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view will be called for.
40.
We need not dwell upon the fine traditions of
the old Hong Kong Medical College in the days before it
became merged in the infant University. But we maintain
that the present general standard of medical knowledge and practice in the Colony is today a very high one; and that this is very largely due to the presence in our midst of the Medical Faculty of the University. It is
not only that in the three clinical Professors the Colony
possesses consultants of a very high order; what private
practitioners and Goverment doctors would alike admit is
that the University provides a stimulus and an atmosphere which could ill be spared.
11. Medical graduates of the University are
registrable under the General Medical Council and we
consider that the periodical scrutiny carried out by
representatives of that Council must be of great value
to the Faculty, and that the prestige of such a
recognition is not to be despised. In such circum-
stances we will not be expected to say anything about
the course of instruction, except to record the fact
that it seems to be universally agreed that, clinically
speaking, the doctors turned out by the University may
be considered to be thoroughly well trained.
42. We have carefully considered the question of
what becomes of all those highly trained doctors. From
all sides we have been told that private practice in the
Colony is reaching saturation point and it has even
been suggested to us that further local registration of
Hong Kong graduates (except for the few required by the
University itself or by the Government) might well be
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