OTAGO MEDICAL SCHOOL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18583, 18 December 1934, Page 13

OTAGO MEDICAL SCHOOL

PRAISE BY EXAMINER PTNE TRAINING H 1 High praise of the Otago University medical school and its equipment was expressed by Professor 0. A. Buckmaster, examiner in physiology for the Royal College of Surgeons, in an interview at Dunedin. Referring to his ex : perience of the examinations of the past few days, he said that the standard of the candidates reflected undoubted credit on the teachers and staff of the laboratories at the school. The equipment, he said, was not excelled in any other of -the British Dominions. With Mr. Gordon Gordon-Taylor, who Jins-been, examining in the anatomical Professor Buckmastcr has been 'conducting the primary fellowship examination /for the Royal College of Surgeons. This is the first occasion cn which this lias been done in New Zealand. . Of 23 candidates who sat an exceptionally large number, said Professor Buckmaster, were found qualified to pass. Professor Buckmaster laid stress on the fact that the examination, as carried out in Dunedin, was exactly the same as that conducted for the primary fellow ship tests in London, and the standard required of the candidates Was identical with that in Britain. He said there was a possibility that in another three years the examiners might visit the Dominion again. When he conducted examinations in Melbourne three and a-half years ago. said Professor Buckmaster, there was only one man from New Zealand among the candidates, and lie was surprised therefore to find over 210 sitting for the ■ examination on this occasion. It was a large number for a country of such a small population as New Zealand.