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THE SEVENTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF MEDICINE (1913).
1337 not of marked ability, are in all cases in a position of inferiority to the clinical staff, whose servants they are. The work which is expected of these scientific teachers is to get the students under them as quickly as through the various preliminary and intermediate examinations, so that they may be passed on to the clinical work of the wards. The scientific teacher is, in fact, only useful in-so far as he passes his - students. Thewhole idea of the first three years, the most impressionable time of the student’s career, is not educational but professional.
Weeks of Life, will be opened by Dr. A. K. Chalmers (Glasgow), Dr. Henry Koplik (New York), and Professor Wallich (Paris). On Monday, August llth, a discussion (jointly with Secpossible tion XXII.) on Rontgen and Radium Therapy in Gynaecology, will be introduced by Dr. Foveau de Courmelles (Paris), Professor B. Kronig (Freiburg), and Professor A. Schönberg Professor Starling in his evidence then proceeded to consider the main drawbacks to the existing system, and the (Hamburg). On Tuesday, August lath, a discussion on Cancer of the Commissioners thereon report as to the relations between the and Cervix), Operative Technique and Results, Uterus University and the medical schools of the metropolis. They will be (Body introduced by Professor D. de Ott (St. Petersburg), say :The main defects in the existing system are: absence of university ideal; subordination of teaching to examination ; waste of energy in hospital schools. To some extent the University may be to blame, but it has not had the means of assuming financial responsibility for medical education. It has confined itself to, prescribing a curriculum and conducting examinations on a syllabus. The medical schools have had the responsibility for medical education, and may claim that their interests should be considered in any reorganisation of medical education in London. On the other hand, they are almost as closely con- ’, nected with Oxford and Cambridge and the Conjoint Board as with London University. They prepare indifferently for the examinations of all qualifying authorities for which their students desire to enter. Their teaching is subordinated to external examinations.
The Commissioners proceed to the detailed consideration the medical curriculum under its three headings, Preliminary, Intermediate, and Advanced (i.e., purely
of
medical)
Studies.
With
regard to the Preliminary Studies they find that the Statutory Commission of 1898, following the Gresham Commission Report, recommended concentration of all three divisions of study, but the attempts of the Senate to bring this about have failed, the collapse being attributed partly to the alteration in size and constitution of the Medical Faculty by the admission of the science teachers in the medical schools, and partly to the jealousy of University and King’s Colleges. The Commission reports :The reasons for concentration no longer hold good to the same extent The chief difficulty in arranging for adequate instruction as formerly. in the preliminary sciences is the want of time. The Board of Preliminary Sciences recommend teaching with special reference to future application. The existing arrangements for science teaching are not satisfactory. The preliminary sciences should be special subjects of the last two years of a secondary school course and be included in the higher school examination which would exempt from the preliminary science examination, give admission to the Faculty of Medicine, and shorten the University course to four and a half years. They add that there is Evidence of the Association of. Public .Schools Science Masters that science teaching in some schools is of a high standard. The Conjoint Board and General Medical Council now recognise schools for preliminary science. The University will have to provide instruction for students who have not taken science at school.
Professor A. Pollosson
(Lyons), and Professor Wertheim
(Vienna).
The afternoon sessions will be occupied with the reading and discussion of independent papers which will be selected by the council of the section. The titles of papers have already been received from the following authors: Professor Franz Daels (Ghent), Professor Fritz Frank (Cöln), Professor Fabre (Lyons), Dr. Genevieve Clark (Cambridge, Mass.), Dr. Riddle Goffe (New York), Professor Hugo Sellheim (Tiibingen), Dr. J. M. Munro Kerr (Glasgow), Dr. Kudoh (Korea), Professor Recasens (Madrid), Professor E. P. Davis (Philadelphia), Dr. A. Louise Mcllroy (Glasgow), Dr. A. F. A. King (Washington), Professor Kraemer (Greifswald), Dr. Heinrich Rotter (Budapest), Dr. J. Bonjour (Lausanne), Dr. Odon Tuszkai (Budapest), M. Louis Wickham and M. Paul Degrais (Grasse), Dr. Robert L. Dickinson and Dr. John 0. Polak (Brooklyn), Professor Pozzi (Paris), Professor P. Nubiola (Barcelona), Dr. Hans Hermann Schnid (Prague), and Dr. F. J. McCann (London). Demonstrations have also been offered by Professor Hugo Sellheim (Tübingen) and Professor W. Nagel (Berlin). The latest date for the reception of titles and papers is July lst. The department of the museum dealing with obstetrics and gynaecology will contain specimens illustrating the papers and discussions and also other material, either dealing with the subjects of Cancer of the Uterus and Haemorrhage from the Placental Site or illustrating other investigations and observations of current interest. An exhibition of old obstetrical instruments will be a special feature of this department of the museum. It will contain the whole of the collection now preserved at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, which is being catalogued by Mr. Alban H. G. Doran, and, it is hoped, many other rare old instruments from British and foreign sources. Communications regarding the museum should be addressed to the honorary secretary of the Museum Committee, Mr. H. W. Armit, Ravenhurst, Talbot-road,
They further dwell upon the importance of the scientific .grounding of the medical student, the particular difficulty Wembley. offered here being, of course, the study of biology. On Saturday, August 9th, a dinner will be given by British With regard to the organisation of instruction in the members of the section, at which foreign guests will be ’Intermediate Sciences the Commissioners find that if clinical instruction is organised on a university basis the case for the concentration of study, in these subjects loses its force. The proper course, they consider, is to, provide for the teaching and study of anatomy, physiology, and pharmacology in a university medical college (the institution of which they deal with in discussing the advanced medical studies), so that the intermediate and advanced instruction may proceed hand in
tand. (To be continued.)
