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[edit] Historical Inaccuracies

The historical account of the Edinburgh Medical School contains major inaccuracies. For example, it was the University of Edinburgh (or rather the College of James VI King of Scots) which was modelled on the universities at Padua and Bologna, not the recently established College of Medicine. The Faculty of Medicine was set up in 1726, but MD degrees were awarded by the university before that, to those educated and/or trained elsewhere and examined by the Royal College of Physicians. The early teaching of anatomy in Edinburgh was by the surgeons, who had their own anatomy theatre, and Alexander Monro Primus at first taught on their premises, rather than in the university. The extramural medical school was as important as the university's in the 19th century, and lasted in the form of the School of Medicine of the Royal Colleges until the second world war: large numbers of Jewish Americans qualified there before returning to work in the United States. NRPanikker (talk) 14:40, 23 December 2007 (UTC)