UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

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SESSION 1899-1900.

University of Aberdeen.-Local Examinations (Senior and Junior). Preliminary Examination for Graduation in Arts or Science

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degree in

Medicine and Surgery.

Final Examination for

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Arts or Science.

GENERAL COUNCIL OF MEDICAL EDUCAUniversity of Glasgow. Preliminary Examination for Graduation in Arts or Science or Medicine and Surgery. TION AND REGISTRATION OF THE Final Examination for a degree in Arts or Science. UNITED KINGDOM. -

Registration of Medical Students.-The following are the General Medical Council’s Regulations in reference to the registration of students in medicine :-

University of St. Andrews.-Preliminary Examination for Graduation in Arts or Science or Medicine and Surgery. Final Examination for a degree in Arts or Science or for the diploma of L L.A. University of Dublin. Public Entrance Examination. Examination ior the first, second, third, or fourth year in Arts. Final Examination for a degree in Arts. Royal University of Ireland.-Matriculation Examination. Final Examination for a degree in Arts or Science. Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination Board.Lower certificate (to include all the required subjects at one time). Higher certificate (to include the required subjects). -

Every medical student shall be registered in the manner prescribed by the General Medical Council. No medical student shall be registered until he has passed a preliminary examination as required by the General Medical Council, and has produced evidence that he has commenced medical study. The commencement of the course of professional study recognised by any of the qualifying bodies shall not be reckoned as dating earlier than fifteen days before the II.—MEDICAL LICENSING BODIES. date of registration. The registration of medical students shall be placed under the charge of the branch registrars. Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons in Ireland.Every person desirous of being registered as a medical student Preliminary Examination.’ shall apply to the branch registrar of the division of the III -EDUCATIONAL BODIES OTHER THAN UNIVERSITIES. United Kingdom in which he is residing ; and shall produce or forward to the branch registrar a certificate of his having College of Preceptors.-Examination for a First Class or Second Class Certificate of First or Second Certificate as a examination the General passed preliminary required by Medical Council, and evidence that he has commenced medical study. The branch registrar shall enter the applicant’s name and other particulars in the Students’ Register, and shall give him a certificate of such registration. Each of the branch registrars shall supply to the several qualifying bodies, medical schools, and hospitals, in that part of the United Kingdom of which he is registrar, a sufficient number of blank forms of application for the registration of medical students. Applications for special exceptions are dealt with by the Students’ Registration Committee, which reports all such cases to the Council. The Preliminary Examination in General Education, required to be passed previously to registration as a medical student, shall be as follows :1. English language, including grammar and composition. 2. Latin, including grammar, translation from specified authors, and translation

Division. Preliminary Examination for Medical Students. Intermediate Education Board of Ireland.-Junior Middle Grade Examination ; Senior Grade Examination. Educational Institute oj Scotland. Preliminary Medical Examination. Scotch Education Department. -Leaving Certificates in Lower and Higher Grades and in Honours. Central Welsh Board.-Senior Certificate Examination. -

AND FOREIGN UNIVERSITIES COLLEGES. The Certificates from Indian, Colonial, and Foreign Universities and Colleges must contain evidence that the Examination has been conducted by or under the authority of the Body granting it, must include all the subjects required by the General Medical Council, and must state that all the of easy passages not taken from such authors. 3. Mathematics, com- subjects of Examination have been passed in at one time; prising (a) arithmetic, (b) algebra, as far as simple equations, inclusive; copies of the form of the required Certificate are supplied (c) geometry, the subject matter of Euclid, Books 1., II., and III., with the Registrar of the Council for the purpose. In the case easy deductions. 4. One of the following optional subjects: (a) Greek, by of Natives of India or other Oriental countries whose ver(b) French, (c) German, (d) Italian, (e) any other modern language." The Council will not in future accept any certificate of pass in Pre- nacular is other than English an Examination in a Classic liminary Examination in General Education unless the whole of the Oriental Language may be accepted instead of an ExaminaExamination the in the included Preliminary required by subjects Council for Registration of Students of Medicine have been passed at tion in Latin. After Jan. 1st, 1900, there will be some the same time. alterations in connexion with examinations held out of the Professional -Education.-The course of professional study United Kingdom. after registration shall occupy at least five years. The H. E. Allen, LL.B., Registrar of the General Council Final examination in Medicine, Surgery, and Midwifery and of the Branch Council for England, 299, Oxford-street, must not be passed before the close of the fifth academic London, W.-James Robertson, Registrar of the Branch Council for Scotland, 48, George-square, Edinburgh.-S. W. year of medical study. The following is a list of Examining Bodies whose exa- Wilson, L.R.C.P. Irel., Registrar of the Branch Council for minations in general education are recognised by the Ireland, 35, Dawson-street, Dublin. General Medical Council as qualifying for registration as a medical or dental student the applicant producing satisfactory evidence that he has passed them :REGULATIONS I.-UNIVERSITIES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. OF THE University of Oxford.-Junior Local Examinations. Senior MEDICAL EXAMINING BODIES IN THE Final Local Examinations. Responsions. Moderations. Examination for a degree in Arts. UNITED KINGDOM. University of Cambridge. -Junior Local Examinations. Senior Local Examinations. Higher Local Examinations. UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. Previous Examination. General Examination. Final Examination for a degree in Arts. THERE are two degrees in Medicine, B.M. and D.M., and University of Durham.-Examination for Certificate of two degrees in Surgery, B.Ch. and M.Ch. The B.M. and B.Ch. degrees are granted to those Proficiency. Preliminary Examination in Arts for Graduation in Medicine and Science. Final Examination for a members of the University who have passed the Second Examination. Graduates in Arts (B.A. or M.A.) are alone degree in Arts. University of London.-Matriculation Examination. Final !i, eligible for these two degrees. In order to obtain the Examination for a degree in Arts or Science. degrees of B. M, and B.Ch. the following examinations must Victoria University.-Preliminary Examination. Entrance be passed :-1. Preliminary subjects : Mechanics and Physics, Examination in Arts. Final Examination for a degree in Chemistry, Animal Morphology and Botany. 2. ProfesArts or Science. sional. (a) First Examination: Subjects -Organic CheUniversity of Wales.-Matriculation Examination. Final mistry, unless the candidate has obtained a first or second Examination for a degree in Arts or Science. class in Chemistry in the Natural Science School ; Human University of Edinburgh.-Local Examinations (Senior and Physiology unless he has obtained a first or second class in Junior). Preliminary Examination for Graduation in Arts Final Examination or Science or Medicine and Surgery. 1 The Council has recommended that this examination be dis for a degree in Arts cr Science. continued. "

