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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9221, 8 June 1893, Page 4

It is stated that the question of the O tago medical degrees will be brought before Parliament. The Senate of the New Zealand University is authorised, by an Act passed in 1883, to grant degrees in medicine. The general council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom resolved that graduates of the University of New Zealand, who can only study at Dunedin, " shall be admitted to registration on the Colonial Register." lhat is a recognition of the degree, and it is quite possible that when the protest from Wellington in reference to the registration of those students _ who failed to pass the examiners, is received, this recognition will be withdrawn. The second examiners were Dr. Cleghorn and Dr. Martin, and it is stated that they were not at all satisfied with the facilities for clinical teaching and practical working in Dunedin. This is exactly the point in which a small place is likely, or indeed certain, to be defective. Perhaps it would be well for Parliament to reconsider the whole question. At Cambridge and Edinburgh students who have kept two years' terms at Otago, can enter and complete their course at these Universities. It would, we think, be as much as should be attempted if New Zealand would seek to give only a part of a medical course, leaving tneir education to be completed at some place where, they can have abundant opportunities of clinical tuition, which they cannot have at any of the New Zealand hospitals. ■ r- ,i ________ -"