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agreed proportion of students to each of
the teaching hospitals.
The new Royal Melbourne Hospital provided
admirably for the comfort and convenience
of students and lecturers. The
members of its clinical school carried on
the tradition of patient and exacting instruction
begun by men like Williams and
Stawell and continued by the remarkable
group of practitioners and teachers which
included Sir George Syme, Sir Alan Newton,
Sir Victor Hurley, Sir Sidney Sewell, Dr.
Leslie Hurley, Dr. H. H. Turnbull and Dr.
S. 0. Cowen.
In 1936 the university council agreed that
departments of medicine and surgery would
be created if the new Royal Melbourne
Hospital provided clinical wards for their
use. Negotiations for the departments
began in 1949 between the university and
the teaching hospitals. In 1950 the hospital's
committee of management and the
governing bodies of other teaching hospitals
agreed to provide beds and accommodation
for professors of medicine and surgery when
the university required them. All differences
over the best way of beginning the
departments were settled by 1952, and the
university council approved the appointments
of professors if money could be found
to pay for them. By the end of 1953 the
money was being raised by public appeal,
and in 1955 Melbourne gained the first
professors whose absence the Lancet had
found incredible in 1886.
The above extracts, taken from Chapter
5 of HOSPITAL AND COMMUNITY —
A History of the Royal Melbourne Hospital,
prepared and written by Dr. K. S. Inglis,
and recently published by Melbourne University
Press, are reproduced by courtesy of
the publishers.
The hospital (R.M.H.) has never lacked
enough trainees. Its position as Victoria's
leading hospital, the reputation of its nursing
school, and perhaps the presence of a body
of unmarried students, have kept the hospital's
waiting list of potential nurses a long
one.
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