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William Elliot Carnegie Dickson
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 1/November/1904
Date of Fellowship admission: 21/July/1908
William Elliot Carnegie Dickson was born in Edinburgh in 1878, the son of George Dickson, a medical practitioner. He graduated MB CM from the University of Edinburgh in 1901 and MD in 1905. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1908. His appointments in Edinburgh included Assistant Pathologist at the Royal Infirmary, Lecturer in Pathology and Bacteriology at the University of Edinburgh, and Pathologist and Bacteriologist to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children. He later moved to London to continue his career in pathology. He was the author of 'The Bone-Marrow' (1908) and 'Bacteriology: Man's Microbe Friends and Foes' (1914). He died in 1954.
Year of medical qualification
1905
Type of medical qualification
MD
Fellowship
The main qualification issued by the College, awarded regularly since the College’s foundation. This qualification was granted based on demonstrated breadth of experience and did not require an individual to pass a certain examination.