Calendar: 1876-1877 Page 253

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 251 Clerk or Dresser to Physician or Surgeon to In-patients unless he shall have previously passed the Primary Exami- nation at the Royal Collge of Surgeons The Examination shall be conducted on the first day by viva voce questioning and on the second day by written papers No one who does not pass the viva voce shall be admitted to the written examination The selection shall always be according to merit at these examinations but in case of equality the election shall be according to seniority on the Hospital Register Special Certificates will be given to each Student who shall have filled any office in King College Hospital to the satis- faction of the Medical Officer or Officers under whom he may have served Application for such certificates must be made to the Dean on the expiration of the period of service No Student shall receive certificate who has not attended regularly during the entire six months of his appointment except the Clerks to the Physician and Assistant-Physician for Diseases of Women and Children who shall severally remain in office for three months only If from any cause any gentleman shall be obliged to resign his appointment he shall immediately give notice in writing both to the Dean of the Medical Department and to the Secretary of the Hospital If any Resident Medical Officer or his Assistant be pre- vented temporarily from attending to his duty he shall apply for leave of absence to the Committee in writing in sufficient time to enable them to consider the same at their next ensu- ing meeting If the emergency of the case is so pressing as to prevent this being done the reasons for which must be stated in the application the Secretary is authorized to act upon it and report it to the Committee at their next meeting Every such application shall state the name of the gentleman whom the applicant proposes shall supply his place and shall be initialed by the Physician or Surgeon of the day in token of his approval No Resident Medical Officer shall be absent from the Hos-