Part II Medical Education and Registration: Persons Qualifying in the United Kingdom and Elsewhere in the EEC.

13 Power to appoint visitors of approved hospitals.

1

The Education Committee may, if they think fit, appoint persons to visit any approved hospital or approved institution.

2

It shall be the duty of visitors appointed under subsection (1) above to report to the Education Committee on the extent to which the general clinical training given by employment in a resident medical capacity in the hospital or institution is such as to provide the experience required by one or more prescribed patterns of experience.

3

If the Education Committee are of the opinion that—

a

an approved hospital or an approved institution does not provide experience required by any prescribed pattern of experience; or

b

a pattern of experience recognised as applicable to persons by their examining body is not a prescribed pattern of experience; or

c

a combination of posts which is accepted by their examining body as providing persons who have held the posts comprised in the combination with the experience required by a prescribed pattern of experience does not in fact provide that experience,

then the Committee shall notify their opinion to the university or body concerned and that university or body shall have regard to that opinion in discharging their functions under sections 10 and 11 above.