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The
development
of a
second
medical
school
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However,
United Kingdom (GMC), which is essential.
the Director of Medical and Health Services can
offer employment to non-Commonwealth graduates
whose training and experience is acceptable to him.
9.8
The MDAC having identified the requirement
for additional doctors, the Government subsequently
consulted the University and Polytechnic Grants
Committee (UPCC) on how the requirement could best
be achieved and to give an estimate of comparative
costs.
9.9
The UPGC considered that the choice lay
between the establishment of a new medical school
at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and
expansion of the medical faculty at the University
of Hong Kong (HKU); that there was no likelihood of
getting the extra doctors required from overseas;
and that a medical school independent of either
university or run jointly by both would be adminis-
tratively impracticable. The UPGC noted the advantages
of expanding the medical faculty at HKU. These lic
primarily in the fact that there is already a large
and reputable medical faculty at HKU with the
necessary experience and expertise; there would also
be savings in time and no problem of the recognition
of the degree by the GMC. There would however by
disadvantages. This medical faculty already has an
intake of 150 students and by world standards this
is regarded as large enough; 250 would be definitely
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