A suggestion that Jewish medical organizations and Jewish hospitals start the training of a new generation of Jews in medicine in Germany since Jewish students are almost entirely barred from the German medical schools was made here today by Professor Dr. Seligmann, head of the Health Department of the Berlin Jewish Community.
Dr. Seligmann pointed out that a number of Jewish medical students who could no longer study in the German universities have resumed their studies in foreign universities. They are, however, lost to German Jewry since they will in all probability never return to Germany.
“MUST MAKE ROOM”
“Jewish public opinion,” Dr. Seligmann urged, “and the Jewish medical self-aid organizations must do something toward the training of a new generation of Jewish doctors. The Jewish hospitals and similar institutions will have to make room for them, to enable them to complete their training and obtain appointments.”
Enumerating the difficulties which Jewish medical students encounter at present in pursuing their studies in Germany, Dr. Seligmann pointed out that many institutions, such as those in the city of Berlin which were previously open to Jewish students, are now closed. A few scattered Jewish medical men are admitted to some of the university clinics and denominational institutions, but the great mass of them are crowding the anterooms of the few Jewish hospitals in Germany. The number of openings is naturally very limited. Eight such institutions can find room for only thirty-eight practitioners, Dr. Seligmann concluded.
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