OTAGO MEDICAL SCHOOL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19147, 15 April 1924, Page 9

OTAGO MEDICAL SCHOOL.

AMERICAN DOCTOR’S OPINION. (Prom Our Own Coreespondkxt.) AUCKLAND, April 14. “The Otago Medical School is doing: excel lent work, but there is sufficient clinical material in Auckland for a school in this city.” said Dr Richard K. Smith, one of the American sttrgeons who attended the recent medical conference in Auckland, and who has arrived back from Australia en route for lire "United States. Dr Smith pointed out that it lakes many years to develop a medical school, but under proper auspices and with plenty of money available. he considered one might well be estahlishel here. No doubt, he said, the (Mago School had served the needs of the dominion in the past, which was probably partly due to the fact that it had not been embarrassed by a multitude of smaller medical schools such as sometimes existed in other countries. There was the additional point that many New Zealand medical and surgical men had been abroad and kept in touch with what was going on in the surgical world. Ho was satisfied that graduates of the Otago School were well educated and of a high standard. It was. therefore, better that there should be only one or two good schools titan a lot of less efficient institutions.