ABSTRACT
The Haldane Report on University Education in London, whose findings were published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) in April 1913, strongly recommended that academic professorial units should be established in the London medical schools. The foundation of the Royal College of Pathologists was given strong support by the BMJ. The expansion of the work-force involved in health care has been a major development during the twentieth century. The changes in the practice of medicine that have so radically altered the life of the twentieth-century consultant have occurred equally in other western nations, notably the United States. Yet if the BMJ’s relationships with teachers and research workers are important in any assessment of its contacts with the twentieth-century consultant, it is in its dialogue with the royal colleges and faculties that represent the consultant hierarchy that the BMJ’s views may best be discerned.
