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Venereology at the Polyclinic: Postgraduate Medical Education Among General Practitioners in England, 1899–1914
In 1899 the British Medical Journal enthusiastically announced that a new postgraduate teaching college was to open in London. The aim of the Medical Graduates’ College and Polyclinic (MGC) was to provide continuing education to general practitioners. It drew upon emerging specialisms and in so doin...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4407443/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25766540 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2015.3 |
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description | In 1899 the British Medical Journal enthusiastically announced that a new postgraduate teaching college was to open in London. The aim of the Medical Graduates’ College and Polyclinic (MGC) was to provide continuing education to general practitioners. It drew upon emerging specialisms and in so doing built upon the generalist training received at an undergraduate level. Courses were intended to refresh knowledge and to introduce general practitioners to new knowledge claims and clinical practices. The establishment of postgraduate institutions such as the MGC marked an important stage in the development of medical education in England. Yet these institutions, and the emergence of postgraduate medical education more broadly, have been largely overlooked by historians. Moreover the history of venereological training among medical undergraduates and postgraduates alike has been overlooked. The study of such special subjects characterised postgraduate study. This article examines the dissemination of venereological knowledge among subscribers to MGC as an important case study for the development of institutionalised postgraduate medical education in England at the turn of the twentieth century. |
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spelling | pubmed-44074432015-05-21 Venereology at the Polyclinic: Postgraduate Medical Education Among General Practitioners in England, 1899–1914 Hanley, Anne Med Hist Articles In 1899 the British Medical Journal enthusiastically announced that a new postgraduate teaching college was to open in London. The aim of the Medical Graduates’ College and Polyclinic (MGC) was to provide continuing education to general practitioners. It drew upon emerging specialisms and in so doing built upon the generalist training received at an undergraduate level. Courses were intended to refresh knowledge and to introduce general practitioners to new knowledge claims and clinical practices. The establishment of postgraduate institutions such as the MGC marked an important stage in the development of medical education in England. Yet these institutions, and the emergence of postgraduate medical education more broadly, have been largely overlooked by historians. Moreover the history of venereological training among medical undergraduates and postgraduates alike has been overlooked. The study of such special subjects characterised postgraduate study. This article examines the dissemination of venereological knowledge among subscribers to MGC as an important case study for the development of institutionalised postgraduate medical education in England at the turn of the twentieth century. Cambridge University Press 2015-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4407443/ /pubmed/25766540 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2015.3 Text en © The Author 2015 |
spellingShingle | Articles Hanley, Anne Venereology at the Polyclinic: Postgraduate Medical Education Among General Practitioners in England, 1899–1914 |
title | Venereology at the Polyclinic: Postgraduate Medical Education Among General Practitioners in England, 1899–1914 |
title_full | Venereology at the Polyclinic: Postgraduate Medical Education Among General Practitioners in England, 1899–1914 |
title_fullStr | Venereology at the Polyclinic: Postgraduate Medical Education Among General Practitioners in England, 1899–1914 |
title_full_unstemmed | Venereology at the Polyclinic: Postgraduate Medical Education Among General Practitioners in England, 1899–1914 |
title_short | Venereology at the Polyclinic: Postgraduate Medical Education Among General Practitioners in England, 1899–1914 |
title_sort | venereology at the polyclinic: postgraduate medical education among general practitioners in england, 1899–1914 |
topic | Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4407443/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25766540 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2015.3 |
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