On the financial relations between the London hospitals and their affiliated medical schools : and the bearing of these relations on medical education : being the annual oration of the Medical Society of London, delivered May 15, 1905 / by Henry Morris.

  • Morris, Henry, Sir, 1844-1926.
Date:
1905
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    ON THE Financial Relations between the London Hospitals and their Affiliated Medical Schools; And the Bearing of these Relations on Medical Education. Until the last decade or so the medical schools in London were practically self-supporting. Year by year, however, the progress of medical sciences, the addition of fresh subjects of study, and the introduction of more exact methods of demonstration into medical teaching, have added to the expense of medical education. At length, despite the increasing personal self sacrifices of the teachers, it was found that the schools were making annual deficits, and that it was no longer possible for them to continue their work without assistance, in one form or another, from the funds of their respective hospitals. Two schemes were put forward for relieving the schools and the hospitals of this burdensome expen- diture ; one a self-supporting amalgamation scheme ; the other the establishment, by an appeal to the public for funds, of an Institute of Medical Sciences in connection with the University of London. Meanwhile, questions were raised as to the justifiability of applying funds given to the hospitals to the purposes of the medical schools attached thereto.