Talk:List of historical medical schools in the United Kingdom

Ireland

It has been proposed that the section on medical schools in Dublin is removed from this page, as Dublin is in the Republic of Ireland, not the UK. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in its current form has only existed since 1927, and therefore strictly speaking one could argue that none of the historical medical schools mentioned in the article are in the United Kingdom.

I feel that as this page is about historical medical schools in the United Kingdom, that medical schools which were in the historical United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland at the time of their existence should be included in the article: This would include medical schools which existed in what is now the Republic of Ireland from 1801 to 1927. I therefore feel that the inclusion of the Catholic University within this article is appropriate.

Ceiriog (talk) 12:23, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

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More extinct British medical schools

There were many other medical schools in the UK than have so far been described.

There was a non-university undergraduate school attached to the West London Hospital, which I recall seeing mentioned in the defunct magazine World Medicine. It may have grown out of their pioneering postgraduate medical school which was set up in the nineteenth century. The undergraduate school is said to have latterly taken in a considerable number of students expelled from the other London schools after failing their exams. I suspect it it did not reopen after the second world war due to the Goodenough Committee's recommendation that all of the non-university schools remain closed.

There were several schools of medicine for women only, before they were allowed into the boys' schools. There were at least two in Edinburgh at the end of the nineteenth century. I don't know whether they just faded away or were officially absorbed into the University. There was another in Glasgow, possibly part of Queen Margaret College: I have a vague recollection that girls at the University Of Glasgow remained associated with that name for some time. The well known one in London became the Royal Free Hospital's medical school. There may have been others.

There were several short-lived private institutions, or perhaps just buildings, in London in the eighteenth century (perhaps also earlier/later) where students could study some or all of the medical subjects. Their students may well have had clinical attachments to one of the London teaching hospitals. These outfits may have belonged to an individual, and would have closed when he retired. Great Windmill Street comes to mind. Some of their equivalents in the provinces became associated with colleges which eventually became universities. Anatomy was particularly hard to study in a crowded class, so those who could afford it might seek extra tuition: this led to the Burke and Hare scandal at Robert Knox's School of Anatomy in Edinburgh.

Individual teachers could make their reputation before seeking an academic post at a university. Edinburgh and possibly Glasgow latterly had officially-approved extramural teachers whose courses counted towards the university degrees.

Apart from basic medical sciences, the other topic that was hard to study at a crowded medical school was practical obstetrics. Midwifery used to be more important to a newly qualified practitioner than it is nowadays, when it has become a postgraduate specialty, and it used to be common for students at British medical schools to go to one of the famous maternity hospitals in Dublin (e.g. the Rotunda Hospital for several weeks of supervised practice to collect the necessary twenty or more certified deliveries.

The students at most of these institutions would have gone on to take diplomas or licences from one or more of the non-university licensing bodies, unless they had previously been in residence at Oxford or Cambridge and were entitled to take their Bachelor of Medicine or Licence In Medicine exams. Students could move around more freely between institutions in earlier centuries, so even if attendance was not recognised by an examining body it could contribute to success there. NRPanikker (talk) 14:03, 22 February 2019 (UTC)