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UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
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There are two degrees in Medicine, M.B. and M.D., two in Surgery, B.Chir. and M.Chir., and a Diploma in Medical Radiology and Electrology. Students of Girton or Newnham College are admitted to the examinations for these degrees and the diploma. The student must enter a College, or become a NonCollegiate student, and keep nine terms (three years) by residence. He must pass the Previous Examination of the University before he comes into residence or therefrom obtain exemption, particulars of which may be obtained from the Registrary. He may then devote himself to medical study in the University. Or he may, as nearly all students now do, proceed to take a degree in Arts by passing the Examinations for the Ordinary B.A. degree, or an Honours degree by passing one or more Tripos The Natural Sciences Tripos is Examinations. taken most frequently by medical students, as some of the subjects are practically the same as those for the M.B. course. For the degree of Bachelor of Medicine (M.B.) five calendar years of medical study are required either in Cambridge or at one of the recognised Schools of Medicine. The first three years are spent in Cambridge till the student has passed the examination for Part 1. of the Natural Sciences Tripos and the First Examination and other preliminaries to the Final Examination. Hospital practice may be attended at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. The laboratories for Botany, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Zoology, Human Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, Pathology, Bacteriology, Pharmacology, and Psychology are well equipped. Addenbrooke’s Hospital, the Infectious Diseases Hospital, the Cambridge Research Hospital, and the Field Laboratories are utilised for study and research. The First M.B. Examination includes (1) General and Inorganic Chemistry, (2) Physics, (3) Elementary Biology, and (4) Inorganic Chemistry. These parts After the may be taken together or separately. First Examination, and tests in Pharmacology, Physiology, and Anatomy, comes the Final Examination, divided into two parts: (1) Principles and Practice of Surgery (including Special Pathology and Midwifery and Diseases Peculiar to Women) ; and (2) Principles and Practice of Physic (including Diseases of Children, Mental Diseases, Medical Jurisprudence), Pathology (including Hygiene and Preventive Medicine), and Pharmacology (including Therapeutics and Toxicology). The examinations are partly in writing, partly oral, and partly practical, in the hospital, in the dissecting room, and in the laboratories. An Act has then to be kept by the candidate reading an original dissertation composed by himself, and being examined orally, on some subject approved by the Regius Professor of Physic. Candidates who have passed both parts of the Final M.B. Examination are admitted to the registrable degree of Bachelor of Surgery (B.Chir.) without separate examination and without keeping an Act. The degree of Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) may be taken by a graduate of the University of eight years’ standing who has passed the Final M.B. Examination. An Act has to be kept, consisting of an original Thesis with viva-voce examination ; and an examination, oral or written or both, on the field of Medicine within which the Thesis falls may be allowed or required. Candidates for the Degree of Master of Surgery (M.Chir.) who are M.A.’s may be admitted to the examination after they have become legally qualified under the Medical Acts to practise surgery. Others may be admitted to the examination when two years at least have elapsed after they have completed all that is required of candidates for the Degree of B.Chir. Candidates are required to pass an examination in Principles and Practice of Surgery, Surgical Anatomy and Surgical Operations, and Pathology, and to write an extempore essay on a Surgical Subject. (The examination is held in February.) ’
A Diploma in Medical Radiology and Electrology is granted. Candidates must hold a recognised medical qualification. Scholarships and Prizes.-Medical studies are endowed by the numerous Natural Science scholarships at the various colleges, information about which There can be obtained from the respective Tutors. are Natural Science scholarships at most of the Colleges and prizes in the ancillary medical subjects. Some of these are entrance scholarships ; some may be gained by students already in residence, and where suitable candidates are not forthcoming among such students the emoluments may be allotted to members of other Colleges. Valuable scholarships instituted on behalf of Medicine are the Tancred Studentships in Physic, tenable at Gonville and Caius College. The successful candidates must enter at the college within a month or remove there if they are members of any other college. Students are required to take the degree of M.B. as soon as they are of sufficient standing but may hold a Studentship for a further three years. Thus a student elected previous to admission to college can draw the emolument, the annual value of which is about 2100, for eight years. Full particulars can