scholarly journals Thomas Graham Brown, 1882-1965

1966 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 22-33 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Medical Student ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Royal Navy ◽  
The Family ◽  
Reflex Movement ◽  
The University ◽  
Edinburgh Medical

Thomas Graham Brown was a neurophysiologist well known in the twenties for the detailed studies of reflex movement and posture which he made by Sherrington’s methods, and perhaps better known in the thirties as the redoubtable climber who had found several new routes to the summit of Mont Blanc. He was born in 1882 in Edinburgh. His father, Dr J. J. Graham Brown, was to be President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1912 and was related to several of the eminent doctors who had maintained the reputation of the Edinburgh Medical School throughout the nineteenth century. It was natural therefore that the son should be trained to medicine and should go to his father’s school, the Edinburgh Academy, and afterwards to the University as a medical student. There were four children in the family, Thomas, the eldest, a brother who became a Captain in the Royal Navy, one who became an architect and one sister. The two elder boys used sometimes to sail with their father in the yacht which he shared with a friend, and in Thomas the interest revived when he was too old for climbing but could still make long cruises in a small motor boat. When he was a schoolboy he was fond of swimming and diving, skating and golf, but there was a period when his eyesight was troublesome and he was sent to an oculist friend of his father in Wiesbaden to be treated and to learn German.

scholarly journals Structured medical electives: a concept whose time has come?

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Willott ◽  
Eva Khair ◽  
Roger Worthington ◽  
Katy Daniels ◽  
A. Mark Clarfield
Keyword(s):  
Medical Student ◽  
Medical School ◽  
International Health ◽  
Current Medical ◽  
Global North ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Travel Abroad ◽  
The University ◽  
North And South

Abstract Background Most international electives in which medical students from high-income countries travel abroad are largely unstructured, and can lead to problematic outcomes for students as well as sending and receiving institutions. We analyse the problems of unstructured medical electives and describe the benefits of an elective experience that includes more organisation and oversight from the sending medical school. Results A number of structured elective programmes have been developed, including those at the Medical School for International Health, Israel and the University of Dundee, United Kingdom. These programmes provide significant pre-departure training in global health and the ethical dimensions of electives, support and monitoring during the elective, and post-elective debrief. Crucially, the programmes themselves are developed on the basis of long-term engagement between institutions, and have an element of reciprocity. We further identify two major problems in current medical electives: the different ethical contexts in which electives take place, and the problem of ‘voluntourism’, in which the primary beneficiary of the activity is the medical student, rather than the receiving institution or health system. These two issues should be seen in the light of unequal relations between sending and receiving institutions, which largely mirror unequal relations between the Global North and South. Conclusion We argue that more structured elective programmes could form a useful corrective to some of the problems identified with medical electives. We recommend that medical schools in countries such as the UK strongly consider developing these types of programmes, and if this is not possible, they should seek to further develop their pre-departure training curricula.

Edinburgh and Paris

2019 ◽  
pp. 107-155
Author(s):  
Bill Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Paris was the most important centre for evolutionary speculations in Europe in the early nineteenth century. Two of its most influential evolutionary thinkers, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire both worked there in the city’s Museum of Natural History. This chapter explores the impact of these French thinkers’ theories in Edinburgh and the close connections that existed between natural history circles in the two cities. It was common for students and graduates of the medical school of the University of Edinburgh to spend time studying in Paris, where they imbibed many of the exciting new ideas being discussed there. Two of the key figures discussed in this book, Robert Grant and Robert Knox, had both spent time in Paris and were deeply influenced by the theories they encountered there. The chapter also examines the impact of the key writings of Lamarck and Geoffroy in Edinburgh.

