TRAINING DOCTORS

New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25318, 27 September 1945, Page 6

TRAINING DOCTORS

POST-GEADUATE STAGE

AUCKLAND HELP ASSURED Auckland was in an especially favourable situation to assist with postgraduate training of physicians, said Major-General F, T. Bowerbank, Direc-tor-General of the Army, and Air medical services, in an address to the Dominion branch of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians at a, luncheon in Auckland yesterday. For six years, practically no specialists had been strained in New Zealand or Britain, and this must result in a great shortage of physicians for some years to come, General Bowerbank said. With modern trends in medicine, it was essential to have sufficient physicians and surgeons and it; was hoped to establish post-graduate training centres in each of the four metropolitan hospitals. Referring to the college of physicians, he said that this differed from a university in that, instead of being concerned with the '.education of the student until his graduation, it began with the after-training of the graduate. .Members entered the college by examination, fellows being appointed from the ranks of distinguished medical men specialising in pure medicine. After its formation in Sydney in BMB, the college had been able to achieve little in the subsequent six years of war, but the present gathering in Auckland was a good augury for the future. "The college need not look in vain to us," said -Mr A. .). Moody, chairman of the Auckland Hospital Board. "1 will undertake to give all the help 1 can with post-graduate training in Auckland. The health of the community will benefit in the long run from this. Medical science cannot give immortality but it should enable us to live our full A number of papers on medical subjects are being discussed at, the two-day meeting of the college, which will conclude today. Physicians from various parts of the Dominion are attending.

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NURSES AND MIDWIVES

HOUSE PASSES BILL MATERNITY TRAINING NEEDS (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday Speaking to the committal of the Nurses and Midwives Bill in the House of Representatives tonight, the Leader of the Opposition, .Air Holland, said it was a good measure which gave effect to Opposition suggestions made in the House last vcar.

Mr M. 11. Oram (Opposition—Manawatu) asked the Minister of Health. Mr Xordmcycr, if he would consider the provision of more training places for midlives, that was, for nurses who were fully trained in maternity nursing and whd desired to train for the additional qualification as mid wives. If more we. 1 trained, he added, the severe staff shortage and overcrowding in hospitals would be relieved. Mr Nordrneyer said that some nurses took a maternity course not because they wanted to do maternity nursing, but because they wished to qualify for a higher salary as ward sisters. This made it difficult for others to obtain training. The position might be met by a salary scale which allowed'an increment to sisters in recognition of their maternity training only if they were practising in maternity, nursing and not if they remained in general nursing. He was aware that many excellent nurses were being denied the opportunity to train for maternity nursing.

The department was now endeavouring to sift the lists of candidates to see that only those who were likely to use their training were admitted to the course, the Minister continued. If more training institutions were recognised care would have to be exercised to see that the standards were not lowered. Mr Oram also advocated recognition of more hospitals as training institutions for nursing aids, but Mr Nordrneyer said there were insufficient trainees offering for the existing vacancies and it was doubtful if the opening of more hospitals to trainees would remedy the present shortage. The bill was put through the remaining stages and passed.