U.S. MEDICAL SCHOOLS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1012, 1 July 1930, Page 16

U.S. MEDICAL SCHOOLS

HELP GIVEN BY ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION HIGH STANDARD REACHED From Our Resident Reporter WELLINGTON, Today. The work of the Rockefeller Foundation, which has heavily financed the better medical schools in the United States, thus enabling them to have more full-time men on their staffs who can devote themselves to teaching and research, was praised by Dr. Evarts Graham, of the Washington University School of Medicine at St. Louis, who arrived in Wellington by the Makura. Dr Graham is on his way to Melbourne to give a series of post-gradu-ate lectures under the auspices of the British Medical Association. “The efforts of the Rockefeller Foundation liav6 had an extremely beneficial effect, not only upon the medical profession, but upon the whole community, because the medical schools of America are turning out better doctors than they ever did before,” said Dr. G rah am. He said that there was a tremendous demand to enter the medical schools of the United States, and tho result was that the universities were able to select only the most qualified men Most doctors in the States were university graduates, and after graduating they gained further training while resident at a hospital for at least a year. Women were not entering the field of medicine in the United States in such nmnbers as they did in the British Isles. It was difficult for them to find practices, apart from such positions as school doctors. Women comprised only about 5 per cent, of the | students in the medical schools.