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cverv system of medical instruction which does not rest on the basis 

 of practical demonstration and clinical teaching; and that it is, 

 therefore, the duty of the medical schools to resort to every honour- 

 able means to obtain access for their students to the Wards of a 

 well-regulated hospital. 



2. Resolved^ Therefore, that tins Association earnestly and re- 

 spectfully appeals to the trustees of Hospitals to open their wards for 

 the purposes of clinical instruction, satisfied that they will thereby 

 more efficiently aid the cause of humanity, and more perfectly ac- 

 complish the benevolent intentions of the founders of the charity. 



3. Resolved, That the practice of appointing physicians and sur- 

 geons to the charge of an hospital on political, or other grounds than 

 those of professional and moral worth, is inconsistent with the wel- 

 fare of its inmates, and, of consequence, inhumane and unjust, sub- 

 versive of the objects of its founders, and incompatible with a con- 

 scientious appreciation of the high responsibilities devolved on the 

 appointing power. 



4. Resolved, That this committee reiterate, and strongly re- 

 commend to the Association, a practical observance of the resolu- 

 tions appended to the report of the Committees on Preliminary 

 Education, and on the requisites for graduation, submitted to the 

 Medical Convention which assembled in Philadelphia in May, 1S47. 



5. Resolved, That the faculties of the medical schools be advised 

 and requested carefully to examine the students after their attend- 

 ance on their first course of lectures, and to issue certificates of 

 proficiency to such as merit them; and to regard the possession of 

 such certificate, and attendance on another full course of lectures 

 subsequent thereto, indispensable preliminaries to a final examination 

 for the doctorate. 



6. Resolved, That this Association recommend to the faculty of 

 each medical school to conduct the final examination of candidates 

 for the diploma, in presence of some official person or persons properly 

 qualified to recognize the attainments of the candidate, but who has 

 no pecuniary interest in the institution, or in the number of its 

 pupils. 



7. Jiexnlved, That it be also recommended, that, in lieu of the 

 usual inaugural Thesis, or in addition thereto, each candidate for the 

 diploma be required to present to the faculty, at or before the time 

 of final examination, a report, drawn up by himself, and from his 

 personal observation, of not fewer than fipe cases of disease, and upon 

 which he shall be duly examined. 



