OXFORD MEDICAL SCHOOL

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22304, 19 January 1938, Page 10

OXFORD MEDICAL SCHOOL

TRAINING FOR DOMINION GRADUATES DETAILS of lord NUFFIELD’S RECENT GIFT or* om coe»iho«d»»U LONDON. December 20. The fullest details available to date of Lord Nuffield’s new 00C ' « dv lo assist Dominion « r ® duat “ are at, the Medical School at Oxfo d ar contained in the statement of the « issued by the registrar of the versify. , . ‘•Lord Nuffield has offered to put at the disposal of the trustees appointed If administer his gift of £ 2,000.000 to the University of Oxford for he purpose of the Medical School, t.he sum of £168,000 in order to provide fa U®. to graduate School,” the registrar announced. • DUlin L r h C aTbeen Sl muc°h impressed by n the 3 nourishing condition of their medical schools, m spite of their re the great cen # scheme would bT valuable which would provide easier access to the Ox fnrd School for selected graduate Students He has therefore offered to Sbiish in Oxford three demonstratorships, to be held in turn in the departments of anatomy bio-chetms-trv nathology, pharmacology, ana nhvsiology and three assistantships m fte Tiartroents of medlcto, surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, anaesthetics, orthopaedic surgery, and theraP8 ‘These posts v will be tenable for a fixed period by graduates eligible fo-, or already holdmg research p tlinse universities of Australia, rxevv Zealand, and South Africa which grant medical degrees. The holders will be selected in rotation by those universities. Payment will be made to the Oxford departments in which tn»* visiting demonstrators and .assistants work, of a sum for apparatus and mcithose Dominions will thus enjoy all the becoming for a time an integral part of the Oxford School; the University of Oxford will benefit by the presence of additional highly qualified workers, and the Dominions will benefit by their experience on their return. ‘The scheme also contemplates tne appointment from time to time by Oxford University of a visiting professo who would tour the Dominions m order to give information on research in Great Britain and to gain information about the needs of the Oominions.”