Regulations for Army medical services / War Office.

Date:
1894
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Credit: Regulations for Army medical services / War Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (<',) The administration, interior economy, com- mand, and discipline of the Medical Staff Corps, together with a knowledge of the principles of military law and their practical application (a certificate of proficiency in military law obtained at a garrison class will exempt the holder from examination in the latter). 3. A certificate will be required from a recognised teacher of surgery in any medical school, at home or abroad, in which operative surgery is taught, showing that the Medical Officer has gone satisfac- torily through a complete course of operative surgery during the period within which the exami- nation must be taken, and that he is a competent operator. 4. A report on any subject of a practical pro- fessional character, to be selected by the Officer himself, and certified to be his own composition and in his own handwriting will also be required, Considerable importance will be attached to the literary and scientific merits of this report, which must be furnished before the Officer completes 12 years service. 5. The examinations will be conducted by printed questions, which will enter so far into the subject matter of each head selected for examination as to show that the Officer's knowledge has been fully tested. 0. The questions and answers will be forwarded, ander a sealed confidential cover to the Director- General for transmission to the examiners, who will report to the Director-General as to the com- petence of the Officer examined. 7. Any higher qualification, such as M.D.r F.R.C.S., &c, or any diploma in hygiene and state medicine, taken after the 1st May, 1890, wdl not exempt Surgeon-Captains from this examination.