Abstract
THE issue of the modestly named paper before us marks a new stage in the relation of the State to English education. In no merely official style, but with the breadth and freshness of outlook proper to a prophet of reform, Sir George Newman reviews the “undone vast” in the training of medical practitioners for national service. He gives due credit to the great achievements of English medicine, as they have been wrought out by private enterprise, for until comparatively late years the schools of medical craftsmanship were in their essence proprietary, and their system was but a modified apprenticeship. In Scotland doctors were trained at the universities and caught something of the university spirit. The last generation has seen a change, in provincial England at least: London is still in the stage of painful emergence. When grants to the medical schools were first made by the Board of Education in 1908, the State necessarily assumed the duty of watching their application to productive uses. A universities branch of the Board was formed, and Sir George Newman became its medical assessor. His admirable contribution to “Reconstruction” is the fruit of his official surveys of the present state and future needs of the English schools.
Article PDF
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Medical Education in England 1 . Nature 102, 67–69 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/102067a0
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/102067a0