THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1920. A ROCKFELLER GIFT.

Wairarapa Age, 10 August 1920, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1920. A ROCKFELLER GIFT.

The fact has not been given general publicity in Now Zealand that tho Bockfeller Foundation has made a gift of £1,205,000 to the University College Hospital Medical School and University College in London. Tho Times of June 18, in an article dealing with this splendid gift, says:—"The purpose of the Foundation is to promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world. The trustees have tho right and the duty to seek agents, for thoir high task wherosoovor they may find them. Their attention had been attracted to a new system for the development of medical teaching . and research advocated independently by the American exponent of education, Mr. Abraham Flexncr, and by Sir George Newman in England. The system divides clinical training into three closely correlated units, respectively for surgery, medicine, and obstetrics. Each units is under the direction of a professor giving practically his full time to education and research. He has the assistance of a qualified staff of full-time and part-time men, the control of fifty to one hundred beds, a special out-patient department, laboratory, accommodation, scientific equipment for clinical teaching, and a post mortem service of his own. Thus in each unit the scientific and clinical teaching aro interlinked, and tho training of the student is under the direction of one chief —a chief, moreover, who is in the first place simply a teacher, and not a consultant building up his practice. Two members of the Kockfeller Foundation, .on a visit to London, discovered that an attempt to establish the unit system was being made at University College. They inspected it, approved of it, and invited a deputation from the College and its medical school to visit New York to discuss the possibility of a large grant being made. The offer has now materialised. The proposed benefaction is on a princely scale, and, although a scheme, is proposed, the donors explicitly disclaim any dictation of methods or laying down of conditions."