ROTAROASSTM2SYSTEM 29 Rota System. POST-GRADUATE teaching in London has always presented difficulties. These difficulties have largely consisted in the multiplicity of hospitals, and also in the distances that have to be traversed in order to reach the various institutions. Up to comparatively recently, practically all the teaching has been connected with the large undergraduate Schools. For various reasons (which need not be entered into now) post-graduate teaching at these institutions has always been somewhat unsatisfactory, as at them, obviously, preference must be given to the undergraduates. Yet, at manv of the smaller hospitals, there is a vast amount of material, both medical and surgical, which would be extremely valuable for the purpose of post-graduate teaching. For some years the Fellowship of Medicine has been trying to utilize this material by holding periodical special courses at the outlying hospitals, and by issuing special tickets for these hospitals. While some of the special courses have been satisfactorily attended, it has been found that the methods hitherto adopted have not, on the whole, been altogether satisfactory. Experience has shown that, apart from the special courses, post-graduates have not made use of the general work of the hlospitals to which their membership of the Fellowship has entitled them. There have been various reasons for this that need not now be entered into. The Fellowship of Medicine is now attempting by a series of individual efforts to make the vast material of London available for post-graduates. A rota of such consultants on the staffs of the various hospitals who are willing to give facilities for post-graduate teaching is being formed. Each consultant will specify days in the year on which he is prepared to take a certain number of post graduates to his hospital and devote that visit to teaching in the wards, out-patient departments or in the operating theatre. The number of post-graduates attending each particular clinic will be limited at the discretion of the consultant concerned, so that it is hoped that individual tuition will be given to those post-graduates attending each clinic. It is hoped that means of transport to the hospital from some position in the West'End will be able to be arranged. In this way post-graduates will feel that their teachers are taking a personal interest in them, and only such teachers as are willing to undertake the work on these lines will be enrolled on the rota. It is also hoped to co-operate with some of the London County Council hospitals by holding special periodical special demonstrations, and also by appointing a limited number of clinical assistants attached to the institution for a short period. At these hospitals there is a really vast amount of material, and most excellent work is being done, much of it-indeed nearly all of it-neglected at the moment for teaching purposes. These arrangements will naturally take some little time to organize, and the expenses of so doing will not be inconsiderable. The one aim and object of the Fellowship of Medicine is to try and co-ordinate the enormous resources of material at present in London for post-graduate advancement. 30 SPECIAL COURSES Special Courses. THE first evening course for the F.R.C.S. (Final) Examination was organized a year ago. It was intended, should it prove successftul, to hold one coturse twice a year prior to each examination. The Fellowship originally planned to provide F.R.C.S. the candidates with an opportunity of studying an interesting group of (Final) cases especially suitable for the examination; of enjoying a certain Course. amount of "ragging" calculated to stimulate a mind clogged with book work. It was hoped also that these courses would meet the require- ments of those doctors, both men and women, who could not, for various reasons, attend the Hospital classes held during the daytime, but who would thus have a chance of familiarizing themselves with the general standard required by the College. It was found necessary to enlarge the original programme. Two courses are now held in the Spring and the Autumn. Last October a third Class was added to mneet the demand. The Fellowship feels that it has supplied valuable help to candidates for the examination, and in particular that it has been of assistance to those who were unable to take advantage of other classes. The next evening Courses will take place on Tuesdays, April 5 to May io, and on Thursdays, April 7 to May I2. It is advisable to register early, as already the demand has been very great, and the number of candidates enrolled for each Course will in no circumstances be allowed to exceed twenty-five. It may be mentioned that each course is quite separate, open to men and women, and