Remarks on medical reform, in a second letter addressed to the Right Hon. Sir James Graham, bart. ... / by Sir James Clark, bart.

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1843
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    General Practitioner being well instructed, and you at once insure a still higher education for the Physician; but the converse does not hold good, as experience has amply proved. On the subject of the Professional Educa- tion of medical men I shall not occupy your time. Four years is the usual period required in good medical schools; and if the student is prepared by a sound preliminary education, but not other- wise, this period may suffice. This was the ex- ♦ tent of the medical curriculum for the Bachelor of Medicine, fixed upon by the Senate of the Uni- versity of London; and certainly no one can be considered qualified to enter on the practice of his profession, as a General Practitioner, with less information, preliminary and medical, than that required by the Institution referred to. I trust, therefore, that it is not in contemplation to establish a class of medical practitioners inferior in point of education to the Bachelor of Medi- cine of the University of London. Of the pre- liminary education required by that Institution you are perfectly qualified to judge ; and, I think, when you have examined it, you will be surprised to hear that any one should consider it too much. {Note C.) With respect to the Medical Curriculum of the same Institution, I venture to assure you, without fear of contradiction, that nothing more is required of candidates than every