Universities India

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Language: eng
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Tags: India, education, history
Published: 1857-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

7. In -conclusion, I would' beg again to refer, to the subject of Clinical Instruction. It appears to me, that it would not be incompatible with the Knlea of the University, if that of one-rear's attendance should be carried! to authorize the system at present pursued in the Grant College to continue by a Bye-Law, This Institution being only a School for Professional Education, of which there may hereafter be more in the Presidency, they might* consistently regulate such matters by Bye-Laws, provided the curriculum were not less comprehensive, and that it exacted all required by the Regulations of the University. Surely it might require'more, without deranging the uniformityjof the Universities.

I propose this with diffidence, not knowing whether such an arrangement could be sanctioned by authority, but in the event of one year's attendance on Clinical Instruction and Hospital Practice becoming the rule cf the University, I see no other way of the present stem of 'the Grant College, so esentially necessary to a proper Medical Education, being carried on, and my anxiety to preserve it has caused this suggestion.

(Signed) y. DON, ar, n* The 3I«i August 1855.

BOMBA.T, "1

APPENDIX B.

I Sxi B read with much attention the Draft Beport of the Sub-Cominittee of Medicine, formed for the purpose of framing Bules for the' Calcutta University.

2. Upon the geUeraTquestion of "the applicability of the Eegulations of the University of London to the present state of Medical Education in this Presidency, it -may not perhaps be expected that I should express my opinion.

3. But if the Rules of the Sub-Committee, founded upon these Eegulations, are to be extended to Bombay,-1 would venture to express my belief that, in one essential particular, they will be found ill-suited to ensure that amount of proficiency necessary to qualify the Native young men of this Presidency for independent ^practice.

4. The defect to which I particularly refer is the small amount of practical instruction in a Hospital required for the Degree of Graduate of Medicine.

5. The period of Hospital attendance, laid down by the Sub-Committee, for acquiring a practical knowledge of the Medical Profession, is one year in Medicine and one year in Surgery. No provision is made rendering it imperative that students should have filled the office of Clinical Clerk and Surgical Dre3ser.

6. Whatever opinion may be entertained, by the Medical Authorities in Europe, as to the adequacy of this period'of practical instruction, an experience of more, than seven years, as a Clinical Teacher, warrants the expressioii of my full conviction, that it will be found altogether insufficient to qualify tho Native youths of thjs country to practise Medicine with benefit to their fellow-countrymen.

7. Looking at the small amount of preliminary training, at the very imperfect develop* ment of the powers of observation, at the tendency, to inaccurate habits of reasoning from cause to effect, by which the bulk of our students of Medicine are characterized, it is, I would venture to say, scarcely reasonable- to suppose that an amount of practical instruction sufficient to qualify "European students will also be found adequate to qualify the young men of this country.

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