I'm writing this from memory The RCP is not a medical school. Currently they oversee the routes to advanced qualifications in medicine. Hull York medical school was not founded until 2003. Sheffield is much older at 1828. You are right in saying that medical training in the past took the form of an apprenticeship. Medical students were known as clerks if studying medicine and dressers if studying surgery. Dressers did the dressings. Even today when taking a history from a patient doctors still talk about clerking the patient. Chris PS If anyone wants to see an old operating theatre, go to the museum at St Thomas' church opposite Guys hospital in London. PPS You do not give his age, but if the school was in Minster yard, could it have been the choir school?? This is a guess ________________________________ From: Laurence E Stephenson <laurencestephenson@gmail.com> To: Yorkshire <Yorksgen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, 16 September 2012, 8:07 Subject: [YORKSGEN] Richard Stephenson 1851 census I am looking for help. I have found my Great great grandfather (Richard Stephenson) in the in 1851 census. He is in the  township of Minster Yard with Beden in York. The house name is Minster Yard, I assume it is a boarding School teaching medicine. The head "Thomas Hanley Barker" is a member of the Royal College of Surgeons etc. I know Richard went on to a medical apprenticeship in November 1851. What I am asking is, can anybody tell me any more about this school. Thanks in anticipation. -- Regards, Laurence E Stephenson http://sites.google.com/site/convictstart/   I am Researching:-   Butcher..............Stroud, Gloucestershire, England   Buttigieg............Tripoli, Libya   Fortune..............Berwickshire, Scotland   Garlick...............Liverpool, Lancashire, England   Mee....................Kilflyn, Limerick, Ireland (Palatine)   Payne................Washingborough, Lincolnshire, England   Ritchie...............Bonhill, Dunbartonshire, Scotland   Stephenson.....Pickering, Yorkshire, England   Wittick...... ........(Convict) Walsall, Staffordshire, England ..... Ancestors in Yorkshire? http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/index.html; www.ryedalefamilyhistory.org; www.wharfedalefhg.org.uk; www.yorkshireparishregisters.com; www.yorkshireroots.org.uk; ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to YORKSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message