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

Warrington Yorke 1883-1943

1944 ◽  
Vol 4 (13) ◽  
pp. 523-545 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Student ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Clinical Medicine ◽  
Tropical Medicine ◽  
Royal Infirmary ◽  
Tropical Diseases ◽  
First Order ◽  
Black Water ◽  
The University ◽  
The Tropics

Warrington Yorke, who died on 24 April 1943, at the age of sixty, had been connected with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine for thirty-six years, and at the time of his death was one of the most outstanding figures in this field of medicine. During the years following his first appointment in 1907, he took an active part in the work and development of the School, and created for himself a reputation as a teacher and research worker of the first order. His influence was world-wide, and was never greater than at the time of his untimely death, which deprived tropical medicine of one of its most resolute and distinguished leaders. Born at Lancaster on 11 April 1883, Warrington Yorke was the eldest of four brothers and two sisters. His father was a Wesleyan minister—the Rev. Henry Lefroy Yorke, M.A., B.D. He received his early education at University School, Southport, where he was a pupil for ten years. Following this he spent three years at Epworth College, Rhyl. In 1900 he entered the University of Liverpool as a medical student, and there had a distinguished career, being awarded the Senior Lyon Jones Scholarship and the Derby Exhibition in Clinical Medicine. He obtained the degrees of M.B., Ch.B. in 1905 at the age of twenty-two, and was for six months house physician to Sir James Barr at the Royal Infirmary. Following this he was house surgeon at the same institution. In 1906 he was elected to the Holt Fellowship in Physiology, and studied under Sir Charles Sherrington, at whose suggestion he joined in 1907, the year in which he obtained the degree of M.D., the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, then in the ninth year of its history, and commenced his study of tropical diseases and parasitology which was to occupy his attention for the rest of his life. The enthusiasm with which he threw himself into the career he had chosen was well illustrated by his immediate acceptance of the invitation to accompany Wakelin Barratt to Nyasaland to study black-water fever. This was the nineteenth expedition of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine to the tropics for the purpose of investigating tropical diseases.

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.

John Hatton’s manuscript record of the surgical and pathological lectures given by Joseph Jordan, FRCS, in 1837–1838

2019 ◽  
pp. 096777201986694
Author(s):  
Peter D Mohr
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Royal Infirmary ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Manchester Royal Infirmary ◽  
Teaching Anatomy ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Manchester ◽  
Insight Into

John Hatton, LSA MRCS FRCS MD (1817–1871), was apprenticed from 1833 to Joseph Jordan, MRCS FRCS (1787–1873), a well-known Manchester surgeon. Jordan, who had been teaching anatomy since 1814, closed his Mount Street Medical School in 1834 and was elected as surgeon to the Manchester Royal Infirmary in 1835. He continued to lecture on surgery and surgical pathology at the Infirmary, and sometimes at the Pine Street Medical School run by Thomas Turner, LSA FRCS (1793–1873). During 1837–38 Hatton transcribed and illustrated these lectures in a bound manuscript and also added notes and drawings in his personal copy of The Dublin Dissector. He gained his Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries (LSA) in 1836 and Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS) in 1839 and set up in Manchester as surgeon from around 1840. This paper is based on three previously unrelated documents in the University of Manchester Archives: a handwritten catalogue of specimens in Jordan’s Anatomy Museum, Hatton’s annotated copy of The Dublin Dissector and his manuscript record of Jordan’s lectures. These documents provide a valuable insight into medical education during the 1830s.

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.

scholarly journals Identification of cohesive subgroups in a university hall of residence during the COVID-19 pandemic using a social network analysis approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pilar Marqués-Sánchez ◽  
Arrate Pinto-Carral ◽  
Tania Fernández-Villa ◽  
Ana Vázquez-Casares ◽  
Cristina Liébana-Presa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
University Students ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The One ◽  
Relationship Structure ◽  
The University

AbstractThe aims: (i) analyze connectivity between subgroups of university students, (ii) assess which bridges of relational contacts are essential for connecting or disconnecting subgroups and (iii) to explore the similarities between the attributes of the subgroup nodes in relation to the pandemic context. During the COVID-19 pandemic, young university students have experienced significant changes in their relationships, especially in the halls of residence. Previous research has shown the importance of relationship structure in contagion processes. However, there is a lack of studies in the university setting, where students live closely together. The case study methodology was applied to carry out a descriptive study. The participation consisted of 43 university students living in the same hall of residence. Social network analysis has been applied for data analysis. Factions and Girvan–Newman algorithms have been applied to detect the existing cohesive subgroups. The UCINET tool was used for the calculation of the SNA measure. A visualization of the global network will be carried out using Gephi software. After applying the Girvan–Newman and Factions, in both cases it was found that the best division into subgroups was the one that divided the network into 4 subgroups. There is high degree of cohesion within the subgroups and a low cohesion between them. The relationship between subgroup membership and gender was significant. The degree of COVID-19 infection is related to the degree of clustering between the students. College students form subgroups in their residence. Social network analysis facilitates an understanding of structural behavior during the pandemic. The study provides evidence on the importance of gender, race and the building where they live in creating network structures that favor, or not, contagion during a pandemic.

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.

scholarly journals Comparison of the University Students in Turkey and Central Asia with Regards to Their Characteristics of Thinking, Decision Making and Cognitive Closure

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 309-318
Author(s):  
Hasan Yilmaz
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
University Students ◽  
Thinking Styles ◽  
Cognitive Closure ◽  
Need For Cognitive Closure ◽  
Decision Making Styles ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The One ◽  
The University ◽  
Different Cultures

The aim of this study is to compare the Turkish, Uzbek and Kyrgyz university students with regards to their thinking and decision making styles and as well as their cognitive closure. 141 Turkish, 69 Uzbek and 89 Kyrgyz students at the Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University participated in the study. As the data collection tool, the 15-point version of the thinking styles scale, decision making styles scale and the need for cognitive closure scale were used. The data were examined with the one-way variance analysis and the T2 test of Scheffe and Tamhane was applied to find the source of the difference in groups where a difference was determined. As a result of the study, significant differences were found between the Turkish, Uzbek and Kyrgyz students in 11 of the 13 thinking styles and in 3 of the 5 decision making styles. The highest difference in 3 sample groups was found for the need for cognitive closure. The importance of knowing the thinking and decision making styles of different cultures as a prerequisite for intercultural communication and cooperation was highlighted and some recommendations were made on this matter.

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