DOCTORS FOR LEPERS
Misson Offers Bursaries
The Mission to lepers will offer financial assistance to medical students who have the requisite personal qualifications and will make leprosy their specialty and serve with the mission. This was decided at the halfyearly meeting of the council of the mission in Wellington. reports the secretary ithe Rev. Murray Feist). The help will be on a sliding scale, according to the financial circumstances of the recruit, and not a bursary of a stated amount. It will be available normally after the applicant has passed the first professional examination but in exceptional cases will be available earlier, and will in many cases make possible some j ost-graduate studv in surgery or tropical medicine and then special training in leprosy at one of the mission's hospitals. This assistance will be regarded as a loan, to be waived if the candidate gives a stipulated number of years of service to the mission, but will be repaid in instalments if he does not. The offer applies to women as well as men.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29587, 9 August 1961, Page 12
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