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THE Minister of Health, replying in the House of Commons to a question by Prof. A. V. Hill, said that he was aware that an offer had been received from the Rockefeller Foundation in New York to undertake and provide for the clinical training and maintenance of selected British medical students in medical schools in the United States of America and in Canada. A committee to select students has been set up in Great Britain under the chairmanship of the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester, Prof. J. S. B. Stopford, and consisting of Prof. H. R. Dean (vice-chairman); Prof. H. W. B. Cairns, Mr. H. L. Eason, Prof. G. E. Gask, Mr. G. F. Gibberd, Dr. A. M. H. Gray, Prof. A. V. Hill, Surgeon Rear Admiral J. W. McNee, Sir Walter Moberly, Sir Franklin Sibly and Mr. W. B. Brander, of the Universities Bureau of the British Empire, c/o University College, Gower Street, London, W.C.I (secretary). The first group of students will leave for America as soon as possible.
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British Medical Students in the United States. Nature 147, 322 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147322c0
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