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50. It is understood that requirements for registration by the General Dental Council would be similar to those for the GMC.
Implementation of the alternative method
51. This envisages H.K.U. extending its pre-clinical facilities to take an extra 100 medical students and an extra 60 dental students: establishing a second clinical school in Kowloon on the basis of Queen Elizabeth Hospital: extending its clinical teaching to Princess Margaret Hospital: and establishing clinical dental teaching at a dental clinic.
52. This programme would impose few administrative or control problems as regards setting it up even though it would pose serious administration and control problems thereafter. On the medical side the University is fully capable of tackling the pre- clinical and clinical expansion and its costings are reasonably reliable. It has no experience on the dental side but existing medical experience and expertise should help and administration in the University is strong enough to deal with its problems.
53. On the medical side an "indicated" (but not an earmarked) grant, similar to the one used for the last medical expansion, would be needed. No Medical Academic Advisory Committee would be needed nor an Admissions Committee, nor would there be any question of GMC supervision, because graduates of the Medical School are already registrable.
Costings capital
54. When comparing the capital costs of the preferred method and the alternative method all items except two will be the same whichever course is taken, assuming that within the reasonably foreseeable future a hospital will have to be built at Shatin. The two variables are the University capital costs of pre-clinical and clinical facilities. The latter comprise the accommodation required in a teaching hospital for teaching and research purposes, additional to the normal hospital provision for the care of patients.
55. There may in theory be by the alternative method some saving on pre-clinical costs. The present student intake into the H.K.U. pre-clinical area is 150 p.a. and it may be that this could be raised as high as 200. Putting the full medical expansion at H.K.U. however entails putting the dental school there also and this would mean a total pre-clinical intake of between 310 and 330 i.e. the pre-clinical facilities would have to be nearly doubled. This would cost at least as much as building pre-clinical facilities for 100 students at CUHK and would probably cost more. In fact H.K.U. has estimated its pre-clinical requirements at about $14m. (as against the UPGC rough estimate of $12m. at CJHK).
Basically the pre-clinical capital costs are of the same order.
56. Clinical capital costs for the alternative will certainly be higher. This is primarily because additions at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital are physically more difficult. The ground is
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