OBSTETRICS.
Professor Macon.
Obstetrics.—Three hours weekly of lectures, recitations, and manikin
demonstrations during the third year, 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.
