SHORTAGE OF DOCTORS
STfIIED-YEAR MEDICAL STUDENTS ■ TO BE RETAINED. It is understood (says a Duriedin correspondent) that in consequence of the shortage of medical practitioners in New Zealand and the difficulty of maintaining an adequato supply of junior house surgeons in the hospitals, the Government lias decided that third-year medical students must bo retained-in the Dominion, and that instructions to that effect have been issued to the military service boards. A number of the studonts who :ire affected by this decision have either enlisted or been called up by ballot. In tome cases applications by the Dean of tho Medical Faculty for the exemption of the balloted men amongst them were dismissed, temporary exemption only being granted to enable tho students to sit for their first professional examination, which was held last week. Application will now be made to tho military service boards for a reconsideration of the cases in which, this temporary exemption only was granted.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3095, 28 May 1917, Page 5
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157SHORTAGE OF DOCTORS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3095, 28 May 1917, Page 5
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