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practical assistance for the very important but unde veloped fishing industry. It is likely to play no small part in replacing the Japanese by a Chinese deep-sea trawling industry in these waters. The scheme of the Research Institute makes provision for fellowships which it is hoped hereafter to increase in numbers, and for vacation courses for Chinese scientific workers.
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Hitherto Biochemistry has been a minor subject in the Department of Physiology and has been no more than an ancillary subject in medical studies. Modern developments in the science demand that a separate Department for this subject should be provided in any univcrsity that possesses a Faculty of Medicine. 49
48 The stafff of the Faculty should, include:
Physics. Chemistry.
Zoology &
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Biochemistry.
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FACULTY OF MEDICINE
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The College of Medicine existed, as a chartered institution, prior to the establishment of the University. It has established a high reputation, ant rising standards of education have been maintained throughout its history. Its graduates
are in general and specialist practice in Hong Kong, China, Malaya and the Dutch East Indies. Its qualification is recognised by the General Medical Council as entitling to registration in Great Britain.
513 In the past the curriculum has conforme very largely to 57590
that found in medical schools in the British Isles. With the increase emphasis Incod in r、cent times on prevention of disease, the Commit feel that some malification should be
Medic made in the curriculum of the Hong Kɔn Schɔɔl tejust its teaching in this pegret the better t Test the pressing medical nes do in the Pep St. The Medical Sens in the past has had, for the pre-medical and pre-clinical-R0/ whole-time professors and lecturers, but in the three clinical yeare, it has been a recognised practice for the professors and lecturers in clinical subjects
to act as government consultants. The Professor of Pathology, also, has had duties in connection with the Queen Mary (Government) Hospital, which is the chief tenching hospital for University stuents. In order to achieve a close integration of teaching and practice in public health, it was arranged shortly before the war for the Deputy Director of the Medical Services of the Hong Kong Government to be ex-officio the Professor of Public Health in the University. The G-mmittee recommend the continuance of the arrangement for the clinical and pathological posts, but the teaching of Preventive medicine has now become so important a part of the medical curriculum, embracing as it as teaching in social medicine and public health, that the Gmmitte rec.mmen the
rec_mments SUDENSEVDİSA of the opsvi us PRA SMAt by the formation of a
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