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4. That he has subsequently to the date of registration been
engaged in professional study for at least four years.
5. That he has attended courses of instruction in the following
general subjects of a recognized medical school: (a) Chemistry,
with laboratory instruction, for at least five months, and Physics,
with laboratory instruction, for at least two and a half months;
(b) Human Anatomy—Lectures, for at least five months; (c)
Dissections, Avith demonstrations, for ten months (d) Physiology,
;
with laboratory instruction, for five months (e) Surgery, includ-
;
ing Surgical Pathology, for five months; (f) Medicine, including
Medical Pathology, for five months
; (g) The practice of a recog-
nized General Hospital, with certified instruction in Clinical Sur-
gery and Clinical Medicine, for a period of at least twelve months.
The requirements which American graduates have most diffi-
culty in satisfying are embodied in Section 5 of the foregoing,
and the important question is—how are these difficulties sur-
mounted? I think a good man, not afraid of work, if he can get
over the preliminary examination difficulty, might manage to get
in the balance of the curriculum in one year—though it really
means hard work. As regards the purely dental part of the cur-
riculum, the college recognizes qualifying courses of instruction
given at any reputable school, so there is usually no difficulty about
that part, the only exception perhaps being Comparative Dental
Anatomy. At any rate, all subjects can be overtaken in twelve
months, the first professional examination certainly should be passed
at the end of that time and if the candidate is- an exceptionally good,
;
earnest student, the final also is possible.
You should understand that here we have three bodies con-
cerned in dental education, viz:
1. The Medical Council, which prescribes the curriculum and
keeps the dental register.
2. The Royal College of Surgeons, which conducts the exam-
ination and grants the diploma.
The Dental Hospital and School, which provides the
3.
instruction.
This multiplication and complexity of governing bodies is not
easily understood by your graduates, accustomed to a simpler order
of things."
"Belgrade, Servia.
"The Servian Law requires the same
Servia. qualifications from dentists as from prac-
tising physicians, viz. : Par. 9. of the
amended Law of 1904 relative to physicians says : 'Every physician,
including dentists, who desires to obtain the right to freely practise
in Servia, has to be a Servian citizen, must have graduated as
doctor of medicine, or possess certificate from a medical college of