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of medical training in China, and as there is no possibility of further qualifying examinations being held locally significant new additions to the register of local doctors cannot be expected from this source. He is however able to offer employment to non-Common- wealth graduates whose training and experience is acceptable to him.
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In addition there will be further requirements for training for para-medical personnel (radiographers, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, pharmacists and medical laboratory technicians, amongst others). These requirements will be. reviewed by the MDAC. The Medical and Health Department will also review the need for training facilities for psychiatric nurses.
The Medical and Dental Schools
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The advice of the UPGC was sought on the training of additional doctors and a new dental school. The UPGC set up a special medical sub-committee to study this question ( a copy of their report is at Annex D).
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They advised that a second medical school should be established at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and a dental school at the University of Hong Kong (KHU). The UPGC considered the possibility of expanding the medical faculty at HKU, but since its intake is already 150 students, concluded that an increase of a further 100 medical students in addition to dental students would result in an over-large medical faculty with dispersed clinic teaching.
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Whilst the UPGC recognised the difficulties of establishing a new faculty at CUHK, they emphasised the advantage to be derived from two medical schools in Hong Kong of comparable size and advised that the plans of the Princess Margaret Hospital could be adapted to provide a teaching hospital at Sha Tin within an appropriate time span. They further recommended the appointment of a Medical Academic Advisory Committee to oversee the implementation of these proposals and specified certain conditions which they considered should apply to the grant of funds necessary to establish the new school.
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The UPGC also advised that the new school of
dentistry should be sited at HKU and that the pre-clinical part of the dental school would be a small and manageable addition to the existing pre-clinical undertaking at the University.
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