Faculty who, himself, escaped to China in
the Spring of 1942, then raised with the
General Medical Council the question of
whether they would be prepared to recognise the qualifications obtained by these the studies of these students who had been
forced to continue their training-outoide
Hong Kong. He stated that the SchoolS---
which they were attendin all ranked as Grade A
Universities under the Chinese Ministry of
On his assurance that
Education and that he considered the medical
was
eduation which they were receiving equivalent
to the training which they would have received
in Hong Kong, On this assurance the General Medical Council agreed that they would recognise Hong Kong degrees conferred on candidates who have
obtained push qualifications provided they had spent at least two years at Hong Kong
University prior to the Japanese occupation an
subsequently undergone courses of study and examinations in free China comparable with the courses and examinations which they would
normally have taken in Hong Kong?
The purpose of the proposed Order in Council is, therefore, to set up an Emergency Committee in this country, empowered to confer Hong Kong medical degrees on candidates at prosentin free
China whom Dr. Gordon King has certified as having fulfilled the two conditions referred to.
above.
Since this arrangement was agreed with the
General Medical Council it has been discovered
that due to a technicality the holders of such emergency degrees will not, after all, for the time being be eligible for inclusion in the medical register of the General Medical Council.
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