Calendar: 1865-1866 Page 217

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 217 the Clerks to the Assistant Physicians for the diseases of women and children the Practice of Medicine required shall have relation chiefly to these diseases The viva voce exami- nation shall be chiefly in Anatomy The Clerks shall attend regularly at the respective hours and on the days of the Physician under whom they are appointed They shall register and prescribe in turn for the Out-Patients under the direction of their respective Physicians In-Patient Clinical Clerks -There shall be six In-Patient Clinical Clerks two for each Physician Candidates must have served the office of Out-Patients Clerk for the period of six months and have attended six months' in-patient Medical Practice The viva voce examination shall be chiefly in Anatomy and Morbid Anatomy the written examination in Materia Medica and in the Practice of Medicine Candidates shall also if required take case or cases chosen by the Physicians from patients in the house at the time of examination In-Patient Clinical Clerks shall attend regularly at the hour appointed accompany the Physician during his visit and keep correct report of all the cases belonging to the Physician under whom they respectively serve In every medical case upon which post-mortem exami- nation is held the Clerk under whose care the patient has been shall immediately after the holding of such exami- nation furnish an abstract of the case to the Pathological Registrar Physician's Assistant -A student shall not be elected to this office at period later than six years from the time of his Ma- triculation in the Medical Department be shall be qualified at the date at which his duties commence by some diploma to practise Medicine and shall have served to the satisfaction of the Physicians the office of In-Patient Clinical Clerk for the full period of six months He shall previously to his appoint- ment produce certificate of moral character to the satis- faction of the Committee of Management He shall before entering upon office pay the sum of 30 for board during his six months' residence in the Hospital