MEDICAL STUDY

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21136, 8 September 1938, Page 6

MEDICAL STUDY

NUFFIELD FELLOWSHIP DR. FALCONER SELECTED By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, September 7. Dr. M. A. Falconer, of Dunedin, has been nominated by the University of New Zealand for a Nuffield Fellowship, which entitles him to three years medical study at Oxford. He is a son of Dr. A. R. Falconer, Medical Superintendent of Ashburn Hall, Dunedin, and is a graduate of the Otago Medical School. For the last four years he has been doing post-graduate medical work in England and the United States, and recently finished an appointment at the Mayo Clinic. He returned from America last week. Professor T. A. Hunter, Vice-Chan-cellor of the New Zealand University, who returned from Sydney to-day after attending a conference of Vice-Chan-cellors at Melbourne, where details regarding the Nuffield Fellowships were discussed, said that two Fellowships were available each year to South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, and the conference had to work out a scheme by which the best men would be available. It was agreed this year that Australia and New Zealand should make nominations. One of the conditions of the Fellowship is that the successful nominee must return to his country at the expiration of three years and remain there at least five. If New Zealand’s nomination is accepted, Dr. Falconer will leave for Oxford next month.