THE SEVENTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF MEDICINE (1913). SECTION OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNÆCOLOGY. THE President of this section is Sir Francis H. Champneys, Bart., and the honorary secretary, Dr. Herbert R. Spencer
(104, Harley-street, W.).
The meetings of this section will be held in the Theatre of the Imperial College of Science.
Chemistry
On Thursday, August 7th, a discussion will be opened by Professor Doderlein (Munich) and Professor Essen-Moller
(Lund)
on the Treatment of Haemorrhage from the Placental Site (Placenta Prsevia and Accidental Haemorrhage) in the Later Months of Pregnancy.
On Friday, August’ 8th, a discussion (jointly with Sections X. and XVIII.) on Infant Mortality in the First Four
entertained. ________________
ROYAL MEDICAL BENEVOLENT FUND. THE FESTIVAL DINNER. IN spite of the regretted absence-through the illness of the Duchess of Connaught-of Prince Arthur of Connaught, who was to have presided, the festival dinner in aid of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund on April 30th was a great The company at the Hotel Cecil numbered about success. 250, of whom many were ladies. Sir John Tweedy, the president of the Fund, occupied the chair, and he was immediately supported by the Dowager Lady Broadbent, Sir Thomas Barlow, Lord Goschen, Sir Rickman Godlee, the Hon. Evelyn Hubbard, Sir Henry Burdett, the Hon. W. F. D. Smith, Mr. W. Bramley Taylor, Sir Frederick Treves, Sir James Reid, Captain and Mrs. Eric Barham, and Dr. Samuel West (treasurer). Sir JOHN TWEEDY, in proposing the toast " Prosperity to the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund," read a message from Prince Arthur of Connaught, expressing regret at his unavoidable absence from the chair that evening, and warmly recommending the Fund to the notice of the charitable public. His Royal Highness’s sympathetic and appreciative message informed the company that the King, in addition to bestowing the title of Royal upon the British Medical Benevolent Fund, thereby setting the seal of his
Weeks of Life, will be opened by Dr. A. K. Chalmers (Glasgow), Dr. Henry Koplik (New York), and Professor Wallich (Paris). On Monday, August llth, a discussion (jointly with Secpossible tion XXII.) on Rontgen and Radium Therapy in Gynaecology, will be introduced by Dr. Foveau de Courmelles (Paris), Professor B. Kronig (Freiburg), and Professor A. Schönberg Professor Starling in his evidence then proceeded to consider the main drawbacks to the existing system, and the (Hamburg). On Tuesday, August lath, a discussion on Cancer of the Commissioners thereon report as to the relations between the and Cervix), Operative Technique and Results, Uterus University and the medical schools of the metropolis. They will be (Body introduced by Professor D. de Ott (St. Petersburg), say :The main defects in the existing system are: absence of university ideal; subordination of teaching to examination ; waste of energy in hospital schools. To some extent the University may be to blame, but it has not had the means of assuming financial responsibility for medical education. It has confined itself to, prescribing a curriculum and conducting examinations on a syllabus. The medical schools have had the responsibility for medical education, and may claim that their interests should be considered in any reorganisation of medical education in London. On the other hand, they are almost as closely con- ’, nected with Oxford and Cambridge and the Conjoint Board as with London University. They prepare indifferently for the examinations of all qualifying authorities for which their students desire to enter. Their teaching is subordinated to external examinations.
The Commissioners proceed to the detailed consideration the medical curriculum under its three headings, Preliminary, Intermediate, and Advanced (i.e., purely
of
medical)
Studies.
With
regard to the Preliminary Studies they find that the Statutory Commission of 1898, following the Gresham Commission Report, recommended concentration of all three divisions of study, but the attempts of the Senate to bring this about have failed, the collapse being attributed partly to the alteration in size and constitution of the Medical Faculty by the admission of the science teachers in the medical schools, and partly to the jealousy of University and King’s Colleges. The Commission reports :The reasons for concentration no longer hold good to the same extent The chief difficulty in arranging for adequate instruction as formerly. in the preliminary sciences is the want of time. The Board of Preliminary Sciences recommend teaching with special reference to future application. The existing arrangements for science teaching are not satisfactory. The preliminary sciences should be special subjects of the last two years of a secondary school course and be included in the higher school examination which would exempt from the preliminary science examination, give admission to the Faculty of Medicine, and shorten the University course to four and a half years. They add that there is Evidence of the Association of. Public .Schools Science Masters that science teaching in some schools is of a high standard. The Conjoint Board and General Medical Council now recognise schools for preliminary science. The University will have to provide instruction for students who have not taken science at school.
