MEDICAL SCHOOL ADMISSIONS

Southland Times, Issue 23773, 22 March 1939, Page 4

MEDICAL SCHOOL ADMISSIONS

FOREIGN GRADUATES DECISION OF COMMITTEES OF COUNCIL (United Press Association) DUNEDIN, March 21. In terms of a decision reached by the finance and medical committees of the Otago University Council, 13 foreign graduates- will be admitted to the Medical School. Reporting to the meeting of the council today, Mr J. 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 13 persons, subject, in the case of the last three, to their being admitted by the Medical Board: Drs C. Newman, F. Kral, H. L. Hersch, M. Reichmann, J. Weiser, K. Koplowitz Kent, D. V. Kallmann, A. Heppner, O. Semon and H. Schmidt and Levinsohn, Segal and Oestreicher. The registrar was instructed to write to the Department of Customs and the Department of Education informing them of the action that had been taken, but pointing out that in future years it will be possible to accommodate a verj small number of such graduates. The registrar was also instructed to write to the Medical Council informing it of the position.