FOREIGN DOCTORS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19893, 22 March 1939, Page 14

FOREIGN DOCTORS

OTAGO UNIVERSITY ADMISSION LOR STL DIES (l',M- Pnsss Association.) . DUNEDIN, this day. In the terms of the decision reached by the finance and medical committees of the Otago University Council, 13 foreign graduates will be admitted to the medical school. Reporting on the matter to a meeting of the council yesterday Mr. ,1. Wallace, chairman of the finance committee, said that the committees had conferred with Dr. Carmalt Jones, dean of the medical faculty, on the question and, as a result, it had resolved to approve of the admission of the following persons subject, in the ease of the last three, to their being admitted by the medical board: Doctors C. Newman, F. Krai, 11. L. I-lersch, M. Rcichmann. J. Weiser, K. Koplowitz Kent, D. V. Kallmann, A. iieppner, O. Semon, H. Schmidt, and Levinsohn, Segal and Oestreicher. The registrar was instructed to write to the Departments of Customs and Education informing them of the action that had been taken, but pointing out that in future years it will be possible to accommodate a very small number of such graduates. Ihe registrar was also instructed to write to the Medical Council informing it of the position.