Science in Medical Education

Abstract

THE discussion at the British Medical Association on July 1 on the place of preliminary science in the medical curriculum seemed to indicate practical unanimity on some points, such as the need for a higher minimum standard of general education, the raising of the minimum age for the registration of medical students to seventeen years, and the necessity for the maintenance of a high standard of instruction in physics, chemistry, and biology. There was no indication of the desire on the part of any one of the speakers to reduce the present standard of requirements in any one of these three fundamental sciences, and several suggestions were put forward for extending the courses of each of them into the later years of medical study.