Report on the final examinations in medicine, surgery, and midwifery of the University of Glasgow / by the visitor, Dr. Donald Macalister, and the inspector, Dr. G.F. Duffey, appointed by the General Medical Council.

  • MacAlister, Donald, 1854-1934.
Date:
[1894]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report on the final examinations in medicine, surgery, and midwifery of the University of Glasgow / by the visitor, Dr. Donald Macalister, and the inspector, Dr. G.F. Duffey, appointed by the General Medical Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

    10/30 (page 10)
    fractures, bandaging, mstruments, &c. Each pair of Examiners examined about thirty-five Candidates on each day. The Exam- ination was held in two separate rooms, one of the Professors and an extern Examiner sitting in each. In each room were a number of male patients, and an assortment of various appliances and apparatus, splints, bandages, &c. The patients bore con- secutive numbers, and each had a card on which was printed the name of a fracture. The Candidate was given a number, and then proceeded to put up the fracture which the correspond- ing patient was supposed to have. The Candidates were questioned as to the objects they desired to attain' by the methods of treatment they adopted ; the nature of the displacement of the fragments in the different fractures, and the manner in which such displacements were caused ; the length of time the different appliances should be left on; and similar practical questions. Some of the Candidates were also directed to apply special bandages—e.g., a capeline—or to bandage the hand and arm to above the elbow, and put the arm in a sling. Both Examiners acted together, but generally questioned the Candi- dates alternately. One of the Professors and his Assessor occasionally asked a few questions on instruments; the other Professor did not examine on these, as he did not attach great importance to such knowledge. He was particular, however, in ascertaining that the Candidates could, as far as possible, make their own appliances for the treatment of fractures, &c., and with this object many Candidates were required to mould and cut out from sheets of poro-plastic felt and india-rubber the splints, &c., they required. There was no time-limit for the Examination. The Professors arranged among themselves as to the days upon which each, with his Assessor, should conduct the Clinical Examination proper. The Inspector was present on June 14, when Prof. Macewen and Dr. Barlow were the Examiners ; and the Visitor on June 25, when Prof. Buchanan and Dr. Barlow examined. On the first of these days the twelve Candidates whose ex- amination in Clinical Medicine the Inspector had attended on the preceding day were examined. Provision was made against the Candidates having any previous knowledge of the patients