MEDICAL RESEARCH

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 April 1938, Page 5

MEDICAL RESEARCH

VISCOUNT NUFFIELD'S PLAN. Further details of Viscount Nuffield’s plan to enable Dominion medical graduates to study at Oxford are given in the deed of trust which has just been agreed upon between his representatives and the University: The documents have been forwarded to the Dominion universities concern-

ed, which must now, within a limited time, approve arrangements for' giving effect to the scheme.

As originally proposed, a sum of £163,000 is to be held in trust to establish three demonstratorsnips tenable in the departments of anatomy, biochemistry, pathology, pharmacology, physiology, and others which may be approved, and three clinical assistantships tenable in medical departmenfs.

Graduation at a Dominion university is an essential to appointment. Demonstrators must have had research .experience and assistants must have a medical qualification obtained in the Dominions or Britain. All candidates must intend, immediately on termination of their appointment, to return to their Dominion for at least five years’ work of the kind carried out at Oxford. One demonstrator and one assistant

will be appointed to begin duties at the start of each academic year, but as far as possible not more than one demonstrator or assistant will be engaged in the same department. The appointments will be for three years, and will carry emoluments of £4OO per annum for women or unmarried men, and £6OO for married men, payable quarterly. The last quarterly payment will be made on the return of the holder to

his Dominion.- The sum of £l5O will be avaiable to those appointed as travelling allowance. The Universities of New Zealand, Australia and South Africa, which provide facilities for medical research, will make nominations in rotation. Those participating at present arc the Universities of New Zealand, Adelaide, Melbourne, Queensland, Sydney, Capetown and Witwatersrand. Provision is also made for the ap-

pointment from time to time, subject to funds being sufficient, of a person eminent in the study and practice of medicine or some allied subject, to visit the Dominions, and by the delivery of lectures in the university or other means give information regarding research in Britain, and gain information to assist Oxford University in carrying out the scheme. His salary shall not exceed £lOOO a year plus a travelling allowance.