Professor A. Pollosson
(Lyons), and Professor Wertheim
(Vienna).
The afternoon sessions will be occupied with the reading and discussion of independent papers which will be selected by the council of the section. The titles of papers have already been received from the following authors: Professor Franz Daels (Ghent), Professor Fritz Frank (Cöln), Professor Fabre (Lyons), Dr. Genevieve Clark (Cambridge, Mass.), Dr. Riddle Goffe (New York), Professor Hugo Sellheim (Tiibingen), Dr. J. M. Munro Kerr (Glasgow), Dr. Kudoh (Korea), Professor Recasens (Madrid), Professor E. P. Davis (Philadelphia), Dr. A. Louise Mcllroy (Glasgow), Dr. A. F. A. King (Washington), Professor Kraemer (Greifswald), Dr. Heinrich Rotter (Budapest), Dr. J. Bonjour (Lausanne), Dr. Odon Tuszkai (Budapest), M. Louis Wickham and M. Paul Degrais (Grasse), Dr. Robert L. Dickinson and Dr. John 0. Polak (Brooklyn), Professor Pozzi (Paris), Professor P. Nubiola (Barcelona), Dr. Hans Hermann Schnid (Prague), and Dr. F. J. McCann (London). Demonstrations have also been offered by Professor Hugo Sellheim (Tübingen) and Professor W. Nagel (Berlin). The latest date for the reception of titles and papers is July lst. The department of the museum dealing with obstetrics and gynaecology will contain specimens illustrating the papers and discussions and also other material, either dealing with the subjects of Cancer of the Uterus and Haemorrhage from the Placental Site or illustrating other investigations and observations of current interest. An exhibition of old obstetrical instruments will be a special feature of this department of the museum. It will contain the whole of the collection now preserved at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, which is being catalogued by Mr. Alban H. G. Doran, and, it is hoped, many other rare old instruments from British and foreign sources. Communications regarding the museum should be addressed to the honorary secretary of the Museum Committee, Mr. H. W. Armit, Ravenhurst, Talbot-road,
They further dwell upon the importance of the scientific .grounding of the medical student, the particular difficulty Wembley. offered here being, of course, the study of biology. On Saturday, August 9th, a dinner will be given by British With regard to the organisation of instruction in the members of the section, at which foreign guests will be ’Intermediate Sciences the Commissioners find that if clinical instruction is organised on a university basis the case for the concentration of study, in these subjects loses its force. The proper course, they consider, is to, provide for the teaching and study of anatomy, physiology, and pharmacology in a university medical college (the institution of which they deal with in discussing the advanced medical studies), so that the intermediate and advanced instruction may proceed hand in
tand. (To be continued.)
THE SEVENTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF MEDICINE (1913). SECTION OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNÆCOLOGY. THE President of this section is Sir Francis H. Champneys, Bart., and the honorary secretary, Dr. Herbert R. Spencer
(104, Harley-street, W.).
The meetings of this section will be held in the Theatre of the Imperial College of Science.
Chemistry
On Thursday, August 7th, a discussion will be opened by Professor Doderlein (Munich) and Professor Essen-Moller
(Lund)
on the Treatment of Haemorrhage from the Placental Site (Placenta Prsevia and Accidental Haemorrhage) in the Later Months of Pregnancy.
On Friday, August’ 8th, a discussion (jointly with Sections X. and XVIII.) on Infant Mortality in the First Four
entertained. ________________
ROYAL MEDICAL BENEVOLENT FUND. THE FESTIVAL DINNER. IN spite of the regretted absence-through the illness of the Duchess of Connaught-of Prince Arthur of Connaught, who was to have presided, the festival dinner in aid of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund on April 30th was a great The company at the Hotel Cecil numbered about success. 250, of whom many were ladies. Sir John Tweedy, the president of the Fund, occupied the chair, and he was immediately supported by the Dowager Lady Broadbent, Sir Thomas Barlow, Lord Goschen, Sir Rickman Godlee, the Hon. Evelyn Hubbard, Sir Henry Burdett, the Hon. W. F. D. Smith, Mr. W. Bramley Taylor, Sir Frederick Treves, Sir James Reid, Captain and Mrs. Eric Barham, and Dr. Samuel West (treasurer). Sir JOHN TWEEDY, in proposing the toast " Prosperity to the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund," read a message from Prince Arthur of Connaught, expressing regret at his unavoidable absence from the chair that evening, and warmly recommending the Fund to the notice of the charitable public. His Royal Highness’s sympathetic and appreciative message informed the company that the King, in addition to bestowing the title of Royal upon the British Medical Benevolent Fund, thereby setting the seal of his