Royal North Shore Hospital Becomes a Clinical School of the Faculty in 1947
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Following WWII there was a need to increase the number of trained doctors and subsequently, consideration was being given by the Faculty to the establishment of further clinical schools. The Chairman of Royal North Shore, Sir Norman Nock, felt strongly that the Hospital was in an ideal position to become a new clinical school and worked with W Wilson Ingram, a Macquarie Street physician, to ensure they were prepared for such a development.
In October 1946 the Senate invited the Board to agree to the hospital being recognised as a Clinical School for the instruction of medical undergraduates. This was accepted on the grounds that the Chief Executive Officer was a medical graduate and Wallace Freeborn, a University of Sydney graduate, took up the position. Having completed postgraduate training in London hospitals, Freeborn set about organising Royal North Shore along the same lines and introduced postgraduate training and the registrar system of staffing. The Royal North Shore Hospital became one of our teaching hospitals in 1947 and was officially inaugurated in March 1948 by Chancellor Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn.
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