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school. Nor could students from the Chinese middle school stream
be admitted because they do not meet the requirement for the
advanced level examination of the University.
9.10
The UPGC recognised that the alternative of establishing
a medical school at CUHK would be formidable. On the other hand,
the UPGC considered that considerable advantage would be derived
from the existence of two medical schools in Hong Kong of
comparable size, and that each would be large enough to be
efficient and to stimulate and complement each other. It noted
too that a hospital was proposed for Sha Tin, which could be
designed as a teaching hospital from the outset, by adapting the
plans for the Princess Margaret Hospital, which the UPGC considered
could be achieved without fundamental re-drawing.
9.11
On the balance of the factors taken into consideration,
the UPGC advised and the Government accepts that the new medical
school should be sited at CUHK A suitable site for the pre-clinical
building is available within the CUHK campus next to the existing
science centre.
9.12
The UPGC advised that, subject to the availability of architectural staff and a site for the teaching hospital by late 1976
or early 1977, three years for building and one for commissioning
would enable the hospital to receive clinical students in 1980 or
1981 and these would graduate three years later. It may not prove
possible to observe this timetable but, in view of the undoubted
need for additional doctors, action will be put in hand as soon as
circumstances permit to develop the second medical school at
CUHK and the teaching hospital at Sha Tin.
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