THE DUNEDIN MEDICAL SCHOOL.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 598, 28 August 1909, Page 11

THE DUNEDIN MEDICAL SCHOOL.

•ITS WOMEN STUDENTS. ■Eleven \ women have :'already taken their medical - degrees- at - the Otago Medical Sohool, and, at the present time,- five-girl students are going through their course there. ar©-small .• mimbers r and ''Dominica." when visiting Dunedm recently, asked permission to go through the school and learn sometiling, of the of these undergraduates

wh<s;aro taking up ;such an' unusual course: '.Thcro areargood,;many' 'reasons why the girl wlw: wishes -to' pursueJher/education?,be:' yond"the^walls ;of;-the 56coil<lfl.ry y fy.hool and. to'-;fake* ( up ',one^bf,vthe, : -shou'd scarcely > of».going "in" for medicine. For there Ls'ionly AH c -k}and-girlwould i- itimes: before committing'herself'i to Is'pehdiiig; foiirVor five; yeara away '.fftm' her people. .' :year'_s course,' wJii j ch , ;incluQe's l 'Oiily ; . bidlogy, :phy.sics,"and chemistry;. can-be taken; at any 'one.#:the ieollegesj but "the foiir 'years' that .'follow.-'must 1 be; sjMt; • at-sDiihedin';: and;':as :it ;is' ; practically, unknown:Jor/a woman'. to 'go straight through 1 '; course, :; without /one -break, the student'; must .consider the>prol»bility.that\th^ : : four''iyears.' will ,aotuaHy^len^Ml>©to'?fiVe^^7i^.'•'• ! i , ,!' , . That is to say she will rcally.-havd to'spend six/years over her.; course - before ' she 1 can begin- to; look for. any ■ chalice. of /earning' money, and very fewjNow Zealand girls who have to earn their: own:; living.- are in a position, to spend BUt-eipetiaive-years in preparation. 1 ' •Then again, • tbo ( doctor should bo more brainy than' the- teacher is expected to be.