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Medical Faculty.
No one can teach a subject without
keeping in touch (more so than the busy practitioner)
with the latest knowledge on his subject. And we have
evidence that there is even a certain amount of something
like research, which is all to the good. We would
however give our opinion that there are not enough funds
at present for research in its full modern sense, which
of course involves training of a very special kind and
comparative freedom from teaching duties. If some
benefactor will endow such an activity there is an ample
field, but we do not think that the University as at
present constituted should expand in this direction.
46. The cost of the Medical Faculty for the month
of January 1937, taking the same basis of calculation
as in the case of Engineering, was just over $16,000.
The total number of students in the same month was 129.
47. We have given much consideration to the question
of the relationship between the three clinical Professors
and the Government Medical Service. The present
situation is in the nature of a compromise resulting from
discussions over a long period of years. The University
has sought in this, as in other matters, to retain
inviolate its independence of the Government. On the
other hand the teaching of the students must necessarily
be given in the wards of a hospital which is under
Government control.
48. This anomaly has in the past led to some
friction and the compromise of giving the clinical
Professors a certain number of wards and making them
theoretically Goverment servants by Gazette notice and
paysheet adjustment has accentuated the anomaly and is
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