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ings or schools" grouped conveniently together in the University area; Anatomy includes Histology and Embryology, Physiology includes Pharmacology, and Pathology includes Bacteriology. Each department is in charge of a Professor of the University.
Instruction in Materia Medica and Pharmacy, Hygiene and Public Health, and Forensic Medicine, is given by officers of the Government Medical Service who are appointed as part-time Lecturers. There are no University departments.
10. In the clinical subjects there are departments of Medicine, of Surgery, of Midwifery, and of Diseases of Women, and instruc- tion is given at the new Government Hospital and at the separate Out-Patient department which formerly formed part of the old Civil Hospital, which are placed freely at the service of the University for teaching purposes. Each department is in charge of a whole-time Professor of the University. The clinical Professors are also consultants to the Government in their respective subjects. Instruction in Ophthalmology, Radiology, Venereal Diseases, Mental Diseases, Anaesthetics, and Vaccina- tion is given by specialist officers of the Government Medical Service who are serving in the Hospitals and are appointed by the University as Lecturers in their respective subjects.
11. The University thus depends on the Government Medical Department for the provision of clinical facilities as well as per- sonnel for teaching in essential parts of the medical curriculum. It is gratifying to record that the Director of Medical Services, as Head of the Service, willingly co-operates with the University and extends to it every help and assistance within his power.
ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, AND PATHOLOGY.
12. Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology are each in charge of a whole-time Professor, and a well-organised and ably conducted course of instruction is provided in each subject.
13. Anatomy. The Professor of Anatomy had resigned in 1935 and the Chair was vacant for a year, during which temporary arrangements were made locally until a new incumbent was appointed. The provision made for instruction in Histology and Embryology is greatly improved. The junior staff has been
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increased, and in the portion of the Anatomy rooms formerly utilised for operative Surgery, a laboratory for Histology has been organised. Other improvements also have been made in the arrangements for the mortuary, the dissecting room, and the Museum. A comprehensive course of descriptive Anatomy asso- ciated with regional Anatomy demonstrations has been organised by the new Professor. The students spend three hours daily in dissecting, and progress is checked by periodic viva voce examina- tions, and a record kept of the results both for junior and senior students. The entire cadaver is dissected. Schemes are under consideration for teaching surface and X-ray Anatomy of the living body and by screen demonstrations in association with the Radiologist to the Hospital.
14. Physiology. There is little change to be reported in the department of Physiology. The course of instruction covers two years for junior and senior students, and includes systematic lectures, practical Physiology and Chemical Physiology, and in addition clinical demonstrations for junior and senior students. In the exercises of the practical course the aim is to train students so that when they leave the department they possess not only a knowledge of the subject but also a knowledge of how to apply it in the wards. The clinical demonstrations given by the Professor are a feature of the department. Often a patient is brought from the wards and used as a basis for discussion. The classes are attended by the staff as well as the students. I took the oppor- tunity to visit one of the clinical demonstration classes, and was impressed with the excellence and practical nature of the teaching and the interest shown by those attending.
15. Pharmacology is part of the department, and instruction was formerly given by a separate Lecturer in this subject. This post was vacant in 1933, and the Professor of Physiology had taken charge and correlated the teaching with Physiology. The position has not changed since 1933, and it has not been possible to develop the experimental aspect of the course owing to lack of funds.
16. Pathology. The general plan of instruction had not been changed since my last visit. The course includes elementary
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