be obtained from Mr. E. T. Gurdon, 28, Lincoln’s Inn-fields, London. Among other scholarships and prizes may be mentioned the Balfour Studentship, for research in Biology, of the value of J6300 a year for three years, not restricted to members of the University ; the Frank Smart Studentship and Prizes for Botany and Zoology; the Shuttleworth Studentship for Zoology or Physiology tenable at Gonville and Caius College ; and the Marmaduke Shield Scholarship in Human Anatomy. The one University prize in Medicine, the Raymond Horton Smith Prize, is awarded to that candidate for the degree of M.D. who presents the best thesis for the degree during the academical year, provided that he has taken honours in a Tripos Examination. The E. G. Faernsides Research Scholarship and several very valuable studentships are also awarded. An abstract of the Regulations and Schedules of the range of the examinations in Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Pharmacology, and General Pathology may be obtained upon application to the Registrary, The Registry, Cambridge. Addenbrooke’s Hospital 267 beds. Clinical lectures in medicine and surgery, in connexion with Cambridge University medical school, are given at this hospital during the academical year; and practical instruction in medicine and surgery is given in the wards and out-patients’ rooms by the physicians and surgeons daily during the term time and vacations. UNIVERSITY
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LONDON
The University of London was constituted in 1836, reconstituted under the Act of Parliament, 1898, as a teaching as well as an examining body, and again reconstituted under Act of Parliament, 1926. All the metropolitan medical schools are constituent colleges, while Clinical Units have been established at St. Bartholomew’s, the London, St. Mary’s, St. Thomas’s, University College Hospital, and the Royal Free. A revision of the medical curriculum is in prospect. The Senate of the University has invited representatives of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and of the English Royal Colleges to meet in conference representatives of the Medical Faculty of the University with a view to devise constructive measures in remedy of difficulties which have been widely known to exist in London or elsewhere. Internal and External Students.-All the examinations of this University are open to men and women alike. Matriculated students of the University may be either internal or external. Internal students of the University are students who are registered as a prescribed course of study, or an approved of research, in a school of the University, or Centres for under teachers of the University.
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OF
CAMBRIDGE
There are two degrees in Medicine, M.B. and M.D., two in Surgery, B.Chir. and M.Chir., and a Diploma in Medical Radiology and Electrology. Students of Girton or Newnham College are admitted to the examinations for these degrees and the diploma. The student must enter a College, or become a NonCollegiate student, and keep nine terms (three years) by residence. He must pass the Previous Examination of the University before he comes into residence or therefrom obtain exemption, particulars of which may be obtained from the Registrary. He may then devote himself to medical study in the University. Or he may, as nearly all students now do, proceed to take a degree in Arts by passing the Examinations for the Ordinary B.A. degree, or an Honours degree by passing one or more Tripos The Natural Sciences Tripos is Examinations. taken most frequently by medical students, as some of the subjects are practically the same as those for the M.B. course. For the degree of Bachelor of Medicine (M.B.) five calendar years of medical study are required either in Cambridge or at one of the recognised Schools of Medicine. The first three years are spent in Cambridge till the student has passed the examination for Part 1. of the Natural Sciences Tripos and the First Examination and other preliminaries to the Final Examination. Hospital practice may be attended at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. The laboratories for Botany, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Zoology, Human Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, Pathology, Bacteriology, Pharmacology, and Psychology are well equipped. Addenbrooke’s Hospital, the Infectious Diseases Hospital, the Cambridge Research Hospital, and the Field Laboratories are utilised for study and research. The First M.B. Examination includes (1) General and Inorganic Chemistry, (2) Physics, (3) Elementary Biology, and (4) Inorganic Chemistry. These parts After the may be taken together or separately. First Examination, and tests in Pharmacology, Physiology, and Anatomy, comes the Final Examination, divided into two parts: (1) Principles and Practice of Surgery (including Special Pathology and Midwifery and Diseases Peculiar to Women) ; and (2) Principles and Practice of Physic (including Diseases of Children, Mental Diseases, Medical Jurisprudence), Pathology (including Hygiene and Preventive Medicine), and Pharmacology (including Therapeutics and Toxicology). The examinations are partly in writing, partly oral, and partly practical, in the hospital, in the