Transactions of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh Volume 9 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: important features, some in more detail, others in outline, leaving a considerable amount to be filled in by the clinical teacher. Professor Annandale remarked that it was always pleasant to find enthusiastic young teachers bringing forward their views upon medical education. He was of opinion that students, before commencing the study of medicine and surgery, should be obliged to have passed their examinations in the preliminary subjects. If this was done, the student's mind and time would be free to study medicine and surgery. He approved of limited and condensed systematic lectures, and he also approved of some reform in clinical teaching, in the direction of more bedside work. Mr A. G. Miller remarked on two points. In regard to the student's system of too close note-taking, he agreed with Mr Cathcart that it was bad for the students, and very unpleasant and inconvenient for the lecturer. He considered that the practice arose from the students' fear that they would not pass their examinations unless they were able to " get up" the ipsissima verba of their teachers. There was another point?to which Mr Cathcart had not, however, referred?which was an evil, viz., overlapping. For example, in the subject of inflammation, students got the physiological, pathological, medical, and surgical aspects dinned into them by so many different teachers till they were quite sick of the subject, and generally thoroughly confused. Mr Cathcart briefly replied. Meeting VI.?February 19, 1890. Professor A. R. Simpson, President, in the Chair. DISCUSSION ON THE PHYSIOLOGY OF EDUCATION. Dr John Strachan, Dollar, in opening the discussion, said,? If an apology were needed for introducing in a medical society a subject dealing with the work of another profession it would be sufficien...