OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23351, 10 June 1941, Page 6

OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY

Proposed Post Graduate School PROFESSOR’S COMMENT (P.S.S.) DUNEDIN, June 9. The scheme put forward by the New Zealand Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society for the establishment of a new hospital for obstetrics and gynaecology, to serve as a postgraduate training school in New Zealand, was commented upon by Dr. J. B. Dawson, professor of obstetrics at the 'Otago Medical School. Dr, Dawson referred to the high standard of obstetrical work in New Zealand, and to the facilities available for young graduates to-day. He spoke of the advantages of the new scheme which, he stated, would probably have to be deferred until after the war. “It would be a mistake to suppose that the obstetrical work of the medical profession throughout New Zealand is not good,” Dr. Dawson said,'“for it can be confidently stated that the general standard of. obstetrics practised in the Dominion to-day is as good as, if not better than; that in any part of the Empire. Nevertheless, it would be an advantage,” he continued, “if further facilities for post-graduate training in. obstetrics were established, and it would be desirable that any new focus of .obstetrical training should be situated in thedlorth Island, since the South Island is supplied by the Queen Mary Maternity Hospital and the Medical School in Dunedin, The cost of such a scheme would be very considerable, both for establishment and maintenance,” Dr. Dawson added; “but some considerable proportion of it at least could justly be regarded as a charge upon the funds provided for by the general health service of the country. It is probable that it will be necessary to await the termination of the war before such expenditure can be considered.” -' . . ■