Bhattacharyya Kalyan B
Department of Neuromedicine, RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Neurol India. 2017 May-Jun;65(3):468-470. doi: 10.4103/neuroindia.NI_573_16.
In the early 1880s, Joseph Babinski was appointed as Chef de Clinique under Jean-Martin Charcot at Salpétrière, Paris, in France. He appeared for the post of Professeur Agrégé, the pinnacle of academic distinction in France in 1892. Charles Bouchard, the earliest pupil of Charcot, who described the Charcot-Bouchard aneurysm along with his master, was the Chief of the Board of Jury. Charcot and Bouchard did not see eye to eye in the later period, and when German Sée, an external examiner did not join the board of examiners following illness, Bouchard, instead of seeking the assistance of an alternate examiner, employed the special right of Vote of Absence. Babinski and all other pupils of Charcot were unsuccessful, while those of Bouchard, came out with flying colors. An embittered Babinski, along with some of the other unsuccessful candidates, appeared before the Ministry of Public Assistance after a protracted legal battle for nearly 2 years but lost the case. They were even ordered by the court to pay on behalf of the the successful candidates for the legal battle. Babinski never sat for the examination again and this is the story of one of the most ignominious episodes in an examination anywhere.
19世纪80年代初，约瑟夫·巴宾斯基被任命为法国巴黎萨尔佩特里埃医院让-马丁·夏科的临床主任。1892年，他参加了法国学术卓越巅峰的教授资格考试。夏尔科最早的学生夏尔·布沙尔曾与他的老师一起描述了夏尔科-布沙尔动脉瘤，他是评审委员会主席。夏尔科和布沙尔后期意见不合，当外部考官德国人塞因病未加入考官委员会时，布沙尔没有寻求替代考官的帮助，而是行使了缺席投票的特殊权利。巴宾斯基和夏科的所有其他学生都没有通过考试，而布沙尔的学生则成绩优异。愤愤不平的巴宾斯基和其他一些未通过考试的候选人，经过近2年的漫长法律斗争后，向公共援助部申诉，但败诉了。法庭甚至命令他们代表胜诉的候选人支付法律斗争的费用。巴宾斯基再也没有参加过考试，这是任何地方考试中最不光彩的事件之一。
