MEDICAL STUDENTS

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 21, 20 October 1943, Page 8

MEDICAL STUDENTS

Limit For Second Year Of Course (Bv Telegraph.— Press Association.) DUNEDIN. October 19. '[’he council of the University of Otago at its meeting today decided that the maximum number of students that could be admited for the second year ot the medical course should be the same in 1944 as in the present year, namely 120. The council had before it the report ot the medical committee which stated that the committee had considered what action should be taken in view of the fact that the university had not received information as to the number of second year students to be accepted in 1944. lhe chancellor had sent a telegram to the Minister of Education. Mr. Mason, to the effect that it was impossible to postpone this matter longer and that the council promised to take 120 students lor 1944 unless information to the contrary was received. The chancellor, Mr. W. J. Morrell, said he had just received a telegram from the Minister 'of Education on the subject. This read 'as follows: ‘'Referring to your telegram of September 30 as to the number of medical students to be admited, if your council is satisfied in view of the circumstances that the physical limitation makes it not possible to provide for more than 120 students, then I must accept your figure.” On the motion of Dr. C. E. Dereus, it was decided that the university should not take more than 120 seeond-year medical students in 1944.