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Medicine is one of the few professions that can trace its lineage back for more than 2000 uninterrupted years. The oath attributed to Hippocrates states: ‘I will look upon him who shall have taught me this Art even as one of my parents.... I will impart this Art by precept, by lecture and by every mode of teaching, not only to my own sons, but to the sons of him who has taught me, and to disciples bound by covenant and oath, according to the Law of Medicine.’ Indeed, for 2000 years medicine has been taught as an apprenticeship system by doctors who have never had any formal training for teaching.
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Professor George Gask (1875–1951), knighted in 1919, was a member of the Governing Body of the School, a member of the Medical Research Council and Vice-president of the Royal College of Surgeons.
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When Vic Harrison retired in 1971 he became the first Professor of Pathology at the new University of Ife, Nigeria, and stayed for 3 years.
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Pickering, G. and MacLachlan, G. (1974) in the final chapter, ‘The Summing Up’, of the report of a 2-day seminar on postgraduate medical education (a re-run of a similar meeting held in 1961 to see what progress had been made by 1974: very little). The Way Ahead (1974), edited by G. MacLachlan for the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust, Oxford Unviersity Press, London.
Lord Flowers, an eminent physicist, was rector of Imperial College of Science and Technology since 1973.
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Calnan, J. (1985). Teaching. In: The Hammersmith 1935–1985. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6358-3_11
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