Thiery wanted a Royal Institute, which would provide the pick of the young doctors with a more advanced, essentially practical training; a sort of residential school would be set up in the Jardin du Roi that would operate in close co operation with a hospital (La Salpetriere, which was nearby, would serve the purpose); there the professors would teach as they visited the patients; the Faculte would merely appoint a doctor regent for the public examinations of the Institute.