The medical profession in India / by Sir Patrick Hehir.

  • Hehir, Patrick, Sir, 1859-1937.
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[1923]
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Credit: The medical profession in India / by Sir Patrick Hehir. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER I MEDICAL EDUCATION IN INDIA Medical education in India is carried out in the medical colleges and college hospitals connected with the various universities and in various medical schools and their hospitals. The universities grant to successful alumni degrees which are registrable in the U.K. and in India, and licences to practise, which, though registrable in India, are, so far, not registrable in the U.K. The General Medical Council of Great Britain has lately threatened to withdraw the privilege of registration in England because of insufficient training in midwifery of graduates and licentiates of Indian universities ; this is dealt with more in detail later on. There are also a few unofficial medical colleges and medical schools unconnected with the uni- versities and uncontrolled by Government, which award licences to practise ; these qualifications are not registrable in the U.K., nor in India, and during the last generation or so a great evil has sprung up through medical diplomas being granted by unauthorized bodies. Medical schools exist in various parts of the country ; in these the standard is lower, the curriculum less elaborate, and the duration of training shorter than in the colleges ; successful students are granted a State diploma to practise which, until recently, was not registrable (vide infra). All the official medical colleges and hospitals connected with them aim at giving a medical education equal to that obtainable in the corresponding institutions of the U.K.; to what extent they succeed in this is referred to later on ; it should be remembered that medical colleges were not started until about seventy or eighty years ago,