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Physiology:
or the ordinary teaching of medical students this Department seems to have been adequately equipped. The work will be lightened by the transfer of work in Biochemistry to a new bepartment. The importance of nutritional studies has u been borne in on Hong Kong people and they will now realise how much work yet is to be done in this field, Home experience of the war years and after has made it unnecessary to offer an elaborate justification of a propogal to develop these studies in Hong Kong where a traditionare dietary widely different from the British is established, and calls for the investigation of trained workers. The integration of nutritional studies with the work of the Departments of inysiology, biochemistry and Freventive Medicine is a matter of expediency for the Faculty to determine. Lectureship is set down among the posts in the Physiology Department.
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The staff required depends in part on the size of the classes and therefore of the number of groups into which they must be divided for clinical teaching and demonstrations. our estimate of the minimum pequirements of staff are shown in the summary below.
employment of Government Officers and Frivate Practitioners as lecturers:
The lecturers in Orthopaedics, Opthalmology and Diseases of war, Nose and Throat freud be drawn from specialists in iong kong,either among Government medical officers of in ther-among opán private practice. Hitherto the Government has given generous help to the University in allowing it to have the services of its specialiste as University teachers, desirable that this helu should continue. In audition it would become necessary that following the precedent set in the case of a lectureship in Faediatrics when beds were assigned to a specialist in private practice/a graduate of the University, apipinted by the University after consultation with the Director of Redical Services, the University should have freedom to select within the necessarily restricted range of available specialists, with the assurance that beds in the teaching hospital should be made available on the condition that the lecturers' qualifications were accepted also by the Director of Medical Services.
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