July 21, 1939]
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
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on an adequate scale. A study of the present facilities with a view to rearrangement should be undertaken.
39. Teaching in Gynaecology is provided at the new Queen Mary Hospital, where twenty-one beds are allotted and organised as a University teaching unit. The beds are filled by cases selected from among patients attending the Gynaecological Out-patient Clinic, held twice weekly at the old Civil Hospital. The unit is provided with an excellent and well-equipped operating suite set apart for the use of the University Gynaecological Department. The operating theatres are air-conditioned. Students are on duty in the wards on a definite schedule which does not clash with other duties. Two mornings a week are set aside for operations. On other days the Professor gives systematic clinical instruction on newly admitted cases, or holds ward rounds or special teaching clinics. The courses of instruction in Mid- wifery, Infant Welfare, and Diseases of Women are excellently carried out.
40. The Report, as set out above, omits many questions of interest in the position of medical education which came under discussion during my visit. The purpose has been to indicate in outline the provision made for medical education and the conditions under which it is given. The University has ex- perienced and surmounted extreme difficulties throughout the five-year period since my visit in December, 1933, owing to the inadequacy of the endowments and insufficient financial resources. The position to-day is, however, vastly different from that of five years ago. Though the University has still many needs, the organisation of, and provision made for, medical education throughout the five years of the medical curriculum has been raised to a higher and more satisfactory level, and the conditions of clinical study since the opening of the Queen Mary Hospital are, as stated above, unexcelled in any other teaching institution I have visited.
41. Before leaving Hong Kong I was invited to address a meeting of the Court of the University on the position of medical education as observed during my visit. The Chancellor of the
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