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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.
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 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.
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]
The Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine was launched in 2006 as an intercollegiate faculty of the RCSEd and Royal College of Physicians to develop and promote the medical specialty of Sport and Exercise Medicine. It later became an independent faculty, with its administration based in the RCSEd.The specialty is concerned with the diagnosis ...
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 1990 a Dental Faculty was established to recognise the increasing role of Dental Fellows in the College. As a result, the Convenor of Dental Council was elevated to that of Dean. [13] Role of the Dental Faculty. The Faculty of Dental Surgery is the professional group within the college with responsibility for dental surgeons.
The Edinburgh Model was a model of medical teaching developed by the University of Edinburgh in the 18th century and widely emulated around the world including at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and the McGill University Faculty of Medicine. It was a two-tiered education model, revolutionary and well suited to the ...