MEDICAL STUDENTS.

Auckland Star, Issue 291, 9 December 1925, Page 16

MEDICAL STUDENTS.

HOSPITAL TBAINING MOOTED. AN AUCKLAND PROPOSAL. i ■ _____ ' ' A proposal to grant facilities at Auckland for hospital training for medical students during their sixth years of study received the consideration of mem:i,v, bers of the University College Council last evening: ; Mr. Kenneth Mackenzie stated that the University Commission had suggested ! that medical students in their final year a training at the Otago University should be given facilities for hospital work in cities other than Dunedin. The Auck- , land Hospital had been specifically mentioned by the commission. Mr. Mackenzie had learnt from the chairman of , the Auckland Hospital Board that the facilities .would be available.' The .apparatus at the Auckland Hospital 'was; sufficient for the work, whilst the staff*, was willing to teach under the auspices of the college council. Mr: Mackenzie mentioned that there was aleo a long standing bequest of the late Dr. Philson for the purchase of books as 'coon ac there was instruction provided . for medical students at the Auokland Hoe* pital. Other hospital boards in Auckland had also promised to lend every assistance to the sixth year students. It was stated that the proposal would ; come before the senate. ' The council decided that a report, showing the facilities Auckland was prepared to offer, be drawn up.