Calendar: 1857-1858 Page 178
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178 MEDICAL DEPARTMENT Out-Patient Dressers shall be matriculated students who have attended diligently six months' surgical practice The examination of Out-Dressers shall be pass examination to consist of two divisions 1st viva voce principally in Anatomy 2d written principally Surgical in both cases having par- ticular reference to the nature of out-patient surgery No student failing in the first division shall be admitted to the second They shall all attend punctually on the days of the surgeon under whom they may be serving for the purpose of dressing patients in the surgery and registering the patients under the direction of the surgeon or assistant-surgeon in attendance The choice of Dressers is subject to the rules laid down in the case of Out-Patient Clerks If any Out-Patient Dresser is by any cause prevented from attending temporarily to his duties he shall provide sub- stitute approved by the Surgeon under whom he is serving In-Patient Dressers -There shall be six In-Patient Dressers two for each Surgeon Candidates must have attended six months' In-Patient Surgical practice The most proficient Candidates shall be elected but in case of equality the preference shall be given to those who shall have served the office of Out-Patient Dresser for the full period of six months to the satisfaction of the surgeons The examination shall be pass examination and shall con- sist of viva voce and written examination-the former prin- cipally Anatomical the latter Surgical having particular reference to the nature of in-patient surgery Candidates shall also if required take case or cases chosen by the surgeons from patients in the house at the time of exami- nation In-Patient Dressers shall dress and register the cases ad- mitted into the Hospital under the direction of the Surgeon or House Surgeon and on the taking-in days of the Surgeon under whom they may be serving the senior Dressers shall be in readiness to discharge the duties of the House Surgeon in the event of his absence from the Hospital
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