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Medicine and Tropical Medicine:
In this Department h valuable help might be enlisted if the University were entirely free to make use of the skill of selected private ractitioners.
Gynaecology and Lidwifery
Good hospital facilities exist and the work done in the past justifies hope for the development of good post-graduate courses.
Pharmacology. Medical Jurisprudence und auiology.
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There was difference in the Committee about the place of Fharmacology in dedical course in long Long. scientific study of the subject (manifestly would place it among the ajor subjects of the curriculum; it would be the matter of a Department with its own irofessor. This status is not universally conceded in british Universities Dot ie inere convincing evidence of its importance in the carriculum that this organisation-would suggest.
Hitherto the the teaching has been done by part-time lecturers - members of 1 the Colonial Medical Organisation. Medical Jurisprudence
and hadiology also were taught by the Government Medical Officers who held specialist appointments.
Treventive Medicinʼand Fublic Health.
The importance of this De artment of Medical Education in the conditions of Hong Kong can not be overstressed. In order to achieve a close integration of teaching and practice it was agreed that the Deputy Director of the Medical Services of the Hong Kong Government should hold also the irofessorship in the University. The arrangement had not worked long enough before the a. to justify a judgment of its success or failure. museum of Hygiene was in process of developing when ar supervened. post-graduate course held in 1941 attended by about forty medical men, mainly fro: China and the Forces convinced the University Council that it would be justified in making provision for refresher courses in a wide range of medical subjects, and iygiene. If this latter development were achieved it might be necessary for the Professorship to become a full-time appointment.
Fathology
The University Department does the Pathological work of the Government Hospitals on the Island of Hong Kong as well
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