Calendar: 1881-1882 Page 278

medical department 279 No one who does not pass the viva voce shall be admitted ο the written examination The selection shall always be tccording to merit at these examinations but in case of quality the election shall be according to seniority on the hospital Register Special Certificates will be given to each Student who shall lave filled any office in King's College Hospital to the satis- action of the Medical Officer or Officers under whom he nay have served Application for such certificates must 1e 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 Physicians for Diseases of Women and Children and Physicians-Accoucheur who shall sever- ally 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 tenting 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 Hospital Committee in writing in sufficient time to enable them to consider the same at their next ensuing 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 of the Hospital is authorised to act upon it and report it to the Committee at their next meeting Every such application shall state the name of the gentleman wrhom 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- pital at the same time as his corresponding Assistant except in the case of the Physician-Accoucheur's Assistant when summoned to Labour