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INDIAN, COLONIAL, AND

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in the Natural Science School ; Humar1 Materia Medica with Pharmacy. (b) Secone1

Physiology

Anatomy, and

Examination: Subjects- Medicine, Surgery, Midwifery, Pathology, Forensic Medicine with Hygiene. The approxi. mate dates of the examinations are as follows :-Prelimi. naries-Mechanics, Physics and Chemistry, December and

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W. W. Fisher, M.A., and J. E. Marsh, M.A. Lecturer in Materia Medica and Pharmacology : W. J. Smith Jerome, B.M. Lond. Linacre Professor of Comparative Anatomy, W. F. R. Weldon, M.A. Eiementary Animal Morphology (Practical) : the Aldrichian Demonstrator, E. Goodrich, M.A.,

and assistants. Sherardian Professor of Botany : S. H. Vines, June ; Animal Morphology, December and March ; Botany, M.A. Waynfiete Professor of Chemistry : W. Odling, M.A. March and June; Professional (First and Second B.M.)i Lees Reader in Chemistry: A. G. Vernon Harcourt, M.A. June and December. Laboratory Instruction: W. W. Fisher, M.A., J. Watts, M.A., The degree of D.M. is granted to Bachelors of Medicine ofV. H. Veley. M.A., and J. E. Marsh, M.A. Professor of Exthe University-(1) who took the degree of B.M. previously perimental Philosopby : R. B. Clifton, M.A. Instruction in to the end of Trinity Term, 1886, provided they have spent; Practical Physics: R. B. Clifton, M.A., J. Walker, M.A., three years in the practice of Medicine after taking that; and J. C. Ataop, B.A. Elementary Hea,t and Light: Lees. degree, and have composed a dissertation on some medical Reader in Physics, R. E. Baynes, M.A. Elementary subject approved by the Regius Professor of Medicine, before Mechanics: F. J. Smith, M.A. whom it must be read in public ; (2) who took the degree of B.M. subsequently to the end of Trinity Term, 1886, provided they have entered their thirty-ninth term and have comUNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. .

posed on some medical subject a dissertation which is approved by the professors in the Faculty of Medicine and

