Review

Abstract

For many years, the R.M.S. has attracted a membership of only 10 % of medical students between 2nd and 6th years in this University, and has had very variable (and often disappointing) turn-outs at both public and private -meetings. A questionnaire was put out to students last Summer Term to determine what proportion of medical students might be attracted to joining the Society.

This showed that 30% of students were ‘regular’ attenders at extracurricular lectures, societies, symposia, etc., i.e. attended more than twice per term; 30% did not attend any such meetings, the remainder (40%) being ‘occasional' attenders. Comparison showed that twice as many students attended Edinburgh Medical Group meetings as R.M.S. meetings; why this should be we could not definitely ascertain, but it is significant that 72% of medical students felt that they were insufficiently informed about R.M.S. activities.