A Medical Qualification.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXIV, Issue 7480, 1 April 1899, Page 3

A Medical Qualification.

| In reply to a question asked, a competent authority says:— The qualifications mentioned are registrable, and entitle the holder to all the privileges of a registered qnalified practitioner. There is no direct connection, therefore, between the colleges or corporations and the universities. The relative values of these qualifications differ according to the standard of examination required by the body that grants it, and the standard may rise and fall according to the demand made by the University Senates or the College Councils. It will thus be seen that the universities and the colleges are competing bodies, and their qualifications, certificates of proficiency in the same or Bimilar branches of knowledge, cannot be said the one to in lude or cover the other, though university degrees are generally considered superior to the licentiates or memberships of colleges, though this really depends on the particular university granting the degree. In reply to the question does M.D. degree cover the qualifications M.R.C.S. (Kng.), L.R.C.P. (Lon.), I have to state that it does not. The qualifications are granted by entirely different bodies Degrees In medicine can only be granted by universities, while other qualifications merely denote that a person has passed a satisfactory examination entitling him to be admitted to certain corporations, e.g., the College of Snrgeons, England, or Ireland, or Scotland, or to a College of Physicians of the same places. The examination for admission to these colleges, however, entitles the successful candidate to admission to the Medical Register, just as much as a university M.B. or M.D. does, and hence confusion may arise in the lay mind.