Suggested School For Doctors

Northern Advocate, 11 February 1943, Page 2

Suggested School For Doctors

A requr-st for co-operation by the board in a plan to establish a post-graduate medical training scheme was made by Dr ; j E. J. Cronin and Mr Douglas Robb, as ’ representative of the Auckland B.M.A. branch, to the Auckland Hospital Board on Monday.

Dr Cronin said the profession felt that the time was opportune to take advantage of the presence of first-class men in the American naval and military hospitals to initiate an organised scheme of postgraduate medical training. The aim w-as a medical centre available to the large bedy of medical practitioners for keeping' them abreast of medical advances.

American medical men had shown a desire to co-operate, and an Easter conference had been arranged, including a series of hospital visits. What was sought was a commodious lecture hall handy to the clinical material at the hospital, with the medical library also at hand there instead of in the University building, and fully classified displays of X-Ray films and pathological specimens. There was a university side to the scheme, but it. was fell that the Hospital Board, being interested in providing the best medical attention for the sick, might take the lead. Mr Robb suggested a lecture room to accommodate 120 to 200 with library and reading room attached, and a room for specimen displays. This wmuld entail a librarian and someone- to arrange and classify the displays. The addition of a cafeteria, acting as a hospital staff common room, would give a fillip to the staff spirit.

The beard chairman, Mr Moody, said he had urged the establishment of the medical library at the hospital three years ago. He asuxed the deputation of the board’s sympathy, though there would bibuilding difficulties to face.