Intake Of Medical Students
Sir,—According to your recent report, the Otago Medical School has once again rejected more than half the students who passed the stiff medical intermediate examination. Ostensibly, this is due to crowded conditions at the Medical School and staff difficulties. As the shortage of medical practitioners Is a matter of grave public concern. I suggest that at the beginning of the 1966 academic year, “The Press" send an observer to Dunedin to see just how overcrowded the Medical School really is. Last time I was down there I did not notice any army huts or ternnorary buildings, whereas Canterbury University has made use of these for 20 years. If engineers and physicists and biochemists can be trained in temporary build Ings, why cannot doctors? Where there’s a will there’s a way!—Yours, etc., NEW ZEALANDER. December 21. 1965.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30940, 22 December 1965, Page 12
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