It is time for ``radical reform'' of medical education in New Zealand, Waikato District Health Board chief executive Dr Nigel Murray says. He said a third medical school would fix the ``rural crisis in healthcare'' by training doctors to work in those areas. Dr Murray is an Otago Medical School graduate and former chief executive of the defunct Southland District Health Board. The Waikato DHB has made a joint bid with Waikato University to set up New Zealand's third medical school. Tertiary Education Minister Paul Goldsmith said this week he was assessing both bids - Waikato's request for a medical school, and Otago/Auckland's bid for a School of Rural Health.

Source: Otago Daily Times April 21, 2017 18:03 UTC