MEDICAL ADVANCES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 198, 7 September 1937, Page 9

MEDICAL ADVANCES

Press Association.)

Facilities in Australia AUCKLAND DOCTOR IMPRESSED

(By Telegraph—

AUCKLAND, Last Night. In future there- will not be nearly a« much reason for young New Zealand medical students and doctors to go to England and Scotland to further their studies as there has been in the past, according to an Auckland surgeon, Mr. Kenneth Mackenzie, who returned by the Niagara from Sydney after attending the triennial conference of the Etoyal Australasian College of Surgeons at Adelaide. Such rapid advances had been made in Australia for the provision of xesearch and post-graduate facilities in medicine, he said, that Melbourne was oow going to he the centre of medical advance in this part of the world. While in Adelaide Mr. Mackenzie attended the opening of new Medical Researeh Institute, and when he was in Melbourne, he had been given an opportunity of seeing what was being done for the establishment of a new postgraduate scliool there. This school, he said, was the mosfc important medical event in New Zealand or Australia for many yearsi and it would do an untold amount of gpod. "Instead of going to London or Edinburgh to continne their studies, if they want to do so after leaving the Otago Medical School, said Mr. Mackenzie, ' 'our students and doctors will now be able to find everything they want at Melbourne, One of the most immediate .advantages of this is the obvious one contained in the saving of time. "The school is tkorougklv equipped and the Australian College of Surgeons have seen to it that the director and staff are first-rate men. A bequest from tho. estate of a Sydney surgeon has helped to estahlish the school." Mr. Mackenzie remarked that, although various matters had revceived the attention of the confereuee, national health insurance had not been discussed. In Australia, however, medical meu were watchiug New Zealand with the kccnOst interest to see what would bc done, and how it could be organised,