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532 MODERN TIMES.
The successful candidates now proceed to Netley to go
through a four months' course of instruction in military
surgery, medicine and hygiene. They then pass a final
examination, and their position on the list of those recom­
mended for commissions is determined by the combined
results of the competitive and final examinations. The
surgeons of the British Medical Service then pass to Alder-
shot for instruction in ambulance drill and equitation.
A further examination has to be passed on promotion to
the rank of surgeon-major: this is with a view of testing
the surgeon in such branches of knowledge as are essential
to his continued efficiency as a medical officer.
The conditions of admission into the Naval Medical
Service resemble those for the army. After passing the
competitive examination in London the successful candi­
date receives a commission as surgeon in the Royal Navy,
and undergoes a course of naval hygiene at Haslar
Hospital.
A further examination has to be passed on promotion to'
the rank of staff-surgeon.
The special departments in the London Hospitals are .
now most ably administered and opportunities are afforded
to students of holding minor appointments in them. In
addition to clinical teaching in the wards, clinical lectures
are given on cases of especial interest by the physicians
• and surgeons at frequent intervals. j
«,:•• The beautifully exhibited and carefully catalogued i
^pathological specimens in the museums afford unrivalled *
-Opportunities for study : while practical research in physi­
ology and bacteriology has of late years become an estab­
lished feature at many medical schools.
The rapid advance in therapeutics which is a charac­
teristic of the present time, has made it desirable that the
qualified practitioner should be placed in a position to
acquaint himself with new methods of treatment, and,
facilities are afforded him for this in the courses of post­
graduate lectures which have recently been instituted and