TEACHING OF DOCTORS

Southland Times, Issue 23025, 20 October 1936, Page 7

TEACHING OF DOCTORS

ADVANCED METHODS IN ENGLAND AND U.S.A. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) New York, October 18. Dr F. E. Wall, a member of the Legislative Council and the Board of Health of New South Wales, who has been travelling in England and Europe since February inquiring into teaching methods in medical schools and the technique of examining proponents of life insurance, and who is now. on his way home, stated in an interview today: “I regard the teaching methods m England and the United States superior to anything seen anywhere. These countries have an advantage over Australia in that there are larger classes and more money to enable the schools to establish faculty chairs instead of lectureships. “The most remarkable advance in colour cinemas of all the important operations and the practice of notifying specialists of unusual disease cases enable them to conduct broad research work.”

Dr Wall was greatly impressed by the way in which England and America handled certain public health matters, especially venereal diseases and tuberculosis. He would like to see Australia attack these problems along the same lines, with public venereal disease clinics, a thorough inquiry into the background of tuberculosis cases and continued following up by the authorities.