N.Z. DOCTORS PRAISED.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 458, 20 May 1932, Page 8

N.Z. DOCTORS PRAISED.

Graduates Working in London Hospitals.

(Special to the “ Star.”) DUNEDIN, May 20. Dr D’Ath, Professor of Pathology at Otago Medical School, who has returned to Dunedin after his visit to England, said that he met large numbers of young New Zealand doctors in London, occupying in many cases coveted positions among London hospital appointments. Everywhere he found expressions of admiration for the type of graduate going from New Zealand to work in London; in fact some of the hospitals made a point of selecting New Zealand graduates for vacancies if Dominiontrained men were available. It was amazing to see the high regard in which New Zealand graduates were held. The standard of medicine and surgery in Germany was found by Dr D’Ath to be exceptionally high. Despite the depression the German Government, which controlled all Universities and medical schools, was maintaining the equipment and the standard of education to a remarkable degree. Many of the medical schools had recently received large new equipment to keep them abreast of the modern tendency to augment lectures and demonstrations by means of visual teaching, such as by cinemas and epidiascopes. “ This is one direction to which we shall have to give attention in our medical schools in the near future if we wish to keep abreast of the times,” remarked Dr D’Ath.