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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1975
MOVES TO IMPLEMENT RECOMMENDATIONS ON UNREGISTRABLE DOCTORS
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A NUMBER OF STEPS HAVE BEEN TAKEN TO IMPLEMENT THE
RECOMMENDATIONS CONTAINED IN THE REPORT OF THE WORKING PARTY ON UBREGISTRADLE DOCTORS IN MOVES TO GET THE SCHEME OFF THE GROUND AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.
THE MEDICAL COUNCIL. HAS NAMED SIR ALBERT RODRIGUES TO BE THE CHAIRMAN OF THE LICENTIATE COMMITTEE OF THE COUNCIL AND CONSULTATIONS WITH THE BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, THE HONG KONG NICAL ASSOCIATION AND THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG ARE TAKING PLACE ON THE APPOINTMENT OF THE REMAINING MEMBERS OF THE LICENTIATE COMMITTEE.
THE MAIN FUNCTIONS OF THE COMMITTEE WILL BE TO DETERMINE THE ELIGIBILITY OF CANDIDATES AND TO DE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THE ARRANGEMENTS RELATED TO THE GRANT OF THE LICENCE PROPOSED IN THE REPORT. IT WILL BE ASSISTED IN THIS BY SUB-COMMITTEES INCLUDING A CREDENTIALS SUD-COMMITTEE, AND MEMBERSHIP OF THESE BODIES WILL NOT BE CONFINED TO MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL.
THE MEDICAL COUNCIL HAS INVITED PROFESSOR ARTHUR YAU, HEAD OF THE ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, TO BE CHAIRMAN OF THE EXAMINATIONS SUB-COMMITTEE, PROFESSOR CECIL LEWIS, DIRECTOR OF POST-GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, TO BE CHAIRMAN OF THE EXTERNSHIP SUB-COMMITTEE, AND MR. JOHN SWAINE, Q.C., TO BE CHAIRMAN OF THE REVIEW SUB-COMMITTEE. MR. IAN YOUNG HAS BEEN APPOINTED SECRETARY OF THE LICENTIATE COMMITTEE.
STAFFING PROPOSALS HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED TO THE SECRETARIAT AND IT IS HOPED THAT APPLICATIONS WILL SOON BE INVITED FOR THE POST OF ADMINISTRATOR (LICENTIATE).
THE ADMINISTRATOR WILL CARRY OVERALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE GENERAL RUNNING OF THE LICENTIATE ARRANGEMENTS AND WILL BE CHAIRMAN OF THE CREDENTIALS SUB-COMMITTEE.
IN THE MEANTIME, THE WORKING PARTY'S REPORT WHICH WAS PUBLISHED AT THE END OF AUGUST IS NOW ON SALE IN BOTH ENGLISH AND CHINESE AND CAN BE BOUGHT FROM THE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS CENTRE AT $10 A COPY.
THE REPORT PROPOSES THAT UNREGISTRABLE DOCTORS WHO WISH TO BE ALLOWED TO PRACTISE IN HONG KONG HOULD ELIGIBLE TO TAKE A THREE-PART EXAMINATION AND SERVE A PERIOD OF 18 MONTHS EXTERNSHIP DURING WHICH THEY WOULD RECEIVE REFRESHER TRAINING AND THEIR CLINICAL EXPERTISE WOULD BE ASSESSED.
THOSE WHO SUCCESSFULLY PASS THE FXAMINATION AND SATISFACTORILY COMPLETE THE EXTERNSHIP WILL BE ELIGI. E TO LECOME LICENTIATES OF THE MEDICAL COUNCIL OF HONG KONG AL, AS SU, TO PRACTISE IN HONG KONG SUBJECT TO THE SAME CONDITIONS AS LEGISTERED MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS.
THE REPORT
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