Papuan Medical College, Port Moresby PDF Download

Author: Adolf Saweri
Publisher: University of Papua New Guinea Press
ISBN: 9789980945549
Category : Medical colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 61

Get Book Here

Book Description
The Papuan Medical College was the fore-runner of the current School of Health Sciences of the University of Papua New Guinea. Like that School, it included, at various times in its training responsibility, the preparation of nurses, medical assistants, dentists, laboratory technicians and radiographers, as well as doctors. It was the training of the first indigenous doctors, however, that the College was best known, and it is that aspect of its work that is the focus of this narrative. The first Papuans and New Guineans to graduate as doctors entered the first year of their course in 1960, and the final class completed their training in 1970. Fifty years on from its beginnings, surviving staff and students gathered in Port Moresby to recall and celebrate the work of the College. This account seeks to give recognition to those who participated in a pioneering educational enterprise. It also endeavours to place in a broader context the 10 years during which the Papuan Medical College trained doctors. Training of health workers was carried out from early days in the colonial administrations of both Papua and New Guinea, and deserves mention. The Faculty of Medicine within the University of Papua New Guinea has enlarged and extended medical training into multiple specialties and new fields. But it was built on the existing structures of the Papuan Medical College and drew its initial impetus almost entirely from the achievements of the College.