On the Necessity of all Medical Students attending a Course of Lectures and receiving Clinical Instruction also in Psychological Medicine

1885 ◽  
Vol 31 (133) ◽  
pp. 38-46
Author(s):  
Edward B. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Medical Student ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Mental Disease ◽  
Medical Studies ◽  
Clinical Instruction ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Psychological Medicine ◽  
The University

Few, I think, will attempt to deny that it is desirable that all medical students should attend a course of lectures on the important subject of Mental Disease. And further, that these lectures should be compulsory, no matter what the university or medical school may be at which the students matriculate, or where they may intend to take their degrees or diplomas. Some there are who may object to these lectures being compulsory, for the reason that this course of lectures would be the addition of another subject to the already lengthened curriculum of medical studies. I think we are all agreed that the medical student of the present day has enough, and more than enough, of subjects to occupy the short term of four years that is usually allotted to his studies.

On Being a Medical Student in the 1930s

1998 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-28
Author(s):  
R. H. Girdwood
Keyword(s):  
Medical Student ◽  
University Students ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Clinical Experience ◽  
Clinical Medicine ◽  
Royal Infirmary ◽  
The One ◽  
The University ◽  
Male House

From a Minute Book which has survived the years, an account is given of matters discussed by the Clinical Medicine Board of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in the 1930s. This Board consisted of the senior physicians in the hospital and the records give an indication of the excessively large number of students who were all having their clinical experience in the wards of the one hospital. In addition to the University students there were others studying for the Triple Qualification of the Royal Colleges. The pressure of this teaching on staff and patients was considerable. It was decided to transfer some of the tuition to Craigleith Hospital which became the Western General. In 1939 the male house doctors were awaiting their call-up. The administrators had to consider arrangements for the continuation of teaching if bombing took place. In March 1941 the Polish Medical School was organised in Edinburgh

scholarly journals Sisir Kumar Mitra, 1890-1963

1964 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 221-227
Keyword(s):  
Medical School ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
Christian College ◽  
Indian Woman ◽  
Scientific Career ◽  
Presidency College ◽  
The Third ◽  
Graduate Department ◽  
The Family ◽  
The University

Sisir Kumar Mitra was born at Konnagar, a suburb of Calcutta, on 24 October 1890. He was the third son of Joy Krishna Mitra, a school teacher. His mother had been trained at the Campbell Medical School in Calcutta, a rare qualification in those days for an Indian woman. After passing her examination in 1892, she obtained a post in the Lady Dufferin Hospital at Bhagalpur and the family moved to that town, Mitra’s father taking a post as a clerk in the local municipal offices. S. K. Mitra first went to school in Bhagalpur and there showed a serious interest in scientific studies. A few years later his two elder brothers died and his father became paralysed, and he would have had to leave school, had it not been for the insistence of his mother, an outstanding woman, that he should continue his education while she supported the family on her earnings from the hospital. After leaving school he went to the T.N.J. College, Bhagalpur, and from there in 1908 to Presidency College, Calcutta, where in 1912 he headed the list of successful candidates for the M.Sc. degree in physics. The financial circumstances of the family then compelled him to find paid employment and he started as a lecturer in the T.N.J. College at Bhagalpur, and later transferred to the Christian College, Bankura. At this time the University of Calcutta was rapidly developing along western lines, particularly in science and technology, and in 1916 Mitra was invited to become a lecturer in the newly formed post-graduate department of physics. This appointment at the age of 26 marked the start of his scientific career.

scholarly journals Kenneth Edwin Livingston M.D., D.A.B.N., F.A.C.S., F.R.C.S. (C) (1914 – 1984)

1985 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-76
Author(s):  
T. P. Morley
Keyword(s):  
Medical Student ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Memorial Hospital ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Lahey Clinic ◽  
Assistant Clinical Professor ◽  
The University ◽  
Naval Hospital ◽  
Neurosurgical Education ◽  
The U.S

Kenneth Livingston was born in 1914 in Pendleton, Oregon. He attended Stanford University and obtained his BA in 1936. His medical student days were spent at Harvard where he graduated MD in 1939.His neurosurgical education began in 1942 at Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, N.Y.; then, after two years at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Oakland, California, he was appointed to the Attending Staff at the Lahey Clinic in Boston from 1946-1948. He returned to Oregon as Assistant Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Oregon Medical School in 1948.

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