99 TRAINING.

(1) KITCHENER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE.

The work of this school made satisfactory progress during the year under report.

A total of 24 students were under training during the year.

The classes were composed as follows : — Students. 1st Year.

Chemistry, Physics and Biology .. •• 2nd Year.

Anatomy, Physiology and Materia Medica . . 7 3rd Year.

Medicine, Surgery and Pathology . . . . — 4th Year.

Medicine, Surgery, Midwifery and Gynaeco¬ logy, Public Health . .. * • 7 Total . . .. . . • • 24 The absence of a 3rd year class was due to the fact that no fresh students were admitted to the school in 1920. This omission was made to meet special circum¬ stances and is not likely to be repeated. In 1929 there will still be only three classes as there will be no senior class in that year, but after that the full establish¬ ment of four classes should be continuously maintained, giving a total of between 30 and 40 students under training at one time. The admissions to the first year class will be increased to 12 in 1929 to allow for a reduction in the higher classes owing to students being referred for a further period of tuition in one of the lower classes or being advised to give up the course through unsuitability.

Biology.

By arrangement with the Education Department a biologist has been appointed to that department whose duties will include as a primary obligation, the teaching of this subject to the first year students of the School of Medicine. He will also teach the same subject to the fourth year science class at the Gordon College. Thus he will continue to teach at the School of Medicine, students chosen from among those whom he has previously taught in the Gordon College science class. The teaching of this subject has suffered during 1927 and the earn part of 1928, owing to there being no one whose primary duty it was to cai ry out this work. .

The teaching of biology as a preliminary subject in medical education is telt to be additionally important in such a country as the Sudan where a student s conception and understanding of life is of necessity, much more restricted and less informed than that of a Buropean boy of the same age. The satisfactory settle¬ ment of this difficulty is in consequence very welcome.