Report on the visit to the examination held at Philadelphia, PA., by the National Board of Medical Examiners, May 19th-26th, 1920 / by Sir Humphry Rolleston and H.J. Waring.

  • Rolleston, Humphry Davy, Sir, 1862-1944.
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[1920]
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Credit: Report on the visit to the examination held at Philadelphia, PA., by the National Board of Medical Examiners, May 19th-26th, 1920 / by Sir Humphry Rolleston and H.J. Waring. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4. Recommendation as to Licence of the National . Board of Medical Examiners. From the evidence of previous education demanded from the candidates (vide p. 5) and from inspection of the Examination at Philadelphia from May 19th to 26th, 1920, it appears desirable that the holders of the Licence of the National Board of Medical Examiners should be admitted direct to the Final Examination of the Examining Board in England by the Royal College of Physicians of London and the Royal College of Surgeons of England. It is not improbable that the above recommendation, if adopted, may be helpful in the future consideration of reciprocity in medical qualifications between the United States and Great Britain. So many other factors, however, of a national, legal and administrative character bear on any decision that may eventually be made that further reference to this matter would be premature. II. IMPRESSIONS FROM INSPECTION OF CERTAIN “ A ” CLASS SCHOOLS. II. Impressions from Inspection op Certain “ A ” Class Schools op Medicine selected by the National Board of Medical Examiners. 1. The Difference between the Medical Curriculum in the United States and that in Great Britain. Remarks on the Medical Schools of the United States must be prefaced by-the statement that those visited were chosen for, not by, the European Commission, and that they wrnre all of Class “A,” including the most famous ones in the country, such as Washington University, St. Louis, the Medical School of the University of St. Louis, Missouri, the Universities of Iowa and Minnesota, the Western Reserve University, Cleveland, the Universities of Harvard, Columbia, Pennsylvania, and the Johns Hopkins University. In addition to these Medical Schools the Hospitals m the attached list -were visited (vide p. 22). In all 22 Medical Schools and 36 Hospitals in fourteen centres were inspected. The Medical curriculum in Great Britain occupies approximately five years, whereas generally in the United States the Medical Course occupies four years. It might therefore appear that a serious difference existed ; but this is not so, for the subjects of' physics, chemistry (organic and inorganic), and biology, which are included in the five years of the British curriculum, are relegated to the two years’ College Course which precedes the four years’ Medical Course.