SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1975.
RECOMMENDATIONS ON UNREGISTRADLE DOCTORS
ACCEPTED IN PRINCIPLE
THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE WORKING PARTY ON UNREGISTRADLE DOCTORS WHICH VILL GIVE NON-COMMONWEALTH DOCTORS AN OPPORTUNITY TO DE ABLE TO PRACTISE IN HONG KONG HAVE BEEN APPROVED IN PRINCIPLE BY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.
THE WORKING PARTY WAS APPOINTED IN SEPTEMDER 1974 UNDER THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF SIR RONALD HGLIES. ITS REPORT WAS PRESENTED TO THE GOVERNOR IN APRIL THIS YEAR.
THE MAIN RECOMMENDATION IN THE REPORT IS THAT UNREGISTRABLE DOCTORS WHO FULFIL CERTAIN CONDITIONS AND REQUIREMENTS SHOULD DE ABLE TO ACHIEVE REGISTRATION IN HONG KONG. THE REPORT PROPOSES STANDING ARRANGEMENTS WHICH IT SAYS SHOULD CONTINUE FOR AS LONG AS NECESSARY.
TO BE ELIGIBLE, A CANDIDATE SHOULD HAVE UNDERGONE AT LEAST FIVE YEAR'S FULL-TIME MEDICAL TRAINING- HAVE PERMISSION TO LIVE AND WORK IN HONG KONG AND BE OF GOOD CHARACTER.
THE WORKING PARTY PROPOSED THAT ELIGIBILITY SHOUD DE ESTABLISHED BY A CREDENTIALS SUD-COMMITTEE OF A LICENTIATE COMMITTEE WHICH WOULD BE SET UP BY THE MEDICAL COUNCIL FOR THIS PURPOSE.
ALL ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS WOULD BE ALLOWED TO TAKE AN EXAMINATION WHICH WOULD BE HELD UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE MEDICAL COUNCIL OF HONG KONG.
THOSE WHO PASS THE EXAMINATION WOULD UNDERGO A CLINICAL ATTACHMENT, KNOWN AS EXTERNSHIP, FOR A PERIOD OF NOT LESS THAN 18 MONTHS.
THE WORKING PARTY RECOMMENDED THAT THOSE WHO PASS THE EXAMINATION AND SATISFACTORILY COMPLETE THE EXTERNSHIP SHOULD BE ELIGIBLE TO BECOME LICENTIATES OF THE MEDICAL COUNCIL OF HONG KONG AND TO BE ADMITTED TO REGISTRATION WITH DO CONDITIONS OF RESTRICTIONS APPLIED TO THEIR PRACTISING IN HONG KONG.
THE PROPOSED EXAMINATION WOULD BE IN THREE PARTS BASED, AS FAR AS POSSIBLE, ON A SIMILAR NEU EXAMINATION FOR OVERSEAS DOCTORS WHICH HAS BEEN INTRODUCED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, THESE ARE A MULTIPLE CHOICE WRITTEN PAPER DESIGNED TO TEST PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE- A SIMPLE TEST OF WRITTEN ENGLISH FOR PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES AND AN ORAL EXAMINATION TO TEST THE APPLICATION OF PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE TO CLINICAL PROBLEMS. THE FIRST AND LAST SECTIONS COULD BE TAKEN IN EITHER ENGLISH OR CHINESE.
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