Third Professional Examination in Pathology (including Bacteriology) and Forensic

Fourth (Final) Professional Examinations in Surgery, Medicine, Midwifery and Special Subjects.

REGULATIONS FOR DEGREES IN MEDICINE.

[This Ordinance for the Regulation of Degrees in Medicine and Surgery came into force on 1st October, 1911.]

UNIVERSITY COURT ORDINANCE, No. XXXIII
ABERDEEN No. 4 [Regulations for Degrees in
Medicine].

At Aberdeen, the thirteenth day of December, Nineteen
hundred and ten years.

Whereas by Section 21 of the Universities (Scotland) Act 1889, it is enacted that after the expiration of the powers of the Commissioners under the said Act the University Court of each University shall have power to make such Ordinances as they think fit with the approval of His Majesty in Council, inter alia altering or revoking any of the Ordinances affecting such University which had been or might be framed and passed under the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1858, or the said recited Act itself, and making new Ordinances.

And whereas on the 3rd day of February, 1892, the said Commissioners issued an Ordinance No. 15 [Aberdeen, No. 1.-Regulations for Degrees in Medicine], which received the approval of Her late Majesty in Council on the 5th day of August, 1892; and on the 5th day of June, 1893, an Ordinance No. 31 [Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh, No. 1.-Composition of the Faculties and Institution of Faculties of Science], which received the approval of Her late Majesty in Council on the 23rd day of November, 1893; and on the 18th day of November, 1893, an Ordinance No 42 [General No. 14.-Institution of Boards of studies in the Faculties of Medicine and Science], which received the approval of Her late Majesty in Council on the 28th day of May, 1894; and on the 18th day of July, 1894, an Ordinance No. 55 [Aberdeen No. 9.-Regulations for Degrees in Medicine, Supplementary to Ordinance No. 15], which received the approval of Her late Majesty in Council on the 11th day of May, 1895; and on the 22nd day of January, 1897, an Ordinance No. 156 [Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh No. 3.-Regulations for Degrees in Medicine, Supplementary to Ordinances Nos. 14, 15, and 16] which received the approval of Her late Majesty in Council on the 18th day of May, 1897 :

And whereas the powers conferred on the said Commissioners had expired:

And whereas the University Court of the University of Aberdeen has resolved that it is expedient that the provisions of the

said Ordinances in so far as they affect the University of Aberdeen should be altered or revoked, and that the provisions hereinafter set forth should be substituted therefor:

And whereas parts of certain Ordinances for Bursaries, Higher Degrees in Arts and Science, for Examinations, and for Boards of Studies, make references directly or indirectly to the aforementioned Ordinances, and it is expedient that these references should be made to apply to the provisions of this Ordinance as hereinafter set forth:

Therefore the University Court of the University of AberIdeen hereby statutes and ordains with reference to the Regulations for Degrees in Medicine of the University of Aberdeen as follows:

DEGREES AND DIPLOMAS IN MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

I. Four Degrees in Medicine and Surgery shall be conferred by the University of Aberdeen, namely, Bachelor of Medicine (M.B.), Bachelor of Surgery (Ch. B.), Doctor of Medicine (M.D), and Master of Surgery (Ch.M). The Degree of Bachelor of Surgery shall not be conferred on any person who does not at the same time obtain the Degree of Bachelor of Medicine, and the Degree of Bachelor of Medicine shall not be conferred on any person who does not at the same time obtain the Degree of Bachelor of Surgery.

II. Subject to Regulations to be made from time to time by the Senatus, with the approval of the University Court, the University may confer * Diplomas in Special Branches of Medical and Surgical Practice on graduates in Medicine and Surgery of the University of Aberdeen, and also on other legally qualified medical practitioners who shall have pursued the prescribed course of study in the University.

ACADEMICAL YEAR.

III. The academical year shall commence on the first day of October. In each academical year there shall be three nearly equal terms, including not less than thirty teaching weeks. Two such terms shall for the purpose of reckoning the duration of Medical study be deemed the equivalent of one winter session, and one such term shall be deemed the equivalent of one summer session. The days on which courses of instruction shall open and close in each term shall be determined by the Senatus, with the approval of the University Court.

* For Regulations for the Diploma in Public Health, vide infra.