Observations by the Senatus Academicus of the University of Aberdeen, relative to the establishment of new examining boards, proposed to the General Medical Council by its Committee on Professional Education, 1869.

  • University of Aberdeen.
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[1870]
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    SE natus academicus OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN, RELATIVE TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW EXAMINING BOARDS, PROPOSED TO THE GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL BY ITS COMMITTEE ON PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION, 1869. The Senatus Academicus of tills University having had under their consideration that part of the Report of the Committee of the General Medical Council on Professional Education (1869) which relates to the proposal to establish a new Ex- amining Board for each division of the kingdom, have now, in compliance with the request of the Committee, to submit their observations on that proposal. The proposed scheme, as contained in the 22nd clause of the Report, will at once sweep away, as licences, the whole oi those qualifications to practise by the possession of which the members of the medical profession in the three kingdoms are now recognised by law, and by which they are known to the public to be members of that profession. Before a scheme so sweeping and revolutionary can be considered as called for, it is necessary in the first place to be assured that it is required in order to remedy the deficiencies of the present system of admission into the profession. These are generally admitted to be the existence of incomplete, or half, qualifications; that the student, in order to obtain a complete qualification, is subjected to the inconvenience and expense of having to go before two separate Boards, one giving the Medical the other the Surgical half of the quali- fication which he requires in order to render him, in the eye of the law, fully qualified for practice; and that the Boards conferring the right to practise are too numerous.