MEDICAL PROFESSION IN N.Z. MAY BECOME OVERCROWDED
(P.A.) DUNEDIN, Mar. 8. With 120 young doctors graduating each year from the Otago Medical School, there seemed to be no doubt that the medical profession in this country would become over-crowded. Dr. L. S. P. Davidson, Professor of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, said in an interview today. Dr. Davidson is touring New Zealand lecturing to students and members of the medical profession on such subjects as dietetics and rutrition research. The position would right itself automatically in time. Dr. Davidson said, for as the doctors’ economic position deteriorated so the numbers entering the school would slacken off. it would, therefore, be rash for New Zealand to think of establishing a second medical school anywhere else in the country for at least five years. If in that time the numbers graduating annually had fallen below the 100 mark, as he predicted they probably would, there would be no need at all for a second school.
Dr. Davidson has been impressed by the Otago Medical School. The buildings were new, large and very fine. He doubted if he had seen such good new buildings in any school he had visited,
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22890, 9 March 1949, Page 8
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