that candidates may attend either or both if they so desire. The Fellowship of Medicine offers its very grateful thanks to the teachers taking part in these classes, for their kind and earnest co-operation, and congratulates them on the interesting choice of cases which they have demonstrated to the Post-Graduates. WE are pleased to announce that, following the success of the F.R.C.S. evening classes, we are arranging similar work in preparation for the M.R.C.P. examination. The first course will take place as follows: Six clinical demonstrations, M.R.C.P. Mondays and Fridays, February 22 to March ii, and two patho- Evening logical evenings, Monday, March 14, and Friday, March 19, at 8 p.m., Course. in the O.P. Department of the London Temperance Hospital, Halnpstead Road. Four lectures on Wednesdays, February 23, March 2, 9 and I6, at 8.30 p.m. at the Medical Society of London, ii, Chandos Street, Cavendish Square; one ophthalmic demonstration on Thursday, March 3, and one pathological and laboratory demonstration on Thursday, March 17. On the clinical and pathological evenings, five demonstrato-rs will attend, each providing two suitable cases (or specimens). The post-graduates will be divided into groups, and each demonstrator will take each group in turn, allowing the graduates to examine the cases, and then qllestioning them as though it were the examination room. The number of post-graduates attending the clinical and pathological demonstrations will be strictly limited to twenty-five, SPECIAL COURSES 31 but the number attending the Wednesday evening lectures will not be limited, and payment can, if desired, be made at the lecture room. The syllabus is in course of preparation and will be ready early in January, and will give full particulat-s, including the fees which are not yet definitely fixed. AT the request of several of our Members, a course of lectures on Endocrinology is in progress. These are being given by Dr. W. Langdon Brown, at the Medical Society of London, I, Cliandos Street, Cavendislh Square, at 8.30 p.m., on Endo- Mondays and Fridays (January II to 29). Single lectures may be crinology. attended if desired, at a fee of 12S. 6d., payable at the Lecture Room. Owing to the immense strides which ol-gano-therapy has made of late years and the rather complicated subject with which it deals, we think that these lectures will appeal to a great number of men aind women. AT a later date, evening courses will be organized in Ophthalmology, Dermatology, Electro-therapy and Infant Welfare. In the Ophthalmology classes, the cases presented will be not so much for the ophthalmologist as to meet the requirements Later of general practitioners and partictularly to put before them the treatment Courses. of minor conditions. We hope to ari-ange the Dermatology classes to take place ini one of the skin hospitals, where series of delonstrationss and lectures will be given by leading dermatologists. THE Electrotherapy classes will deal with the modern extension of the uses of light and radiant heat treatment. General practitioners in particular will appreciate the demonstrations of the apparatus in use and its value in treatment. ElectrPo We hope to obtain the co-opel-ation of some of the leading firms of manufacturers so that the management of the various classes of apparatus can be expertly demonstrated. Tie Infant Welfare Clinics will fill, we think, a long-felt want, as from the success crowning ally previous efforts it is obvious that this work is required and needs placing on a well-organized footing. 32 GENERAL POST-GRADUATE NEWS . General Post-Graduate News. LIST OF SPECIAL COURSES FOR I932. EARLY applicationI should be made for all Courses, to ensure admission or to avoid cancellation of the Course. A detailed syllabus of each Course is obtainable about one month before the Course begins. Specimen syllabuses of previous Courses can be obtained at any time on application. For further particulars regarding the Special Courses, and for information regarding Post-Graduate Medical Study, application should be made to: The Secretary, The Fellowship of Medicine, i, Wimpole Street, London, W.I. Endocrinology: January ii to 29.-Medical Society, 8.30 p.m. Mondays and Fridays. Fee £'3 3s., or I2S. 6d. per Lecture. Dermatology : January 25 to February 20.-St. John's Hospital. Every afternoon. Fee £fI is. (Practical Pathology arranged. Fee £4 4S.) Gynaecology: February I to I3.-Chelsea Hospitalfor Women. Mornings and/or after- noons. Fee £5 5s. Ante-Natal Treatment : February 5 to 26.-Royal Free Hospital. Fridays, 5 p.m. Fee ;I IS. Diseases of the Chest : February 8 to I3.-Brompton Hospital. All day. Fee $3 3s. Medicine, Surgery and the Specialities: February 15 to 27.-Prince of Wales General Hospital Group.