ABSTRACT
Undergraduate medical training in London has a very long history, but organised postgraduate education did not commence until the latter years of the nineteenth century. At the time of the foundation of the London School of Clinical Medicine (LSCM) in 1906, although there were four schemes in operation, there was very little clinical input into any of them. Owing to a sharp increase in numbers of out-patients, the Dispenser at the Dreadnought asked for a separate Out-Patient colleague; a meeting of the LSCM Committee therefore recommended to the Board that such an appointment be made. The subject of University of London recognition of the LSCM was however repeatedly raised; provided that Rose Bradford and Russell Wells felt the time was opportune, a formal application was to be made. The India Office apparently refused to acknowledge the certificate of the LSCM as sufficient evidence of Ophthalmic work in ‘an Ophthalmic Hospital of the Ophthalmic Department of a General Hospital’.
