OBSTETRICAL TRAINING

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 999, 16 June 1930, Page 14

OBSTETRICAL TRAINING

ST. HELEN’S HOSPITALS PAY FROM SURPLUS FUNDS Press Association STRATFORD, Today. In reference to the suggestions made by Dr. Henry Jellett, consulting obstetrician to the Health Department, that some of the surplus funds of the Obstetrical Endowment Appeal should be devoted to provide remuneration for the medical officers of larger St. Helen’s hospitals. Dr. Doris Gordon, secretary of the Obstetrical Society, stated that this matter was discussed at an executive meeting of'the society on May 21. The impression seemed to be widespread, she said, that the superintendents of the St. Helen’s hospitals were at present giving clinical instruction to students without remuneration, but Sir Lindo Ferguson, Dean of the Medical School, had informed the executive of the Obstetrical Society at its recent conference that a small salary for teaching services had been paid the officers of these institutions for the past one or two years. The executive of the Obstetrical Society considered that the remuneration at present awarded was not proportionate to the work these tutors were .doing and a resolution was therefore passed suggesting to the Otago University Council that out of the increased revenue henceforth available for obstetrical teaching in should consider increasing the salaries of obstetrical tutors in northern St. Helen’s hospitals which are now being used as additional training schools for senior students.