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last Autumn, the whole question was discussed as
to whether there should be a fairly small number
of large colleges or a rather larger number of
If you specialties having their own colleges.
have a small number of colleges, the intention
would be to have either boards or faculties within
colleges for the more specialised areas.
From
what
I understood from the working
party's interim report, they were concerned
about having a proliferation of many
perhaps
rather unviable small institutions and this was
the main factor which weighed with them in their
consideration of exactly how many colleges there
should be.
MR. EDWARD HO: Sir, will the Secretary inform this Council what
are the criteria which need to be fulfilled before
a college can be formed, and in what ways do
paediatrics,
qualify?
orthopaedics and anaesthesiology not
SECRETARY FOR HEALTH AND WELFARE:
I think this is really one of the reasons why I
appointed the working party to advise me precisely
on these points. They are obviously in some
difficulty in deciding exactly what should be the
criteria; whether every significant specialty
should have its own college or whether it would
viable and economic
not be more practical, to have a number of larger
colleges with divisions into boards or faculties.