STUDY OF MEDICINE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19423, 7 September 1937, Page 11

STUDY OF MEDICINE

MELBOURNE OPPORTUNITY POST-GRADUATE SCHOOL BENEFIT TO DOMINION (Par Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. In future there will not be nearly as much reason for young New Zealand medical students and doctors to go to England and Scotland to further their studies, as there has been in the past, according to an Auckland surgeon, Dr. Kenneth Mackenzie, who returned by the Niagara from Sydney after attending the triennial conference of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons at Adelaide. Such rapid advances had been made in Australia for the provision of research and post-graduate faelities in medicine, he said, that Melbourne was going to be the centre of medical advance in this part of the world. While in Adelaide, Mr. Mackenzie attended the opening of the new Medical Research Institute, and when lie was in Melbourne he had been given the opportunity of seeing what was being done for the establishment of the new post-graduate school there. Saving of Time This school, he said, was the most important medical event in New Zealand or Australia for mainy years, and it would do an untold amount of good. "Instead of going to London or Edinburgh to continue their studies, if they want to do so, after leaving the Otago Medical School," said Mr. Mackenzie, "our students and doctors will now be able to find everything they want at Melbourne. One of the most immediate advantages of this is the obvious one contained in the saving of time. The school is thoroughly equipped and the Australian College of Surgeons has seen to it that the director and staff are first rate men. A bequest from the estate of a Sydney surgeon has helped to establish the school." Mr. Mackenzie remarked that although various matters had received the attention of the conference, national health insurance had not been discussed. In Australia, however, medical men are watching New Zealand with the keenest interest to see what would be done and how it could be organised.