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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.
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]
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 ...
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.
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.
The school also runs the Scottish-Canadian Medical Programme jointly with Edinburgh and the University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry for Canadian students. [ 4 ] At the end of the six-year programme, students will have completed their training as a doctor and graduate with MBChB / MBBS .
The New Zealand Medical Students' Association Incorporated (NZMSA) is the peak representative body for all medical students in New Zealand. The NZMSA executive is composed of representatives that are elected from Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin medical schools. NZMSA represents medical students on many levels, from universities ...