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service. The instruction is separate from that given to under-graduates and
is imparted to Assistant Surgeons at the Medical College, Calcutta, and to
Sub-Assistant Surgeons at the Campbell Medical School, Calcutta, and at
the Medical School, Dacca. In the Bombay Presidency no regular post
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graduate course for either class exists though immediately on recruitment
Sub-Assistant Surgeons are given practical training as House Surgeons or
Physicians at the General Hospitals in Poona and Ahmedabad, and a short
course in Hygiene. While Sub-Assistant Surgeons in the United Provinces
are given no such training, Assistant Surgeons have to take up in two ins
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talments a course each of three months' duration at the King George's
Medical College, Lucknow, between the fourth to seventh and tenth to
fourteenth years of their service. Failure to attend the first course within
the first eight years of service and the second within fifteen years of service
renders the Assistant Surgeons concerned liable to stoppage of further in
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crements. In the Punjab also Sub-Assistant Surgeons are given no post
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graduate training, though the system is in force for Assistant Surgeons,
who have to undergo two courses each of 3 months' duration at the King
Edward Medical College, Lahore, at the end of the fifth and tenth year of
service respectively. An examination is held at the conclusion of each course.
Instruction in hospital courses is imparted along with under-graduates,
but in other subjects separate classes are held. In Bihar both classes of
doctors have to undergo post-graduate training, which lasts for three months
between the 5th and 7th and 12th and 14th year of service for Assistant
Surgeons and between the 6th and 8th and 13th and 15th year of service
for Sub-Assistant Surgeons. The instruction is given separately to gra
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duates and under-graduates, for the former attend the Medical College
Hospital, Patna, and the latter the Medical School Hospital, Darbhanga.
An examination is held at the end of each course. With minor variation of
details almost a similar system obtains in the Central Provinces where Sub
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Assistant Surgeons are given training at the Robertson Medical School,
Nagpur, and Assistant Surgeons at the Medical College, Calcutta. In
Assam the system of giving post-graduate training to Assistant Surgeons is
in abeyance due to financial stringency, but it is given to Sub-Assistant
Surgeons, who have to undergo two courses each of 3 months' duration
between the 4th and 7th year of service and between the 11th and 14th
year of service. The instruction is given at the Campbell Medical School,
Calcutta, separately from that imparted to under-graduates and an exami
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nation is held at the end of each course. In Sind the system of imparting
post-graduate training to Sub-Assistant Surgeons obtains on much the same
lines since 1930 as in Bombay, while the scheme for Assistant Surgeons has
not been worked at all since they have not taken advantage of the system.
Orissa follows the same procedure as in Bihar except that Sub-Assistant
Surgeons are trained at the Cuttack General Hospital. In the North-West
Frontier Province Assistant Surgeons have to attend a three months'
course at the Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar, before-completion of 5 and
10 years of their service. An examination is held at the end of the course.
No such system of instruction exists for Sub-Assistant Surgeons, though the
latter possessing licentiates' qualification only have to appear at written
and oral professional examinations after 5, 10 and 15 years' service.