EDUCATIONAL REQUISITES FOR OBTAINING LICENTIATE OF MEDICINE STATUS

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• Publication Date: July 19, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Finland
25XIUBJECT Educational Requisites for Obtaining
Licentiate of Medicine Status
DATE DISTR. /'I Jul 1949
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1. The educational system in Finland consists of 4 years of elementary school,,
usually began at the age of 7 years (I began my school at the age of 5 rears),
and 8 years of secondary school. After_tite secondary school, there is a maturity
examination. ? Successful passing of this examination is compulsory for entering
the University.
2. The med.Thal studies. at the'TTniversity in Helsinki begin after the maturity
examination and consis+ ask., (1) a preliminary examination for entering the
Medical Faculty, (2) the examination of tue Candidate of Medicine, and (3) the
examination of the Licentiate of Medicine.
The preliminary examination includes terms,(ij years) of pM.eics (mechanics,
thermostatics and thermdi~l lesj1#~ft# t 3 opties,--atom- and rtdiatiozi=p q!cs),3
em (inorganic qualitative, quantitative and synthetic; an. organic
q tative and synthetics and biochemistry) and zoology (general zoology,
gez ral and microbiology) with theoretical lectures and practical 1ahnrPtrir7r
and dissection from 8:00 amMto 5[00, .someti is 8x00 pmt; six'days of the..wsek
At the end' of the tern there, is a fins.[. examination in physics, chemistry and
zoology as'well as in Latin, .On the basips of the results obtained in these
examinations,the students are sele(ied 1100 the Medical Faculty. Usually some
1/5 to 113 of the applicants are accepted and can go on with their studies in
the Medical Faculty.
4. TJ4e examination of the Candidate of Medicine in the Medical Faculty consists of
3 terms of Maatom?Y (macro-and microanatomy), vhYiiol2gE, physiological chemistry,
and 2hEj acol with theoretical lectures and pract c laboratory and dissection
during all three terms. At the end of the third term there is an examination
in all these topics.
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After this examination,the Candidates of Medicine begin the hospital training
at the various departments of the University Hospital. This training consists
of 7 terms (31 years) as follows:,
(a) lot term. (1)precpaodeutice of medicine with theoretical lectures and
clinical.training; (2) general pathology with lectures and demonstration
autopsies, (3)pr pi eutite of bacteriology and serology with lectures
and laboratory work,
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(b) 2nd term. (1) prs-pedsulo*of surgery and general surgery with lectures
and hospital traini.TLP and demonstrative operations (2) dermatology and
venereology With lectures and hospital training, (3) general nursing with
iec Aux ea anti wa?ions trations, (4) a course of dentistry with lectures and
demonstrations.
(c) rd term. (1) pediatrics, lectures and clinical training, (2) ophthalmology,
lectures and clinical training, (3)'bacteriology and serology, lectures and
laboratory work, (4) epidemiology with lectures and clinical training.
(d) 4tth.term; (1) gynecology and obstetrics with lectures, clinical training
and demonstration operations in gynecologic and obstetric hospitals,
(2) radiology, lectures and demonstrations,(3) a course in writing
prescriptions.
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(The normal practice is than after this termra stttide~-t IDagf and usually does,
act as deputy for community doctors.)
(e) 5th-term. (1) internal medicine (including tuberculous diseases) with
lectures and clinical training, (2) special pathology, lectures and
microscopic laboratory work and demonstration autopsies.
(f) 6th term. (1) psychiatry and neurology,, lectures and clinical training,
(2 hygiene, lectures and laboratory work, (3) legal medicine, lectures
and demonstration autopsies, (4) social medicine lectures.
(g) 7th.term. (1) surgery and neurosurgery, lectures, hospital training and
demonstration operations, (2) otorhinolar gology lectures, clinical
training and demonstration operations, (3) physical medicine, lectures
and clinical training.
After these terms there is an- s4 fiend abnth' -of polyclinio*l -+r&tni ig at.the
Internal Medicine Department, the Surgical Department'and two weeks at the
Dermatological and. V a3 p lyclis ice, ,,In ^d t$6 ' c ,thy' ?1*f .
examinations in Surgery, Internal Medicine, Synecology and Obstetrics,
Pathology,'Hygiene, Legal Medicine, Pediatrics, Dermatology and Venerology,.
Psychiatry, Bacteriology and Serology, and Otorhinolaryngology, there is also
training in the post-mortem examinations before the examination of the Licentiate.
of Medicine is complete. -W
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