(Regulation XXIX)
ADMIssIoN (Sections 1 and 17)
Before being admitted to the Degree Course in Medicine, students must have matriculated and passed the Preliminary Examination in Chemistry, Physics, and Biology, in accordance with the provisions of Regulation XXVIII. Provision is also made for the admission of graduates in other Faculties and students who have completed the first and second years of the course for the Degree of Bachelor of Science in this University.
Limitations of accommodation and teaching facilities, however, may cause the University to limit the admission of students to the Degree Course in any year.
Students will be required to submit to any selective process for admission found necessary.
Further details concerning admission are given on page 23.
ATTENDANCE AT LECTURES, DEMONSTRATIONS AND PRACTICAL Wоaк (Sections 2 and 4)
Attendances at lectures, demonstrations, practical work and clinical instruction are compulsory and, in addition; competent performance in carrying out the duties and work prescribed in all subjects is required. Failure to comply with these requirements may lead to disqualification from presenting at examinations. Students so disqualified will usually be notified in writing by the Faculty of Medicine, but the Faculty is not bound to give such notification. ,
Students prevented by illness or other serious cause from satisfying attendance requirements should report their absences to the Secretary, Medical Branch, Registrar's Office, so that dispensation may be granted by the Faculty, if necessary.
On commencing Division II students should purchase a Certificate Book at the Accounts Branch of the Registrar's Office. It is a student's responsibility to have the details of all certificates entered, the certificates signed by the authorized persons, and the Certificate Book submitted to the University at any time when asked for by he Registrar. No student will be permitted to present for the final M.B., B.S.
Examination unless all certificates have been signed by the authorized persons and the certificates submitted as evidence of the satisfactory completion of all details prescribed for the Degree Course.
The provisions in the details and time-table as to the number of lectures, tutorials, etc., and the hours of practical work are included for general guidance only, and may be modified by the Faculty without notice if the necessity arises.
VACATION READING
Students are advised that they are expected to use a considerable part of the vacations for reading purposes. In some cases specific references are made in the following details ; in others a list of suitable books will be posted on the appropriate notice boards; in all cases of doubt the lecturers concerned should be consulted.
HONOUR Wosu
Except in subjects where special details are published, the Syllabus for Honours will be the same as for Pass, but the Examination for Honours will require the candidates to attain a higher standard and to show more detailed knowledge.
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DIvIONs, SUBJECTS AND EXAMINATION
(Sections 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 11) Divisions
IA
II:
Subjects for Examination ANATOMY including
Histology and Embryology PHYSIOLOGY and
BIOCHEMISTRY • ANATOMY including
Histology and Embryology
PHYSIOLOGY including Pharmacology
BIOCHEMISTRY MATERIA MEDICA PRACTICAL
PHARMACOLOGY*
PATHOLOGY MICROBIOLOGY and EPIDEMIOLOGY
Times of Examination Annual Examination at the end of the First Year.
Annual Examination to be held dur- ing the Third Term of the Second Year.
Single Subjects. Examinations to be held about the beginning of the First Term of the Third Year.
Annual Examination to be held about the beginning of the Third Term of the Third Year.
III MEDICAL JURISPRU-
DENCE including
Nature and Function of Law
Forensic. Medicine Medical Ethics Insanity
MEDICINE including General Medicine
Therapeutics and Dietetics Paediatrics
Normal Psychology Psychiatry
Ophthalmology Dermatology Vaccination Epidemic Diseases Radiology Venereal Diseases Social Medicine SURGERY including
General Surgery Surgical Anatomy Anaesthetics Radiology
Diseases of Throat, Nose and Ear
Venereal Diseases Paediatrics
OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY
Single Subject. Examination to be held late in the Third Term of the Fourth Year.
Annual Examination at the end of the Fifth Year, and Supplementary Examination early in the Sixth Year.
•Тhе first course in this subject will commence in November 1961, and the &rat examination will be held in 1962.
ЕxлΡМINATIoNs
Apart from the Final M.B., В.S.- Examination, there are no supplementary examinations. At all examinations during the course certain students may be required to present for extra tests during the examination period. Students should consult departmental and clinical school notice boards for information about examinations.
Students will be admitted to the Final M.B., B.S. Supplementary Examina- tion only-on the recommendation of the Chairmen of the Boards of Examiners.
REPETITION OF YEARS (Sections 7 and 8)
Students who fail in the Sub-Division IA and Division I examinations may repeat the year only if permitted to do so.
Students who fail in these examinations twice, and those who, at their first attempt, perform in a manner considered to be unsatisfactory or who are absent from the examinations without an acceptable excuse, may be excluded from the course.
There are no restrictions upon repetition of Divisions II and III.
Repetition of a year involves repetition of all attendances and other require- ments in all subjects.
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DETAILS OF SUBJECTS AND BOORS FOR 1961 Note.—The books marked with an asterisk are essential books which students should possess.
DIVISION I, INCLUDING SUB-DIVISION IA ANATOMY
The subject includes Histology and Embryology.
(i) ANATOMY.
A course of lectures, demonstrations and practical work, during the First and Second Years.
The distribution of the lectures in the two Years is in accordance with announcements published in the Department of Anatomy.
РтлcтIcАL Wоaк. Each student must dissect the human body once. Certificated evidence must be produced that all dissections have been satisfactorily performed.
Students must supply themselves with dissecting instruments and a half-set of bones.
Bоoкs. Prescribed text-books:
*Gray,
1.—Text-Book of Anatomy.
(28th or subsequent ed., Longmans.) or *Lockhart, R. D., Hamilton, G. F., and Fyfe,F. W. Anatomy of the Human
Body.
(Faber, 1959.)*Cunningham, D. J.—Manual of Practical Anatomy, 3 vols. (10th or subsequent ed., O.U.P.)
(ii) HISTOLOGY AND EMBRYOLOGY.
A course of lectures and practical work throughout the First and Second Years.
PRACTICAL WoRx. Students are required to conduct practical work during the First and Second Years in accordance with a time-table published in the Department of Anatomy.
Students are supplied with slides against a deposit, a rental fee being charged.
Microscopes may be hired.
Booкs. (a) Prescribed text-books:
*Ham, A.
W.—Histology.
(3rd ed., Lippincott, 1957.]or *Maximow, A. A.,
and
Bloom,W.—Text Book of Histology.
(7th ed., Saunders, 1957.)*Patten, B.
M.—Hu,naň Embryology.
(2nd ed., Blakiston, 1953.) or *Arey, L. В.—Developmeпtаl .Аиаtомiy. (6th ed., Saunders, 1954.)70
(b) Prescribed for laboratory work:
*Arey, L. B. Human Histology. (Saunders, 1957.)
ExAMINATIONs. At the end of the First Year : Anatomy (Pass and Honours) : One 3-hour written paper, oral examination. Histology and _Embryology: One 3-hour written paper, oral examination.
At the end of the course in Second Year: Anatomy (Honours) : One 3-hour written paper covering the subject of Anatomy in full, oral examination. Anatomy (Pass): One 3-hour written paper covering the subject of Anatomy in full, oral examination. Histology and Embryology (Pass and Honours) One 3-hour written paper, oral examination.