dissecting room, and in the laboratories. An Act has then to be kept by the candidate reading an original dissertation composed by himself, and being examined orally, on some subject approved by the Regius Professor of Physic. Candidates who have passed both parts of the Final M.B. Examination are admitted to the registrable degree of Bachelor of Surgery (B.Chir.) without separate examination and without keeping an Act. The degree of Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) may be taken by a graduate of the University of eight years’ standing who has passed the Final M.B. Examination. An Act has to be kept, consisting of an original Thesis with viva-voce examination ; and an examination, oral or written or both, on the field of Medicine within which the Thesis falls may be allowed or required. Candidates for the Degree of Master of Surgery (M.Chir.) who are M.A.’s may be admitted to the examination after they have become legally qualified under the Medical Acts to practise surgery. Others may be admitted to the examination when two years at least have elapsed after they have completed all that is required of candidates for the Degree of B.Chir. Candidates are required to pass an examination in Principles and Practice of Surgery, Surgical Anatomy and Surgical Operations, and Pathology, and to write an extempore essay on a Surgical Subject. (The examination is held in February.) ’
A Diploma in Medical Radiology and Electrology is granted. Candidates must hold a recognised medical qualification. Scholarships and Prizes.-Medical studies are endowed by the numerous Natural Science scholarships at the various colleges, information about which There can be obtained from the respective Tutors. are Natural Science scholarships at most of the Colleges and prizes in the ancillary medical subjects. Some of these are entrance scholarships ; some may be gained by students already in residence, and where suitable candidates are not forthcoming among such students the emoluments may be allotted to members of other Colleges. Valuable scholarships instituted on behalf of Medicine are the Tancred Studentships in Physic, tenable at Gonville and Caius College. The successful candidates must enter at the college within a month or remove there if they are members of any other college. Students are required to take the degree of M.B. as soon as they are of sufficient standing but may hold a Studentship for a further three years. Thus a student elected previous to admission to college can draw the emolument, the annual value of which is about 2100, for eight years. Full particulars can be obtained from Mr. E. T. Gurdon, 28, Lincoln’s Inn-fields, London. Among other scholarships and prizes may be mentioned the Balfour Studentship, for research in Biology, of the value of J6300 a year for three years, not restricted to members of the University ; the Frank Smart Studentship and Prizes for Botany and Zoology; the Shuttleworth Studentship for Zoology or Physiology tenable at Gonville and Caius College ; and the Marmaduke Shield Scholarship in Human Anatomy. The one University prize in Medicine, the Raymond Horton Smith Prize, is awarded to that candidate for the degree of M.D. who presents the best thesis for the degree during the academical year, provided that he has taken honours in a Tripos Examination. The E. G. Faernsides Research Scholarship and several very valuable studentships are also awarded. An abstract of the Regulations and Schedules of the range of the examinations in Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Pharmacology, and General Pathology may be obtained upon application to the Registrary, The Registry, Cambridge. Addenbrooke’s Hospital 267 beds. Clinical lectures in medicine and surgery, in connexion with Cambridge University medical school, are given at this hospital during the academical year; and practical instruction in medicine and surgery is given in the wards and out-patients’ rooms by the physicians and surgeons daily during the term time and vacations. UNIVERSITY
OF
LONDON
The University of London was constituted in 1836, reconstituted under the Act of Parliament, 1898, as a teaching as well as an examining body, and again reconstituted under Act of Parliament, 1926. All the metropolitan medical schools are constituent colleges, while Clinical Units have been established at St. Bartholomew’s, the London, St. Mary’s, St. Thomas’s, University College Hospital, and the Royal Free. A revision of the medical curriculum is in prospect. The Senate of the University has invited representatives of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and of the English Royal Colleges to meet in conference representatives of the Medical Faculty of the University with a view to devise constructive measures in remedy of difficulties which have been widely known to exist in London or elsewhere. Internal and External Students.-All the examinations of this University are open to men and women alike. Matriculated students of the University may be either internal or external. Internal students of the University are students who are registered as a prescribed course of study, or an approved of research, in a school of the University, or Centres for under teachers of the University.
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