Calendar: 1860-1861 Page 209

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 209 daily to occupy separate desk and see such patients as are allotted to him by the Physician in attendance Candidates for this office must have served the office of Clinical Clerk to the In-Patients 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 Council 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 -He shall be quali- fied by some Diploma to practice Medicine Surgery or Midwifery and shall have served the office of Out-patient or In-patient Clerk Candidates will be examined viva voce and by written papers in Midwifery 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 keep records of such cases of interest in the Department for the Diseases of Women and Children as the Physician Accoucheur may need He is to report to the Sub-Dean of the Medical Department ο