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13. A second point is that students from the Chinese Middle Schools, so long as they lack upper sixth forms, would not be eligible for entry to the Medical School at H.K.U. A third is that the student mix at H.K.U. would become unbalanced, by the presence of abcut 30 per cent of medicals and dentals in the whole student body, while CUHK would continue to be unbalanced in the opposite way with a great preponderance of arts and social science courses.
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
14. If expansion of the Hong Kong University Medical School is held to be undesirable, then a new School should be started. то start an independent new school in isolation from both Universities would be a reversion to nineteenth century practice and directly contrary to modern opinion (the United Kingdom took special steps after the war to bring their one or two remaining independent schools into the area of university responsibility). The new school should therefore be at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
15. To organise medical teaching there quickly would be a formidable task, but the difficulties are immediate and essentially surmountable, whereas the disadvantages of greatly enlarging the H.K.U. school would be permanent. The Chinese University has no experience or expertise in either pre-clinical or clinical teaching, and in particular it has no experience of the close and complex relationships that must develop between a medical teaching
organisation and the teaching hospital or hospitals with which it is intimately joined. The collegiate structure of the Chinese University does not readily lend itself to the in-grafting of a medical school and the present regulations governing admission of students are not entirely appropriate to medicals. The combined university and hospital building programme which is involved is large, and the Chinese University will probably take a year or two longer to produce its first medical graduates than would H.K.U. These are the main difficulties, but, by measures explained in paragraphs 33 to 45 below, they can be overcome.
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At the same time there are important advantages on the side of CUHK. With a new medical school there, there would be two such schools in Hong Kong, of comparable size, each large enough to be efficient, and each able to stimulate and complement the other. Further expansion of medical training if required would be straight-forward. The new school and its new teaching hospital (in Shatin) would develop together; there would be no need to alter the buildings, bend the methods of operation or displace the staff of a pre-existing Government Hospital in order to convert it into a teaching hospital. There would be opportunity for a new approach to clinical teaching, and a new involvement of the medical school in the problems of improving the medical services of a hospital region.
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