Report on medical education, medical colleges and the regulation of the practice of medicine in the United States and Canada, 1765-1890 / by John R. Rauch, Secretary.

  • Illinois State Board of Health.
Date:
1890
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Credit: Report on medical education, medical colleges and the regulation of the practice of medicine in the United States and Canada, 1765-1890 / by John R. Rauch, Secretary. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CANADA. rKACTiTioNEKS of medicino in Canada must be registered, and the requirements de- manded vary in different provinces. The possession of the degree of Doctor of Medi- cine, granted by a recognized university, entitles its holder to registration, m all the provinces, except Ontario. The curriculum of studios required of a university, in order that its degrees may be registered, is set forth in the following sections of the Quebec Medical Act, and are applicable, with slight changes, to all the provinces: § 8. From and after the pas.sago of this act. no person shall bo admitted as a student of medicino, surgerv or midwifery unless he shall iiave obtained a certificate of qualifi- cation from the said Provincial Medical Board. And no one shall be entitled to the license of :he college, on presentation of a diploma, unless he shall have been previously admitted to the study of medicine, in micordance with the provisions of this act, or unless ho shall have passed an equivalent preliminary examination before a college, school or boai-d. authorized by law to require and cause such preliminary examinations to bo passed in Her Britannic Majesty’s possessions, elsewhere than in the Province of Quebec, and acceptable to the board created by this act. * ♦ ♦ The subjects of the preliminary qualifications to be English and French, Latin, geography, history, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, belles-letters, and any one of the following subjects; Greek, natural or moral philosophy; and the candidate to present a certificate of good moral character. § 15. The qualifications to bo required from a candidate for obtaining a license authorizing him to practice medicino, surgery and midwifery, shall consist in his hold- ing a certificate of study from a licensed physician, for the period intervening between the courses of lectures which he has followed; that he is not less than twenty-one years of ago; that he has followed his studies during a period of not less fhan four years, commencing from the date of his admission to the study of medicine by this board, and that, diu'ing the said four years, he shall have attended, at some university, college or incorporated school of medicine within Her Majesty’s dominions, not less than two six- months’ courses of general or descri\'tive anatomy, of practical anatomy, of surgery, of practice of medicine, of midwifery, ot chemistry, <u materia medica and general thera- peutics, of the institutes of medicine, of physiology and general pathology, of clinical medicine and of clinical surgery: one six-months course or two three-months’ courses, of medical jurisprudence and of hygiene; one three months’ course of botany; one three- months’ course, and a course of not less than twenty-live demonstrations, upon micros- copic anatomy, physiology and pathology, also, that he shall have attended the general practice of a hospital in which are contained not less than fifty beds, under the charge of not less than two physicians or surgeons, for a period of not less than one year and a half, or thi-ee periods of not less than six months each; and that he shall also have at- tended six cases of labor, and compounded medicines for six months. And to remove all doubts with regard to the number of lectimes which the incorporated schools of medicine of the Province of Quebec are bound to give, it is enacted and declared that each six-months’ course shall consist of one hundred and twenty lectures, except in the case of clinical medicine, clinical surgery and medical jurisprudence. Of the four years’ study required by this act, three six-months’ sessions at least shall bo passed in attend- ance upon lectures at a university, college or incorporated school of medicine recog- nized by this board, the first whereof shall be so passed the session immediately suc- ceeding the preliminary examination, and the last during the fourth year of study, and the candidate shall undergo an examination, on the final subjects of the curriculum, at the end of the session in his fourth year of study. It is optional in Quebec with the provincial board to accept or reject the degree of a univ rsity outside the province, and the test of an examination is sometimes imposed upon its holder. Graduates of United States medical schools, in order to register in a province of Canada, unless holding an academical degree, must 1) pass the matriculation examina- tion; 2) attend a Canadian school one or more full winter courses, so as to complete the curriculum of the province; and 8) pass the professional examination. Manitoba is an exception, the regulation there being as follows: American students in medicine [moaning graduates of medical colleges in the United States] obtain a license by passing a practical examination satisfactory to the board on the following subjects, viz: Anatomy, physiology, theory and practice of medicine, surgery, midwifery and diseases of women and children: chemistry: materia medica and therapeutics; medical jurisprudence ami toxicology.” For this examination, and subsequent registration, a fee of SluO is charged. Ontario. ONTABIO MEDICAL ACT. THE COLLEGE OF FHYSICTANS AND SUBOEONS OF ONTARIO. Tokonto, Ontario. Robert A. I’yNE, M. D., M. C. P. S. 0.. Registrar. The Mediccl Ih-ofession in Ontario was first incorporated under this name by an Act of Parhiinicnt of Cuniida, passotl in IStltl. This act was snbseQnently rcixuileil by the Legislature of Ontario in IW)'.*. The present Act was passed in 1874, and amended in 18s7.