MEDICAL STUDY

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 33, 9 February 1943, Page 4

MEDICAL STUDY

A SCHOOL FOR DOCTORS AUCKLAND SCHEME PROPOSED A request for co-operation by the board in a plan to establish a postgraduate medical training scheme was made by Dr. E. J. Cronin and Mr. Douglas Robb, as representative of the local B.M.A. branch, to the Auckland Hospital Board last night. Dr. Cronin said the profession felt that the time was opportune to take advantage of the presence of firstclass men in the American naval and miiltary hospitals to initiate an organised scheme of post-graduate medical training. The aim was a medical centre available to the large body of general practitioners for keeping them abreast of medical advances. American medical men had shown a desire to co-operate, and an Easter conference had been arranged, including a serres of hospital visits. What was sought was a commodious lecture hall handy to the clinical material at the hospital, with the medical library also at hand there instead of in the University building, and fully classified displays of X-ray films and pathological specimens. There was a university side to the scheme, but it Was felt that the Hospital Board, being interested in providing the best medical attention for the sick, might take the leadi Mr. Robb suggested a lecture foom to accommodate 120 to 200, with library and reading room attached, and a room for specimen displays. This would entail a librarian and someone to arrange and classify the displays. The addition of a cafeteria, acting as a hospital staff common room, would give a filip to the staff s P irit - j The board chairman, Mr. Moody, said he had urged the establishment of rthe medical library at the hospital three years ago. He assured the deputation of the board's sympathy, though there would be building difficulties to face.