NUFFIELD SURGEON
DR. FALCONER LEAVES FOR
OXFORD
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEpiN, This Day. Dr. Murray A. Falconer, F.R.C.S., left by air to take up his new appointment as Nuffield Assistant in Surgery at Oxford University. Dr. Falconer, who is • a son of Dr. A. R. Falconer, of Dunedin, qualified in 1933 from the Otago Medical School and after spending a year as ,a/ house surgeon.at the Dunedin Hospital went to Britain. There he held successive appointments as pathology assistant to Professor H. M. Turnbull at the London Hospital, house physician to Lord Horder at the British Post-graduate Medical School, clinical assistant at the Chelsea Hospital for Women, and surgical registrar at the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. Largely because of the surgical research work which he carried out at Aberdeen Dr. Falconer was appointed last year assistant in surgery at the Mayo Clinic in the United States. On completion of this appointment he returned to New Zealand for a brief visit. At his new appointment in Oxford Dr. Falconer will specialise in neurological and general surgery under Professor Hugh Cairns.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 128, 26 November 1938, Page 15
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178NUFFIELD SURGEON Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 128, 26 November 1938, Page 15
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