Talk:University of Glasgow Medical School

History

The history of medical education in Glasgow is long and distinguished, and is not adequately summarised in either the main article or the linked medical school web page. The following brief account should be amplified by someone better informed.

There was historically rivalry between the University of Glasgow and the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons (later to become the Royal Faculty and in the 1960s the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow) and there was prolonged litigation when the University insituted a course for the Master of Surgery degree early in the 19th century, as a shorter alternative to the Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), as the F.P.S.G. claimed sole rights to grant qualifications in surgery. This was overtaken by legislation.

Like the other British universities, Glasgow changed from awarding an M.D. as the initial qualification to giving combined degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Surgery (M.B., C.M.) for some decades until another distinct higher qualification was set up in surgery, and the qualifying degrees then became Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (M.B., Ch.B.). More recently Glasgow may have led the way in abandoning the Ch.M. and extending the M.D. to research in all branches of medical science, including surgery.

When the University moved from the East to the West End, the Western Infirmary was set up as the new teaching hospital. The Royal Infirmary's (similarly unpaid) physicians and surgeons carried on giving clinical instruction as St Mungo's School of Medicine, which must at some point have become integrated with the University's medical school.

There was a separate medical school within Anderson's College, the precursor of Strathclyde University. Its students latterly obtained the "Triple Qualification" of L.R.C.P. Edin., L.R.C.S. Edin., L.R.F.P.S. Glas. from the three Royal Colleges. This school attracted large numbers of overseas students, at least in part because some American medical schools operated quotas to limit the numbers of Jewish students. Like the other non-university medical schools, this was closed down early in the Second World War and not reactivated afterwards.

The inclusion of the huge municipal (previously parochial) hospital system in undergraduate medical education began when Dr Noah Morris was appointed as Professor of Materia Medica by the University but refused beds by the physicians of both the Western and the Royal Infirmaries. The city's Medical Officer of Health, Sir Alexander MacGregor, offered him facilities at Stobhill Infirmary.

The post-war years saw a falling off in the numbers of undergraduates from abroad, which was more than balanced by the holding of membership and fellowship examinations on a massive scale, and in recent years the expansion of postgraduate courses targetted likewise at overseas students. NRPanikker 03:38, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

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