There are 10 National, 4 Provincial and 8 Private Medical Colleges in Free China, all of which are registered with the Ministry of Education and are required to provide a course of six years in Medicine according to the standards laid down by the Commission on Medical ducation. (The former designation of Grade A College has now been abandoned as all of the above-mentioned Colleges confèrm to the required standards of the six-year course.)
The four Medical Colleges in which former Hong Kong University students are studying are recognised as among the four best Colleges in China to-day. They are:-
(a) National Changhai Medical College.
(b) National siang Ya (Yale-in-China) Medical College.
(c
Cheeloo University Medical College.
(d) Lintnam University Medical College.
The standards of medical education in these colleges are indicated in the details of their curricula which are attached.
In all colleges examinations are held at the end of each academic year in the subjects of instruction for that year. The final examination is held at the end of the fifth year, and includes pathologyY and all the clinical subiects. In the case of Cheelco University, the first two years are devoted to pre-medical subjects, instead of one year as in the other colleges, and the final examination is therefore held at the end of the sixth year,
The sixth, or final year of the course (seventh year in the case of Cheeloo University) is devoted to an intemeship. This is a year of whole-time clinical training and instruction in the Medical, Surgical, Obstetrical and Gynaecological Wards and the various Soecialties. In the case of Hsiang Ya, Cheeloo and Lingnam Medical Colleges, a clinical thesis is required to be submitted at the end of the Inteme Year.
At the present time all medical graduates are required to render conecripted service for at least one year after qualification. Such service may be in the Chinese Army Medical Corps in the National Health Administration or (in a few instances) as junior assistants in Medical Colleges.
Former Hong Kong University students are following the details of the curricula as full members of the Medical Colleges which they have joined, and a number of them are now undergoing their period of conscription. A list is attached of all the students who completed two years or more of their medical training in Hong Kong University and who are now completing their studies in Free China.
I should like to place on record my considered opinion that the course of medical instruction provided in the four collegee above-mentione! may be regarded as the substantial war-time equivalent of the instruction which would normally have been given in Hong Kong. to make a formal
I should further like recommendation that stens be taken to mrovide for the constitution of a body to which would be temporarily transferred such powers held under Hong Yong legislation by the authorities of the Universi of Hong Kong as are requisite for the conferring of degrees, and that such degrees be conferred only on candidates who spent two years or more at the Hong Kong University prior to the outbreak of war on December 8th, 1941, and have subsequently completed their medical course in Free China,
February 8th 1944.
Gordon Ting, FRCS (Eng.), FRCOG, FICS Former Dean, Faculty of Medicine,
University of Hongkong.