on which the Professorial staff of the University Medical Faculty sit with senior officers and specialists of the Medical Department.
Nursing Training.
151. An important part of the work of the Medical Depart- ment is the training of nurses (male and female) and midwives. The major nursing training schools are attached to the Queen Mary Hospital and the Kowloon Hospital while the main school for training midwives is the Tsan Yuk Hospital. Excellent schools of nursing are also provided at the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals and the Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital, institutions independently run but largely assisted by Government, and the Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital, a private institution. Owing to the gradual increase in the nursing establishment over the past few years, particularly as a result of recruitment with a view to training staff for the projected new Kowloon Hospital, a greater number of nurses are graduating each year.
Health Visitors.
152. During 1955 the first officially recognized course of training qualifying for the Health Visitors' Certificate of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health was successfully conducted and concluded. The 9 candidates passed the examination. The successful candidates have now been posted to supervisory posts in the Health Nursing Service and the second course has begun and is being attended by 10 specially selected candidates. The school is conducted at the Harcourt Health Centre but for practical experience candidates are attached for limited periods to all of the health services operated by the department. The lectures are given not only by members of the Medical Department, but also by officers of the Colonial Secretariat, the Social Welfare Office, the Legal Department and the Labour Department and visits of inspection are paid to numerous institutions and factories to study welfare work.
Technical Training.
153. In addition to training nurses, the Medical Department also trains technical assistants in pharmacy, radiography, laboratory techniques, physiotherapy and in medico-social work.
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Sai Kung Clinic and Maternity Home.
Maurine Grautham fealth Centre, Tautá Wan.
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