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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.
The school is now based at the Garscube Estate in Bearsden, [5] on the outskirts of Glasgow, purchased by the university in 1948 from Sir George Campbell of Succoth.Sir George was a descendant of Ilay Campbell, Lord Succoth, who had studied Law at the university and later served as Lord President of the Court of Session and rector of the university.
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.
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
In 2022, construction started on a new campus on Oxford Terrace/Tuam Street in the city centre. It is expected to be a medical school and construction is scheduled to be complete in April 2026. It is a six-storey building that will hold four floors of clinical research facilities, laboratories and teaching facilities.
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 .
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 ...