Post-graduate Course for General Practitioners

A FEW years ago annual post-graduate classes in general medicinie and surgery were inaugurated by Queeni's University, Belfast. These classes were confined to panel practitioners nominated b1y the Ministry of Labour (N.I.), and iwere attende(d each vear with coniderable success. A wider sphere of usefulness is now\N given these classes by openiing a limited nunmber of places to any general practitioi-ers who wisl to attenid. The classes this year will begin on Monday, September 14, and will enid on Saturday, September 26. They will be conducted by the visiting staffs of the Royal Victoria and the Mater Infirimiorum Hospitals, and the teaching staff of Queen's University, Belfast. The morning sessions, from 9.30 till 12 nooni, will be conifined to clinical stuLdyN in the wards andcl out-patient departments of the llospitals. The afternooin sessionls, from 2 till 5), will be devoted to demonistrations and lectures on the more theoretical aspects of medicinie and(l surgery, to problems of preventive medicine, to patlhology, bacteriology, andl clinical biochemistry. They will be held in the Inistitute of Pathology, Grosvenor Road. OnIe wh11olc morningw-ill be dexvoted to a visit to the Forster Green Hospital, Fortbreda, where Dr. R. B. Clarke has kindly conseinte(d to give a dcemonstration ol the metlhods of (liagnlosis and treatmenit employed tlhere. Nowadays, wheni the importanice of postraduate study is being more clearly recognize(l, these (lasses slhouldl make a wi(le appeal, particularly to the many past stu(lenits of the Belfast Medical School wlho are scattered throughout Northerni Ireland, England, and the colonies. Participation in this course ould give them ani opportunity of renewingtheir student days, andl relixvilgo-nce imore the carefree life which passes awvav otn gra(dtuation, with its atten(dant responsibilities of general practice. AnNyone interestecl in these classes may obtain further information from Dr. R. H. Hunter, organiizinig secretary, or Professor WV. J. Wilson, Deanl of the Medical Faculty, Queeni's University, Belfast. The fee for the fortniight's Course is £5. 5s., payable in advance.