Report of the Royal Commissioners appointed to inquire into the medical acts : with minutes of evidence, appendices, and index.

  • Great Britain. Parliament. Medical Acts Commission.
Date:
1882
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    ROYAL COLLEGE OP PHYSICIANS OF EDINBURGH. The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh having had under consideration the inquiries addressed by the Medical Acts Commission to the several licensing bodies, begs to express its opinion on the points submitted to it. 1. The Licensing System. The College is of opinion that considerable im- provement has taken place in the examinations of the licensing bodies since the institution of visitations by the General Medical Council, and trusts that these visitations will in future be carried out regularly and systematically. The College is also of opinion that no one should be admitted upon the Medical Register who has not ob- tained a qualification in medicine and a qualification in surgery. 2. The General Medical Council. In the opinion of the College the present constitution, powers, and functions of the General Medical Council are on the whole satisfactory. The College is, however, of opinion, that the following changes in the consti- tution of the Council would be advantageous : a. That the Apothecaries’ Society of London and the Apothecaries’ Hall of Dublin, being essentially trading bodies, and the University of Durham having little to do with medical education or graduation, should no longer send representa- tives to the General Medical Council. b. That the President should be elected from the members of the General Medical Council. c. That one representative to the Council should be chosen by the University of Edinburgh, one by the University of Glasgow, and one by the University of Aberdeen and the University of St. Andrew’s, collectively. In the opinion of the College there is not, in Scotland at least, any strong feeling that the medical profession should send direct representatives to the General Medical Council. The College has in the abstract no objection to direct representatives, but considers that while adding to the number of Members of Council it would not materially affect its constitution or increase its efficiency. The College begs to append a return of the number of candidates who have, in each of the last five years, obtained its fellowship, membership, and license; of the amount of emolument derived in each of these years from the grant of each of these titles .• and of the annual amount of income possessed by the College from other sources. On behalf and by authority of the College, D. R. Haldane, 1st November 1881. President. Retv/rns. 1.—The Number of Candidates who have, in each of the last five years, obtained the following registrable titles : — — Fellows. Members Ordinary Licentiates. Joint Licentiates with College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. Joint Licen- tiates with Faculty of Physicians, Glasgow. Total number of Licentiates. Year 1876 . 9 23 114 85 22 221 „ 1877 - - - 11 18 99 116 13 228 „ 1878 - - - 8 23 114 160 21 295 „ 1879 - - - 6 19 145 156 27 328 ,. 1880 “ “ “ 9 20 137 162 30 329 2.—The Amount of Emolument derived therefrom : — Fellows. Year to 20th January 1877 „ 20th January 1878 „ 20th January 1879 .. 20th January 1880 „ 20th January 1881 £ s. 346 10 346 10 315 0 94 10 283 10 Members. Ordinary Licentiates less Examiners’ fees. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 0 619 10 0 1,034 18 0 0 425 5 0 1,505 13 0 0 409 10 0 1,734 1 0 0 588 0 0 1,954 13 0 0 598 10 0 1,844 17 0 Joint Licentiates with College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. Joint Licen- tiates with Faculty of Physicians, Glasgow, less Examiners’ fees. Amount from Licentiates. £ s. d. 150 0 0 450 0 0 850 0 0 1,000 0 0 1,250 0 0 £ s. d. 67 16 0 73 16 0 59 0 0 205 0 0 217 0 0 £ s. d. 1,252 14 0 2,029 9 0 2,643 1 0 3,159 13 0 3,311 17 0 Note.—Each Fellow on election pays a diploma stamp of 25?. to Government. 3. The other sources of Income, and the annual amount of Income therefrom : — Income from Investments : — Year to 20th January 1877 ------- „ 20th January 1878 „ 20th January 1879 ------ „ 20th January 1880 „ 20th January 1881 ------ £ s. d. - 1,336 15 9 - 1,333 9 8 - 1,346 0 1 - 1,434 7 4 - 1,460 13 2