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MB 1912, ChB 1912, MD 1914, Regius Chair of Forensic Medicine 1928–53, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine 1931–53, Rector of the University of Edinburgh 1954–57 Scottish forensic pathologist, published the textbook Textbook of Forensic Medicine in 1925 Thomas Stewart Traill: MD 1802, Prof. Med Jurisprudence 1833–1862
The faculty also possesses the only brain bank in New Zealand. This brain bank contains over 400 brains bequeathed to the medical school. [3] These include brains donated by people who died with neurological diseases such as Huntington's disease and Parkinson's disease.
Its aims are "to promote, encourage and support the study of the history of medicine", with a particular interest in Scottish Medicine. Founded at a time when the study of history of medicine was dominated by medical doctors, the society aimed, from the start, to have a broad based membership, to interest others in the subject.
Subsequently, he became president of the British Society for the History of Medicine and the History of Medicine Society at the Royal Society of Medicine. [2] [1] 1951: John Ritchie (1882–1959) Friend of Guthrie, he co-founded the SSHM and contributed to the journal Medical History, which the society co-established in 1957. [1] [3] [4] 1954
Opened in 1875, the Otago Medical School initially taught a two-year course with training completed overseas. 1887 saw the first medical graduate who had been taught solely at Otago. In 1891, the medical school was formally made the Faculty of Medicine. Until 1920, training took only four years, but was then extended to six. [citation needed]
In 1926 Wellington Hospital became a recognised teaching hospital and was established as a branch faculty in 1937. [1] In the 1960s there was debate about whether there should be a full medical school attached to Victoria University or a University of Otago clinical school; in 1971 it was decided that a clinical school be established.
Sir Edward Sayers – Methodist missionary; military medical administrator; consultant physician, then Dean, of the University of Otago Dunedin School of Medicine; Jessie Scott – notable New Zealand doctor, medical officer and prisoner of war. Emily Siedeberg – doctor, hospital superintendent and first female medical graduate in New Zealand
New Zealand has two universities with medical faculties, but five 'schools' of medicine. The University of Auckland teaches medicine in the Auckland and Waikato Clinical Schools, and the University of Otago Medical School (based in Dunedin) teaches medicine in three medical schools: the Dunedin School of Medicine, the University of Otago, Wellington in Wellington, and the University of Otago ...