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BIRMINGHAM.—In the faculty of medicine an important change in the organisation of clinical teaching is being made. Hitherto this branch of teaching has been quite outside the control of the University. A clinical board appointed by the staffs of the Queen's and General Hospitals has directed the teaching and collected and administered the fees of students. In future the clinical board is to consist of nine members, of whom five will be appointed by the University and four by the two hospitals. The board will arrange all details of clinical teaching, and will nominate to the council of the University persons in the hospitals to act as clinical teachers, who will become members of the University staff. The fees for this teaching will be paid to and administered by the University. In consequence of the new arrangement, medical studies will be recognised by the Board of Education as a “technical” subject, in aid of which a grant of money may be made—a privilege which could not be allowed so long as a part of the medical curriculum lay outside the control of the University.
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University and Educational Intelligence . Nature 86, 435–437 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/086435a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/086435a0