Election puts brakes on new school of rural medicine plans

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Election puts brakes on new school of rural medicine plans

Liane
Topham-Kindley
Dunedin Medical School
Plans for new medical schools would see a move away from facilities like Otago Medical School’s historic Lindo Fergusson building

The prospect of academics slugging it out over the rights to create a new rural-focused medical school has been somewhat diminished with the arrival of the Labour-led Government but has not gone away completely. Liane Topham-Kindley reports

David Clark’s comments suggested support, instead, for the joint Auckland and Otago universities’ proposal for a national, virtual school of rural hea