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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
3. The serious difficulty of carrying on the class examinations (at least one in three
meetings) in classes numbering 90 to 100 students has been overcome in this way. Students
attending their second course of Medicine are divided into two classes, examined half by
the Professor, half by the Assistant, who take the classes alternately after each group of six
lectures has been delivered. Students attending their first course are similarly divided and
similarly examined after every two lectures. All students, except those under examination by
the Assistant, attend the Professor's examinations.
4. The Junior Department students are examined once a week by the Assistant.
5. Dies have been prepared for the Chipperfield Medal, which is to be awarded annually
for Clinical Medicine, and the medal was awarded for the first time in 1881.
6. Brief clinical lectures have been delivered once a week in the General Hospital to the
students attending in the Medical Wards.
7. Anatomy .—Dissection of all parts of the human subject has been made necessary for
obtaining a certificate in Practical Anatomy.
8. Four salaried Assistant Demonstrators were appointed to aid in the teaching of Practical
Anatomy.
9. The hours for dissections—formerly 6 to 10 A.M . interfering most seriously with clini-
cal teaching in the hospitals—have been altered to 10 A.M. to 1 P.M.
10. Surgery.—[Two distinct courses, each containing a few lectures of an introductory
nature in common, have been substituted for one course repeated.]
11. [Instead of a six months' course in Surgery followed by a three months' course in
Operative and Minor Surgery, there will in future be a nine months' course, including both of
Surgery, the Professor arranging the subjects according to suitability for mutual illustration.]
12. A second teacher of Clinical Surgery was appointed at the General Hospital.
13. Physiology .—It was ordered that students of the Second Department, who were obliged
to attend two courses in Physiology, should take the former of the two with the Assistant, the
latter with the Professor.
14. [The second course of Physiology required by the College curriculum for students of
the Senior Department, but not demanded by the University for its Degrees, was struck out of
the former.]
15. Midwifery,&c.—[A nine months' course, including all subjects lectured upon by the
Professor of this branch, was substituted for the Winter course of Midwifery and the Summer
course of Diseases of Women and Children, experience having proved that the time allotted for
the former was excessive and for the latter insufficient.]
16. Materia Medica and Pharmacy .— [The University requiring only one course in each of
these subjects, the second course was struck out of the curricula of the Senior Department.]
17. Chemistry.—[The proportion of lectures in Chemical Physics, Inorganic Chemistry, and
Organic Chemistry was approximately two-fifths of the lectures at the beginning to be devoted
to the first and one-fifth at the end to the last subject.]
18. Medical Jurisprudence.—[It was arranged that in future a Summer course of elemen-
tary lectures in Medical Jurisprudence should be delivered to Junior Department students
by the Professor, relieving them from attendance on the Winter course.]
19. General.—[The F. A. of the local University (or some equivalent qualification) has
been made necessary for admission to the Senior Department.]
20. The Second Department has been opened to private students with a Matriculation
qualification.
21. The proportion of prizes to members of the various classes has been fixed on a satis-
factory basis ; and distinct prizes have been allotted to different sections of certain classes so
as to obviate competition between students attending a first course and those attending their
second in one subject.
22. Qualifying percentages have been fixed for special prizes, prizes, and high approval
with certificate.
23. Percentages indicating deficiency and special deficiency have been fixed, the latter
involving forfeiture of certificate or credit for the course.
24. Conditions have been laid down under which senior students of proved merit may be
allowed free use of the Professor's Library and access to the Pathological Museum.
25. The College compound has been placed under the care of Professor Harvey with great
advantage : cattle have been excluded from it, and arrangements have been made for
introducing a supply of Red Hills water for horticultural improvement.
(Signed)
HENRY KING, A.M., M.B
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MADRAS MEDICAL COLLEGE ,
3rd April 1882.