The Fellowship of Medicine and Post-Graduate Medical Association

NZMJ, 1926

The Fellowship of Medicine and Post-Graduate Medical Association is the only organisation in London for the provision of instruction in medicine for qualified men and women. It has affiliated to it some 50 hospitals in London, containing 6,000 beds, and with out-patient departments attended by thousands of patients. All branches of medicine, surgery and the special departments are dealt with, and instruction given by expert teachers.

These hospitals permit post-graduates to attend their daily practice—ward rounds, out-patient departments, operations, etc. Detailed information supplied by them is arranged in diary form by the Fellowship of Medicine, and a comprehensive ticket for this “General Course” is issued for any period, from one week to one year at a scale of fees ranging from two guineas to twenty guineas, according to the period required.

In addition to participating in the “General Course”, some 27 individual hospitals hold one or more “Special Courses” during the year, the total number of such courses averaging 56-60 per annum. In the case of the general hospitals these take the form of “refresher” courses usually consisting of a fortnight’s intensive work in general medicine, surgery and the various specialties ; each special hospital deals solely with its own particular subject. The programme of special courses is arranged to give as varied a selection as possible at any given time, and care is taken that two courses on the same subject, but at different hospitals, do not run concurrently.

Enquiries on all subjects connected with the medical profession are received at the Fellowship Office, 1 Wimpole St., London W.1., and no effort is spared to find a satisfactory answer for the enquirer—even though the information wanted is hardly within the advertised scope of the Fellowship’s activities. The Fellowship is always prepared to render all possible aid to post-graduates who may be unfamiliar with London, the hospitals and their methods. Information has been sought, and received, from the Fellowship on such diverse subjects as the post-graduate instruction available from Vienna, the best means of reaching any hospital in London from various given points, the possibility and method of obtaining clinical assistantships, particulars of various examinations of the colleges, and last—but not least—the procedure to be adopted by a doctor who wished to find a flat where his wife could practice her culinary art.

Note.— New Zealand Post-Graduates intending to visit London are invited to communicate with Mr. H. M. Gore, Secretary, British Medical Association (New Zealand Branch) who will be pleased to supply them with all information in his possession. Mr. Gore’s address is P.O. Box 156, Wellington.