Kong Examination Board of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health.
445. Only ten students are selected for each course so that tuition and constant assessment of the individual is possible.
RADIOGRAPHERS
446. The training for radiographers at the Queen Mary Hospital in both radiodiagnosis and radiotherapy is recognized by the Society of Radiographers in the United Kingdom. Examinations for both Parts I and II of the Membership of the Society have been held annually in the Colony for a number of years.
LABORATORY TECHNICIANS
447. The Government Institute of Pathology is recognized by the Institute of Medical Laboratory Technology in the United Kingdom as a teaching laboratory from which entrance can be gained directly to the Intermediate examination of the Institute. At present, students have to go to the United Kingdom to sit this examination and they sub- sequently undergo a further period of instruction there to qualify for entrance to the Associateship examinations.
448. In addition there is an in-service course of training for Medical Laboratory Technicians which follows closely the curriculum of the Institute of Medical Laboratory Technology and which leads to a departmental examination,
OTHER FORMS OF DEPARTMENT TRAINING
449. Courses of training are held for Assistant Physiotherapists, Dispensers and Tuberculosis Visitors, which do not lead to a recognized qualification, but which prepare those concerned for admission to permanent posts on the establishment after they have passed a depart- ment examination. In addition probationer almoners, who already hold a university degree and a recognized qualification in social science. receive a series of lectures on the local aspects of medico-social work. 450. The following table sets out the various categories of training undertaken departmentally during the year:
102
Probationer Assistan
Physiotherapist
Probationer Radiographic
Assistant
Student Dispenser
Saudcal Laboratory Assistant Student Medical Laboratory
Technician
TABLE 41
Appolopmen
Resignation
Strength
Nr 31.3,60
Pusted
E
1
6
11
36
།
$
14
38
21
Probationer Assistant Almoner
*
B
Student Nurse
35
301
Student Mule Nurse
14
fi
44
Student Nurse (Psychiatric)
Student Male Nurse
(Psychiatric)
Student Midwives
Student Midwives (Registered
Nurses)
Student Health Visitor Tuberculosis Visitor
Lab Part I.
06) Final Par.
사업
49 10
44
Job
2 1
Te are* |
一
48
38
143
(c) All training in United Kindom (The number Includes 1 Auxiliary Tolined Nurse}, (4) 12 Draining in Woilled Kingdom-including 2 Rexistered Male Nurses Hong Kone.
ATTENDANCE AT CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS INCLUDING THOSE
SPONSORED BY THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
451. The following table sets out the attendances by officers al Meetings and Conferences during 1959/60.
Appoùmmens
Chief Port Health Officer
Senior Medical Officer Health Sister
Senior Medical Officer
Senior Medical Officer Senior Sister Tutor
TABLE 43
Conferences ric, omended *W.H.O. Seminar on Veterinary
Public Health 'Annual Congress of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Rqalth
Place
Tokyo
Harrogate. York. shire London
Second International Hospital
Equipment and Medical Services Exhibition
International Hospital Congress The Course of Instruction in use of Audio & Visual Alds at the Over- seas Visual Aicks Centre
Medical Officer
Ꮀ Ꮀ
9th International Congress of
Paediatrics
103
Edinburgh London
Montreal, Canada