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development at H.K.U. as unsound, and, once the time-table problem was reduced (see paragraphs 19 to 21 above) all members agreed that the only ground for considering it was that it would ostensibly be easier administratively. They found it difficult to envisage circumstances that might make it necessary.
Phasing of the Preferred Method
29. The Sub-committee was also asked to give consideration to whether phasing of the Preferred Method might be possible, should financial limitations make it desirable.
30. Phasing would be possible. CUHK could start with an entry of 50 students instead of 100, and put into its pre-clinical building a full size Anatomy Department (which requires special equipment) but reduced accommodation for the other departments. Shatin Hospital could be built on a lay-out designed for full size, with services planned for that size, but with only half the final provision of beds; from the point of view of the needs of the growing population this might be tolerable for a few years.
31. There would then be for some time a Medical School with an annual entry of 50, which would be small by modern standards but just viable. It would probably be attractive to good staff if the intention to expand to 100 were clearly stated, even though a date for that expansion were not given. Development in two phases will be much more expensive than single development and the capital costs of this first phase are likely to be three-fifths if not two-thirds of the total.
Bridging delays in hospital building programme
32. The possibility of delays in the hospital building programme for the preferred method has been taken into consideration. If time-table slippages were to occur in the construction of the new hospital, bridging arrangements could be made for a few months by undertaking clinical teaching in another hospital or hospitals without the normal development of clinical teaching buildings and without an undue disruption of Medical Department staff. It would be essential, if this were done, that the new hospital should be nearing completion and the date of completion known with some certainty. A delay in these circumstances would be administratively and academically undesirable and ought not to be assumed in planning, but it could be accommodated.
Implementation of the Preferred Method (Medical School)
33. The procedures considered essential to a satisfactory implementation of the Preferred Method are dealt with under the following five heads:
a) Medical Academic Advisory Committee;
(b) inspection of progress for the purpose of ensuring
acceptance of the medical degree by the GMC;
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