Before medical education became systematically ordered in the 19th century, it was possible to count attendance at a London teaching hospital towards an Edinburgh or Glasgow degree.
[2] In Edinburgh, students accumulated "duly performed" certificates from classes and clinics to become eligible to take the examinations.
Both university and extramural students could qualify with the Triple Qualification, the licentiate exams of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons.
[3] [4] In the late 19th century the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women taught students at Surgeons' Square with clinical teaching at Leith Hospital.
At first it enabled medical students from the Polish universities, which had all been closed by the German administration, to complete their courses and qualify.
Anderson's University/College (the non degree-granting precursor of the University of Strathclyde) had its own Medical Faculty from 1800 to 1887, when the parent institution became part of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College.
It prepared students for the Triple Qualification diploma (LRCPE, LRCSEd, LRFPSG) which was the Scottish equivalent of the English Conjoint examinations, but not for the University of Glasgow's degrees.
[8] In 1947 it was absorbed into the University of Glasgow's Faculty of Medicine,[9] whose teaching departments remain based within GRI to the present day.