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Visiting Professorships (for periods of 3 to 6 months) would bring eminent men to the East for short visits. Rapid post-war aerial transport would make such arrange- ments very easy of execution, and the idea would probably appeal to men of high standing in the profession. Such visits would be of great teaching value, would stimulate the development of special lines of work in Hong Kong and would add greatly to the prestige of the College in the Far East. The Rockefeller Foundation accomplished much by arranging such visits to the Peking Union Medical College. Exchange Professor-ship arrangements with Colleges in Great Britain and elsewhere, including China itself, would also be beneficial to both sides. From my association during the last two years with Chinese medical educators I have every reason to believe that they would wolcone such exchange arrangements between their own and our teachers.
(a) Research Jork. Many profitable fields for research exist
in Hong Kong. In the past too little time was devoted to research partly on account of the lack of proper facilities, but largely becauzo toachers were too over. worked with their routine duties. The carrying out of Important research projecta iu both clinical and pre- cli.ical fields shorld be one of the major aims of the reconstituted Medical College.
(e) The erection of New Buildings, or the adaptation of old ones, and the provision of absolutely modern equipment for the teaching of Physics, Chemistry, Biology, A.atomy, Physiology Pharmacology, Pathology and Bacteriology would rank as one of the main nenās, Adequate provision for Physics, Chemistry and Biology had already been made in the splendid new Northcote Science Block, which had been in use for only a few months at the outbreak of the war. Unfortunately this building, with its equipment was in great part destroyed during the fighting. The entire equipment of the Physiological, Pathological and Bacteriological Laboratories, including large numbers of microscopes and other teaching apparatus, microtenes, photographic apparatus, valuable chemicals and stains, etc., were removed in toto by the Japanese.
(f) The Hospitals and Gut-Patient Clinics in Hong Kong provided a wealth of clinical material far greater and more varied than that scen anywhere else in China, with the possible
The clinical facilities exception of Shanghai and Peking.
in Hong Kong were provided by the Government Medical Department, through whose courtesy the Clinical Departments of the University wer. given every opportunity for the
The ueen llaw teaching and practice of their subjects. Hospital, one of the finest hospitals in the Far East, was partly given over for use by the University as its main
teaching hospital. The hospital was only opened in 1937, and was equipped for every form 'of modern treatment, including radium and deep X-Ray therapy. With certain modifications it would make an ideal University Hospital. The modifications would include the provision of:
(1) A Record Room for the filing of clinical histories,
under the whole trims care of a trained custodian. Better Clinical Laboratory Facilities, en.
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all forms of laboratory investigations of blood, urine, spinal fluid, etc., to be carried out où the spot.
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