MEDICAL SCHOOL

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 April 1946, Page 6

MEDICAL SCHOOL

REPORT ON ADMISSION OF STUDENTS

(P.A.) DUNEDIN, April 17. The special committee set up to report regarding the admission of students to the second-year classes in medicine at the Otago Medical School submitted its findings to a meeting of the Council of Otago University yesterday. The report was adopted, but it was pointed out that it was not the last word on the subject, and the question of a “common examination” for entry into the school was being gone into by a medical committee. The decisions reached by the committee were as follows:— That if, in any year, the number of servicemen admitted is not as great as the number of places reserved for servicemen, the number of places reserved in the succeeding year be not increased by the number of unallotted places; that the council be recommended to inform the Rehabilitation Department that it would welcome information as to the military record of candidates, but that the council resolve to reserve to itself unrestricted right of selection of students for admission; that the council be recommended to give second preference, after returned servicemen, to graduates up to the end of 1948 to include students entering second-year medical classes in 1949, but that no guarantee of priority be given after that date.