IN HIGH REGARD

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 118, 21 May 1932, Page 7

IN HIGH REGARD

NEW ZEALAND DOCTORS SOUGHT AFTER IN LONDON DUNEDIN, May 20. Dr. D’Ath, Professor of Pathology at. tho Otago Alodical School, who has returned after a visit to England, said that he mot large numbers of young New Zealand doctors in London, occupying in many cases coveted positions among the London hospital appointments. Everywhere he found expressions of admiration for tho type of graduate coming from New Zealand to work in London. In fact, some of tho hospitals made a point of selecting New Zealand graduates for vacaneivs if Dominion-trained men wire nviilable. It was amazing to see the high regard in which New Zealand graduptes wore hold. Tho standard o.' medicine and k ”r-

ge - in Germany was found by Dr. D’Ath to bo exceptionally high. DespitOithc depression, the German Government, which controlled all universities and medical schools, was maintaining equipment and a standard .of education to a remarkable degree. Mnnv 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 visu 1 teaching sue’ as by cinemas and epidiascopes “This is one direction to which we shall have to ~’vc attention in our

medic. 1 schools in the near future we wish to keep abreast of the times remarked Dr. D’Ath.