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OBSTETRICS.

Professor Macon.

Obstetrics.—Three hours weekly during the third year, of lectures,
recitations, and manikin demonstrations, supplemented by work with
living subjects in the wards of the Hospital.

The class is divided into sections of five for manikin instruction
and for examination of patients in the Hospital. The manikin course
forms an important part of the work, not only for teaching presentation,
position, and posture, but also the mechanism of normal and abnormal
labor and the application of forceps. When the section is taken into the
wards of the Hospital, the methods of examination, particularly abdominal
palpation, are practiced on the living subject.

In the fourth year the student attends, under the guidance of an instructor,
the labour cases in the Hospital, is required to prepare the history
of patients, and to follow up the cases through the puerperium. Instruction
is also given in the care of the new born. In addition the student
has the chance of attending patients in the outpatient department and
each student is expected to attend at least four cases of labour.