THE POLICY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON IN RELATION TO LONDON MEDICAL EDUCATION AND MEDICAL SCIENCE

Abstract

Since the policies pursued in the three great University ?entres of Edinburgh, and Cambridge present ?distinctive features, the policy of the University of London in relation to medical education was in my last article inferentially contrasted with that of the two great ^Universities of Edinburgh and of Cambridge, by whose prosperity that of London has undoubtedly been most affected. The comparison with Cambridge in particular was specially invited by the original basis of the Univer sity of London, namely, that it was : A Board of examiners to perform all the functions of the examiners in the Senate of Cambridge, this body to -be termed the * University of London ' (1835). . It was further invited by the additional important statute passed in 1854 : To extend the rights enjoyed by the graduates of Oxford and Cambridge in respect to the practice of physic to the graduates of the University of London ?an act by which the degree of M.B. in the University of London ^became recognized as a licence to practise?and the University was placed on the same terms as other ^universities. The comparison was further invited by the last Charter -of the University of London (1898), by which the various medical schools in London were affiliated to the University of London and recognized as constituent colleges w of the University, in much the same way, it is alleged, as the various colleges of Cambridge, while financially inde pendent, are related to the University of Cambridge?but -erroneously, so alleged, since in Cambridge the University .provides all the laboratories and expenses required for medical education, while in London the University leaves -everything to its medical schools.