Medicine - Professionalising Medicine

Improvements in medical training

• Teaching hospitals developed where students could observe doctors at work
• Many students dissected bodies to understand human anatomy
• Following Pasteur's germ theory, there was more emphasis on studying microbes and disease through microscope
• Training included how to use improved technology such as thermometers and stethoscopes to help diagnose illness

Qualification

• Doctors needed a certificate from:
•  - The Royal College of Surgeons
•  - The Royal College of Physicians
•  - The Society of Apothecaries
• After 1815, the latter two set an exam to be passed before certificates…