Women Workers in Seven Professions: A Survey of Their Economic Conditions and Prospects
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Women Workers in Seven Professions: A Survey of Their Economic Conditions and Prospects
Vocational guidance; Women -- Employment -- Great Britain
Fee at the Medical School for Women, if paid as a composition fee in
five yearly instalments of £28, £51, £45, £40, and £15; Total:--£179,
or, if the whole sum is paid on entrance to the school, £160. In
addition there is a fee of three guineas for the special study of
fevers. These fees include everything in the way of material, except
books and instruments for which it is wise to allow another £30. The
examination fees of the university are £25. These amounts make no
allowance for any failures, and consequent revision of work, and
re-entry for examination. In reckoning the expense, the necessary cost
of living for the six years must also be included. For those students
whose homes are not in London there are flats and boarding-houses
where it is possible to live very reasonably. Suitable board and
residence can be obtained from about 25s. a week.
_For the Diploma of the Conjoint Board._
The school fees are the same; the examination fees are, however,
higher, namely £42.
For other qualifications, the school fees are £20 less for the course.
Certain scholarships are available for students, of which all
particulars can be obtained from the secretary of each school.
When a woman becomes a registered medical practitioner, she is for
the first time legally entitled to treat patients herself, and is
entrusted with responsibility. As in most other branches of knowledge
in the world, while she has simply been learning and carrying out her
duties under authority, she has had no opportunity of really testing
her own knowledge. It is, therefore, very generally felt amongst newly
qualified medical practitioners that they need more experience before
undertaking quite independent medical work. This experience is
best gained by taking hospital posts. By this is meant positions of
moderate responsibility, such as that of resident house physician or
resident house surgeon in a hospital, where the newly qualified doctor
is under the authority of an experienced visiting "chief," but is
expected to deal with ordinary incidents as they may arise, to realise
the relative importance of different symptoms, and report those that
matter to the visiting physician or surgeon.
It is at this stage that the doctor must decide whether she wishes to
become
(a) a "specialist" in some particular branch
of medicine or surgery,
(b) a general practitioner, or
(c) whether she wishes to work in the public
service.
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