Calendar: 1858-1859 Page 181

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 181 Candidates for this office must have served the office of Clinical Clerk or of Clerk to the Out-Patients Such Assistant House Physicians as shall have performed their duties to the satisfaction of the Committee of Manage- ment and the Councd during six months shall if otherwise eligible be considered as having cceteris paribus claim to be elected to the office of Physicians' Assistant in preference to all Students except those who have served the office of Clinical Clerks previous to the Winter Session 1856-57 Assistant to the Physician Accoucheur -A senior pupil is selected by examination to take the charge of the Midwifery Department under the superintendence of the Physician Accoucheur The duties of the Physician Accoucheur's Assistant are as follows He shall have the immediate superintendence of all the Mid- wifery cases under the direction of the Physician Accoucheur He shall apportion the cases see that efficient arrangements are made for due attendance upon them and accompany the Students to their first cases He shall require daily report from the Students in attend- ance and himself visit at least once all the women who have been recently confined He shall keep an accurate record of the cases in the book send for the Physician Accoucheur in all cases of difficulty and be held responsible for immediately reporting all cases of irregularity or neglect He shall also whenever time permits assist in making such post mortem examinations and keeping records of such cases of interest in the Department for the Diseases of Women and Children as the Physician Accoucheur may need If the Assistant to the Physician Accoucheur is by any cause prevented from attending temporarily to his duties he shall provide substitute approved by the Physician Accoucheur Out-Patient Dressers -There shall be twelve Out-Patient Dressers who shall serve three months under each surgeon