--- title: Learning to be Doctors in Fiji url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-learning-to-be-doctors-in-fiji-1939/ description: A painted classroom scene shows a British doctor teaching Fijian and other Pacific-island medical students at the Central Medical School, Suva. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Learning to be Doctors in Fiji **Content note:** British colonial-office publicity image showing a colonial-era teaching hierarchy in Fiji, reproduced as published. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) [![Learning to be Doctors in Fiji, 1939 UK poster: A painted classroom scene shows a British doctor teaching Fijian and other](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-learning-to-be-doctors-in-fiji-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-learning-to-be-doctors-in-fiji-1939.jpg) # Learning to be Doctors in Fiji A painted classroom scene shows a British doctor teaching Fijian and other Pacific-island medical students at the Central Medical School, Suva, with a caption that colonial rule is improving health. Card-stacking: the text presents only the training scheme and its benefits and says nothing of other aspects of colonial administration. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` Distributed by BRITISH INFORMATION SERVICES, an Agency of the British Government, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City. LEARNING TO BE DOCTORS IN FIJI Throughout the British Colonial Empire much is being done to improve and maintain the health of the people. This important work is carried on not only by Europeans but also by local men and women who are trained to become doctors or nurses. Here are medical students at work under the supervision of a British doctor in the Central Medical School at Suva, capital of the Colony of Fiji. They are not all Fijians; some come from other and far-distant Pacific islands. They will go home to heal the sick, to prevent the spread of diseases, and to raise the standard of health among their peoples. G.P.D./491/13 PRINTED IN ENGLAND BY ALF COOKE LTD., LEEDS & LONDON. 51-9035 NUNNEY ``` [← Lake Transport in Africa](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-lake-transport-in-africa-1939/) ['lend a hand on the land' →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-lend-a-hand-on-the-land-1939/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.