I am trying to find out what the education and training was in Britain for a doctor who was going to go into General Medical Practice in the 1920s. From the information which I have managed to find through Googling various combinations of '1920s', 'GP', 'General Practitioner', 'education', 'training', 'British', 'medical', 'doctor', 'Britain', and ( Read more... )

Setting is late 20th century Japan (1980s/90s-ish) and the main character is a somewhat serious, shy fellow who's apt to be the butt of jokes anyway. I'm looking for a few good stories about the kind of pranks/hazing that might happen to a medical student/intern, as well as the kind of stories doctors are apt to tell about Hilarity Ensuing during ( Read more... )

I am writing a story in which my main character joined the army so that they would pay for his medical school. I'm afraid that my knowledge of the military is mostly superficial, and I'm more well versed in Canadian rather than American military protocols so, I have quite a few questions. (The story takes place in the current era, or perhaps ( Read more... )

time: shortly before ww2 place: somewhere in the United States (not quite Real World, but functionally equivalent) search terms: depression era medical school, with and without appropriate quotes ( Read more... )

Searched: Wikipedia pages on medical schools (US), "semester schedule medical school", "first year medical school", essay Clinical Experiences in Pre-Clinical Years, SWU's med school curriculum site (actual class material password-protected)

Setting: United States, present-day (well, 2008 ( Read more... )

I have a character in a modern setting who is trained as a nurse, but has been hired to fill the medical-officer's position on a small special-ops team. It would be helpful to know what, specifically, would be different in her training and medical knowledge-base vis-a-vis what one would expect of someone who had trained to qualify as a doctor ( Read more... )

Location: Massachussetts/East Coast, USA
Time Period: Now-ish

I have a character who works in a Massachusetts ER as a nurse, mostly evening and overnight shifts, and I have some specific questions regarding what his standing/responsibilities would be.

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Setting: Mid-19th century England

Hey, everyone. I was wondering if anyone could enlighten me as to the general process of becoming a doctor/physician in mid-Victorian England? I've done quite a lot of research (mostly with source material) and a year ago I did a brief course on the development of medicine but I wonder of someone has an overview of ( Read more... )

Setting: historical England, 1893& onward. Focuses on two characters, who are basically what you'd get if you combined House, Holmes and Jeeves, and Wilson, Watson and Bertie Wooster ( Read more... )

How hard would it be for someone with a specialty in pediatric oncology to switch to a specialty in pediatrics? How would this be done ( Read more... )