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Refresher Courses.
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done so much for the advanced training of medical graduates in Oriental countries. Such scholarships would also be a fitting object of private benevolence.
29. We recommend that one or two vacation courses in medical and surgical subjects should be offered annually and that admission to the courses should be given as widely as possible to medical practitioners in Hong Kong and the surrounding country.
Patho-
30. We endorse the recommendation made by logy and the University (1937) Committee for closer co- Bacterio- operation between the University Department of logy.
Pathology and the Government Institute of Bac- teriology. Only in this way can sufficient teaching material be acquired. We note with satisfaction that negotiations aiming at closer co-operation are now proceeding.
Dentistry.
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31. We recommend that if and when a Govern- ment Dental Officer is appointed, the University should apply for his assistance in order that elementary instruction in the surgery of dentistry may become a part of undergraduate medical
courses.
32. After discussion with Dr. P. S. Selwyn of Public Clarke, Director of Medical Services, we concluded Health. that an Institute of Public Health, not merely as an aid to the bealth services of the Colony, but in relation to China, is a highly desirable develop- ment, provided it can be well staffed and well The University alone has neither the equipped. men nor the resources to undertake responsibility for a really good Institute. Unless the Govern- ment is prepared to take a major share in its foundation it would be better merely to continue undergratuate Public Health teaching as it is now organized. But the value of an Institute to the Colony emboldens us to hope that the help of the Government will be given generously. Help from educational or philanthropic Trusts can only reason- ably be expected after we have shown in practice that the Institute is able to make a serious con- tribution to Public Health teaching and work in China. We therefore propose for the consideration of the Government and the University the outlines of a scheme of an Institute in three divisions :-
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(i) of Hygiene and Epidemiology housed in a major Government Health Centre near the University. The work done therein would except for teaching, be work for which the Government has already assumed responsi- bility. It would be under the control of a Government Officer who would, in addition, be Professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health in the University. As Director of the Institute, he would be in charge of the organization of all Public Health teaching.
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(ii) of Pathological Sciences to be taught in the University, and directed by the University Professor of Pathology. It is an important feature of the scheme that this Division would do all diagnostic work for Victoria It and be, as well, a teaching centre. would, in fact, be organized by the amalga- mation of the University staff in Pathology with such staff as Government could furnish for general diagnostic work for Victoria generally. Parasitology, for which no organized provision 15 at present made in the University, would be a major part of this Division. A trained parasitologist and two Chinese assistants would be required for the work envisaged. The Professor of Pathology would be under the Director only in so far as was necessary for the organization of teaching and research in Public Health subjects.
(iii) of Biochemistry and Nutrition. The appoint- ment of a Lecturer in Biochemistry is recom- mended earlier in this Report (para. 27 above). He would work under the direction of the Professor of Physiology,
33. We are of opinion that such an Institute in Public would strengthen the health services of the Colony Health. and would provide better teaching for medical under- graduates, but that the additional spending would be justified only if it went still further, to make possible the award of a Diploma in Public Health. There is little provision in China for such a post- graduate qualification. We think that in offering a good course of this kind, sufficiently thorough to warrant the award of a Diploma worthy of recogni-