 1932). (11) F. B. Byrom, M.D., M.R.C.P. (August 20th. 1932).