Conjoint Board, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

The Conjoint Board consisted of the Senate of the University and the Directors of the Prince Alfred Hospital, and appointed all offices for the Medical and Surgical staff of the hospital.

From University Calendar 1903 p343

The Medical officers are all appointed by a conjoint Board , consisting of the Senate of the University and the Directors of the Hospital. This conjoint Board likewise makes the by laws regulating the mode in which the students shall have access to and the course of studies to be pursued in, the Hospital"

"Royal Prince Alfred opened as a 146-bed hospital and received its first patients in 1882 at the Missenden Road site. During that year 1069 patients were admitted.In 1884, the first 14 medical students were accepted, establishing RPA as the first teaching hospital in NSW. Located adjacent to the medical school of the University of Sydney, RPA has always placed a major emphasis on teaching"

http://www.slhd.nsw.gov.au/rpa/history.html viewed February 2016

Further information on the University and hospital partnership can be found on http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/museum/mwmuseum/index.php/Royal_Prince_Alfred_Hospital viewed February 2016.