MEDICAL STUDENTS
OVERSEAS SERVICE
POSITION EXPLAINED
The liability of medical students for service overseas with the Armed Forces had been carefully considered by the Government after a thorough investigation of the position by the National Medical Committee, stated the Minister of Health (Mr. Nordmeyer) in the House of Representatives yesterday afternoon. He was replying to a question, notice of which had been given by Mr. C. A. Wilkinson (Independent, Egmont).
The Minister said that it had been decided as a matter of policy that students who had completed two years of their medical course, on appeal on the ground of public interest, should be entitled to postponement of service by way of sine die adjournment, this to be effective so long as they, bona fide, continued their medical course. First- and second-year students were entitled to seek postponement of their calling up for service by way of appeal on the ground of undue hardship. Such appeals would be given due consideration by Armed Forces appeal boards on their individual merits, and in this respect medical students were in the same position as other university students.
The Minister added that the question of post-war assistance to medical students was being considered by the Government.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 73, 27 March 1941, Page 5
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203MEDICAL STUDENTS Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 73, 27 March 1941, Page 5
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