The student must enter at one of the Colleges, or as non-collegiate student, and keep nine terms by residence in the University. He must pass the Previous Examination in Classics, Mathematics, &c., which may, and should if possible, be done before coming into residence in, October, or be may obtain exemption through the Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination Board or the Cambridge Senior Local Examinations. He may then devote himself to medical study in the University, attending the hospital and the medical lectures, dissecting, &c. Or he may, as nearly all students now do, proceed to take a degree in Arts, either continuing mathematical and classical study and passing the ordinary examinations for B.A., or going out in one of the Honour Triposes. The Natural Sciences Tripos is the most appropriate, as some of the subjects are tion may be presented separately or in any combination or practically the same as those for the first and second M.B. in any order, provided Anatomy and Physiology be passed examinations. For the degree of Bachelor of Medicine (M.B.) five years together. The Second Examination may be passed after the com- of medical study are required. This time may be spent in pletion of the first, but the subject of Pathology may be Cambridge or at one of the recognised Schools of Medicine. presented before the remaining ones. Before admission to The first three or four years are usually spent in the Second Examination candidates must present Certificates Cambridge, the student remaining in the University of instruction in Infectious and Mental Diseases, and of till he has passed, say, the examination for the attendance on Labours, and of proficiency in the practice of Natural Sciences Tripos and the first and second examinaVaccination. tions for M.B. Cambridge being now a complete School of Scholarships, &c. -Scholarships in some branch of Natural Medicine, all the requisite lectures and hospital practice Science (Chemistry, Physics, Biology) of the average may be attended here, and many students remain to attend value of £80 per annum, tenable for four years and lectures and hospital practice until they have passed the renewable under certain conditions for a fifth year, as first part of the third examination for M. B. The supply well as Exhibitions of a less annual value, are awarded of subjects for Dissection is abundant and the laboratories after competitive examination every year by some of the for Pathology, Bacteriology, and Pharmacology are well Colleges. Notices of vacancy, &c., are published in the equipped. Addenbrooke’s Hospital provides for the necessary University Gazette. In February there is competed for clinical training. There are three examinations for M.B. The first includes annually, by those who, having obtained a first-class in any school (Moderations or final), or a Scholarship or Prize Chemistry and other branches of Physics, and Elementary open to general competition in the University, have passed Biology. These parts may be taken together or separately. all the examinations for the degree of B.M., one Radcliffe The second in Human Anatomy and Physiology and in PharTravelling Fellowship. It is tenable for three years and is maceutical Chemistry. These may be taken together or of the annual value of .g200. The examination is partly separately. The third may also be taken in two partsscientific, partly medical. The holder must travel abroad viz., (1) Principles and Practice of Surgery (with Operative for the purpose of medical study. A Rolleston Memorial and Clinical Surgery) and Midwifery and Diseases of Prize is awarded once in two years to members of the Women; and (2) Pathology, Principles and Practice of Universities of Oxford and Cambridge of not more than ten Medicine, including Pharmacology and Therapeutics, years’ standing for an original research in some Biological Elements of Hygiene, Medical Jurisprudence and Mental The examinations are partly in writing, subiect including Physiology or Pathology. Diseases. More detailed information may be obtained from the partly oral, and partly practical, in the hospital, in the disUniversity Calendar ; from the Examination Statutes, 1894, secting-room, and in the laboratories. An Act has then to which contain the official schedules of the several subjects be kept in the Public Schools, by the candidate reading an of examination in both Arts and Medicine; from the original dissertation composed by himself on some subject Student’s Handbook to the University; from the Regius approved by the Regius Professor of Physic. Professor of Medicine ; and from the Professors in the As Operative and Clinical Surgery now form parts of the several departments of medical science. third M.B. examination candidates who have passed both The Lecturers for the various subjects are as follows :- parts of that examination are admitted to the registrable Regius Professor of Medicine: Sir J. S. Burdon Sanderson, degree of Bachelor of S’urgery (B. C.) without separate D.M. Pathological Histology and Practical Bacteriology: The examination and without keeping an Act. Lecturer in Pathology, J. Ritchie, D.M. Edin. Professor of The degree of Doctor in Medicine may be taken three Human Anatomy: A. Thomson, M.A. Waynflete Professor of years after that of M.B. or four years after that of M.A. Physiology: F. Gotch, M.A., University Lecturer on Physio-An Act has to be kept, consisting of an original Thesis logy, J. S. Haldane, M.A. Practical Physiology andsustained in the Public Schools, with -vivi-voce examination ; Histology : G. Mann, D.M. Edin. Physiological Chemistry: :and an extempore Essay has to be written on some subject Walter Rimsden, M.A. Lichfield Lecturer in Clinicalrelating to Physiology, Pathology, the Practice of Medicine, Medicine : W. Collier, M.A., D.M. Camb. Lichfieldor State Medicine. Lecturer in Clinical Surgery: A. Winkfield, F.R.C.S. For the degree of Master in S’urgery (M. C. ) the candidate Organic Chemistry in Relation to Medicine, &c., must have passed all the examinations for B.C., or followed by Practical Work : Aldrichian Demonstrator, iif he is an M.A. have obtained some other registrable

examiners for the degree of B.M. whose subject is dealt with. A book published within two years of the candidate’s application for the degree may be substituted for a dissertation. The degree of M.Ch. is granted to Bachelors of Surgery of the University who have entered their twenty-seventh term, who are members of the surgical staff of a recognised hospital, or have acted as Dresser or House Surgeon in such a hospital for six months, and who have passed anexamination in Surgery, Surgical Anatomy, and Surgical Operations. This examination is held annually, in June, at the end of the Second B.M, Examination. The First Examination for the degrees of B.M. and B. Ch. may be passed as soon as the Preliminary Scientific Examinations have been completed. The subjects of this examina-

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