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(k) Instruction in the following subjects:—
(1) Ophthalmology, including refraction and the use of the
ophthalmoscope; with hospital attendance for a period of
three months.
(2) Diseases of the ear, nose and throat, including the use of
the otoscope, laryngoscope and rhinoscope.
(3) Radiology and electrc-therapeutics in their application to
surgery.
(4) Venereal diseases.
(5) Orthopaedics.
(6) Dental diseases.
(7) Surgical diseases of infancy and childhood.
Throughout the whole period of study the attention of the student
should be directed by the teachers of this subject to the importance of
its preventive aspects.
7. Midwifery, Diseases of women, and infant Hygiene including:—
(a) Courses of systematic instruction in the principles and practice
of Midwifery, Gynaecology, and Infant Hygiene, including
applied anatomy and physiology of preganancy and labour.
(b) Lectures and demonstrations in clinical Midwifery, Gynaecology
and Infant hygiene and attendance on the practice of a
maternity hospital or the maternity wards of a general
hospital, including (a) ante-natal care and (b) the manage-
ment of the puerperium, and on inpatient and outpatient
gynaecological practice for a period of at least three months.
This period should be devoted exclusively to instruction in these
subjects, and should be subsequent to the medical clinical
clerkship [Section 5(b)] and the surgical dressership [Section
6(b)]. Not less than two-thirds of the hours of clinical
instruction should be given to midwifery, including ante-
natal care and infant hygiene.
(c) Of this period of clinical instruction not less than one month
should be spent as aresident pupil either in a maternity
hospital or in a hostel attached to a maternity hospital or
to the maternity wards of a general hospital.
The student should during this month attend at least twenty
cases of labour under adequate supervision. Should the