MEDICAL EDUCATION.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 470, 31 March 1909, Page 5

MEDICAL EDUCATION.

PLEA FOR A HIGH STANDARD. (DI TELEGRAM—SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) I Auckland, March 30. Speaking at a presentation' function at the Auckland Hospital yesterday afternoon, Dr. Hardie Neil remarked that the people of New Zealand, as well as of Australia, expected from their medical students a much higher standard of general, medical education than the minimum required from oversea practitioners desirous of registering here. This he considered a wise policy, but contended that a high standard of medical education should bo demanded from all medical men applying for registration in order to safeguard the public. "Incompetency," remarked the speaker, "is ever prone to offer itself at attractive rates, but history showed that the undiscerning public is eventually the sufferer." He considered, moreover, that from tho effects of incompetency among practitioners there was no redress owing to the ignorance which generally prevailed with the public concerning medical matters. Hence tho necessity _ for vigilance in seeing that scientific attainments kept pace with the advances continually being made in tho study of medicine and surgery. Tho policy of the founders of the Medical School in New Zealand had borne good fruit, graduates therefrom having secured appointments on the resident and honorary staffs of all the large hospitals in the Dominion.