The Dunedin School of Medicine is the name of the School of Medicine that is based on the Dunedin campus of the

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. All University of Otago medical students who gain entry after the competitive Health Sciences First Year program, or who gain graduate entry, spend their second and third years (ELM; Early Learning in Medicine) studying at the Otago Medical School in Dunedin. In their fourth, fifth, and sixth years (ALM; Advanced Learning in Medicine), students can either study at the Dunedin School of Medicine (Dunedin), the

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, or the

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History

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. From 1924, students could complete their last year of training at hospitals in either

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, or

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, as well as

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. In 1938, branch faculties were established in these other centres. Otago's relationship with Auckland ceased after the opening of the University of Auckland School of Medicine in 1968. The branch faculties in Christchurch and Wellington became 'clinical' schools in 1973 and 1977 respectively; the forerunners to the modern

and

Women graduates

Women did not enter medical training until 1891 when

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became the first female medical student. Between 1896 and 1924 there were 50 women graduates; by 1949 200 women had graduated. Some of the women graduates between 1896 and 1929 were: * 1896:

* 1897:

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* 1900: Constance Frost,

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, Alice Horsley * 1903: Eleanor Baker McLaglan * 1906:

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* 1916: Doris Gordon * 1918: Marion King Bennie Cameron * 1921: Moana Gow, Eva Hill, Sylvia Chapman * 1922:

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* 1923:

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Kathleen Todd Kathleen Mary Gertrude Todd (19 November 1898 – 21 March 1968) was a pioneering New Zealand child psychiatrist. Early life Kathleen Todd was born in 1898 in Heriot, Otago. She was one of the seven children of Charles Todd, an auctioneer and s ...

* 1924: Mary Champtaloup * 1925:

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* 1926: Nina Muir, Theodora Hall *1929:

Kathleen Pih–Chang Kathleen Pih–Chang (1902–1991) (also known as Pih Zhen–Wah and Kathleen Pih) was a Chinese–born New Zealand medical doctor and the first Chinese person to graduate as a doctor from the University of Otago in 1929. Early life Pih-Chang ...

Dunedin School of Medicine

The Dunedin School of Medicine is one of eight faculties and schools within the Division of Health Sciences. The other faculties and schools within the University of Otago Division of Health Sciences are the Otago Medical School (home to the Otago Medical Programme and the Early Learning in Medicine programme); School of Biomedical Sciences; Faculty of Dentistry;

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; School of Physiotherapy; University of Otago, Christchurch; and University of Otago, Wellington.

Departments

The Dunedin School of Medicine is structured into eight academic departments: Bioethics, General Practice and Rural Health, Medicine, Pathology, Preventive and Social Medicine, Psychological Medicine, Surgical Sciences, and Women's and Children's Health. Most of these departments have a number of sub-sections or units. It also comprises and administrative department the Dean's Department.

Buildings

The bulk of the Dunedin Medical School is centred on a group of buildings to the southwest of the main University of Otago Campus, in an area including Dunedin Hospital and bounded by George Street, Hanover Street, Cumberland Street, and Frederick Street. These include the Hercus Building (Department of Pathology), the Adams Building (Department of Preventive and Social Medicine), and the Fraser Building (Department of Psychological Medicine). Other parts of the school are located within Dunedin Hospital, most notably the Colquhoun and Barnett lecture theatres, the Dean's Department, and the Departments of Medicine, Surgical Sciences, and Women's and Children's Health. The Department of General Practice and Rural Health is located at 55 Hanover Street. The Bioethics Centre is housed in 71 Frederick St. Near the heart of the Dunedin School of Medicine, located alongside the Hercus and Adams buildings, are the Scott and Lindo Ferguson Buildings, both listed by

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as Category II and Category I respectively. The Scott Building, built during the First World War by the architectural firm of

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, is now used by the School of Biomedical Sciences. The imposing Lindo Ferguson Building is an

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and brick structure in classical styling built in 1927 to a design by

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, also used by the School of Biomedical Sciences. It was named for Sir Lindo Ferguson, Dean of the Otago Medical School from 1914 to 1937.

References

External links

Otago Medical School

Structure of the University of Otago Division of Health Sciences
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