The medical library.

MY pleasant duty is to welcome the new students to their first term in hospital and to wish them every success at this exciting time in their career. They have one great advantage that I and others of my vintage did not have, and that is an excellent medical library close to the wards. This gives them unrivalled opportunity to examine patients and then to compare their observations with what they might or should have found. Learning in medicine, of course, doesn't end with qualification. It is a continuing education and hence the importance of understanding how to make the greatest possible use of the library. Such is the flood of medical literature, journals and books, that it is very important for the student to have guidance, as well as being able to follow his own inclinations in his reading.