MEDICAL RESEARCH

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 59, 7 September 1937, Page 7

MEDICAL RESEARCH

ADVANCE IN AUSTRALIA

FACILITIES FOR STUDENTS

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, September 6.

In ■ future there will not be nearly as much reason for young New Zealand medical students and doctors to go to England and Scotland to further their studies as there has been in the past, according to the Auckland surgeon, Mr. Kenneth Mackenzie, who returned >by the Niagara from . Sydney after attending the triennial conference of the' Royal Australasian College of Surgeons at Adelaide.

Such', rapid advances had been made in. Australia for the provision of research and post-graduate facilities in medicine, he said, that Melbourne was now going to be the centre of medical advance in this part of the world.

While in Adelaide Mr Mackenzie attended the opening of the new Medical Research Institute, and when he was in Melbourne he had been given the opportunity of seeing what was being done for.the establishment of a new post-graduate school there.. This school, he said, war the most important medical event in Ne.w Zealand or Australia for many years, and it would do an un.told amount .of good.

"Instead of going to London or Edinburgh to continue their studies if they want to do so after leaving the vPtago Medical School." said Mr. Mackenzie,; "our students and doctors will now be able to find 'everything they want at Melbourne. One of the most immediate advantages^ of this is the obvious one contained in the saving of time. The school' is thoroughly equipped and . the , Australian College of Surgeons has seen to it that the director and staff are first-rate men. A bequest from the estate,of a Sydney surgeon, has helped to establish the school." '■■■' . .

Mr. Mackenzie remarked that though various matters ' had . received' the attention of the conference, national health insurance'had not been discussed in Australia., However, medical men'were watching1 New Zealand with the keenest interest to see" what would be done and how it could be organised.