[Memorandum on clinical teaching].

  • University of Glasgow. Court.
Date:
[1909]
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    XII. That the foregoing- provisions as to fees and classes for clinical instruction do not apply to any existing Professor until he shall have signified his assent thereto. In submitting the proposals the Committee made the following observations : “ Should these proposals be carried into effect the following results, which in the opinion of the Committee would be advan- tageous to the Medical School, would be brought about. (1) The .ancient connexion between the University and the Royal Infirmary would be restored, and the wide field of profes- sional study which the latter affords would be rendered more available to University students. (2) Women students, who at present are practically obliged to receive their hospital instruction at the Royal Infirmary, would bo enabled to attend at that institution courses given bv Professors of the University, as men can now do at the Western Infirmary. (3) The substantial increase in the endowments of the Chairs of Clinical Medicine and Clinical Surgery, now offered to the L’niversity, would justify the requirement that the respective Professors at the Royal Infirmary should teach their subjects both systematically .and clinically, as the Professors of Medi- cine and of Surgery at the Western Infirmary now do. (4) The appointment of the Physicians and Surgeons at both these Infirmaries (whose clinical instruction is now only recognised by the University) to be Lecturers in Clinical Medicine and Clinical Surgery respectively, would facilitate the organisation of hospital instruction, the introduction of a composition fee for University students, and the regular association of the clinical teachers with the work of e.xamina- tion. “ The Committee have not overlooked the fact that, owing to the proximity of the Western Infirmary, and the special facilities which it affords for University instruction, the majority of the men students will continue to resort to it for their clinical work. The Royal Infirmary will always be at some disadvantage on account of its distance from the University. But in view of the expansion of the medical school which may reasonably be expected to follow upon better organisation and an extended field, it appears desirable that this disadvantage should not be increased by the lack of a definite