BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Columba Systems Ltd//NONSGML CPNG/SpringViewer/ICal Output/3.3- M3//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20140224T152039Z DTSTART:20140311T130000Z DTEND:20140311T140000Z SUMMARY:Venereological education among medical undergraduates in England\ , 1890-1914 UID:{http://www.columbasystems.com/customers/uom/gpp/eventid/}xea-hr7u5i5 4-5hpfmd DESCRIPTION:This seminar is part of the CHSTM Lunchtime Seminar Series \n \n \nVener eological education among medical undergraduates in England\, 1890-1914\ n\nAbstract\n\n\nHistorians writing on nineteenth- and early-twentieth c entury medical debates regarding modes of venereal disease transmission\ , diagnosis\, treatment and prevention have rarely addressed the fundame ntal question of venereological training among English medical students. It has generally been assumed by historians that practitioners acquired an adequate working knowledge of the symptoms of venereal disease\, as well as the treatment methods available to patients. Lesley Hall is corr ect in stating that venereology was not taught as a coherent and contain ed subject on an undergraduate curriculum designed to produce competent generalists. However\, this does not mean that students were not exposed to cases of venereal disease in the course of their clinical work or en countered venereology in other subjects. It is well accepted that venere ological knowledge amongst medical students and practitioners was genera lly incomplete\, and that the undergraduate curriculum was overloaded an d slow to integrate new clinical practices and ideas. The tension betwee n Hall’s argument and assumptions made by historians about venereologica l knowledge among medical graduates warrants further scrutiny. Venereolo gical education was not adequate but it is unlikely that undergraduates were completely ignorant of basic diagnostic and therapeutic practices. The proposed paper examines the nature of venereological education avail able to English medical students at the turn of the twentieth century an d some of the ways that this education affected the quality of their pro fessional practice.\n \n STATUS:TENTATIVE TRANSP:TRANSPARENT CLASS:PUBLIC LOCATION:2.57\, Simon Building\, Manchester END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR