SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1990
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NEED FOR LOCAL SPECIALIST MEDICAL TRAINING PROGRAMMES
LOCALLY-BASED
THERE IS AN URGENT NEED TO ESTABLISH FORMALISED,
MEDICAL EDUCATION PROGRAMMES IN HONG POST-GRADUATE AND CONTINUING
SPECIALIST TRAINING MORE EASILY AND
ACQUIRE KONG TO HELP DOCTORS WITHOUT HAVING TO GO OVERSEAS.
THE SECRETARY FOR HEALTH AND WELFARE, MRS ELIZABETH WONG,
HONG KONG COLLEGE OF THIS AT THE ANNUAL DINNER OF THE SURGEONS THIS (SATURDAY) EVENING.
SAID
ORTHOPAEDIC
THAT
THE
WAS IN RESPONSE SHE NOTED THAT IT
то SUCH NEED GOVERNMENT HAD DECIDED TO ESTABLISH A HONG KONG ACADEMY OF MEDICINE.
FOLLOWED
STATUTORY BODY ALSO
OF MEDICAL SCIENCE AND NECESSARY TO ENSURE PROVIDE ACCEPTABLE
THE DECISION TO ESTABLISH THIS THE RECOGNITION THAT WITH THE RAPID ADVANCE TECHNOLOGY, FURTHER EDUCATION AND TRAINING WERE THE COMPETENCY OF DOCTORS AFTER GRADUATION AND TO STANDARDS OF CARE IN MEDICAL SPECIALISATIONS.
OF
HAVE RELYING ROYAL
то DESIRABLE INSTEAD OF OVERSEAS BODIES SUCH AS THE
"FOLLOWING ON FROM THIS, 1T IS ALSO AS LOCALLY-DEFINED STANDARDS
SPECIALISATION, ENTIRELY ON STANDARDS COLLEGE OF EDINBURGH AND AUSTRALASIA.
BY SET
A
KONG, WE ARE WELL "WITH OUR MANY YEARS OF EXPERTISE IN HONG
то AND POISED TO ENHANCE HONG KONG'S REPUTATION INTERNATIONALLY
OF ESTABLISH
THE RIGHTFUL NICHE IN SPECIALISATION,' MRS WONG SAID.
INTERNATIONAL
ARENA
TO SET STANDARDS, THE PRINCIPAL ROLE OF THE ACADEMY WOULD BE
AND
AND EXAMINATIONS,
ACCREDIT THOSE ORGANISE EDUCATION, TRAINING DOCTORS WHO HAD SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED THE REQUIRED COURSE OF STUDIES.
"THE ACADEMY
WILL BE
SPECIALTY BOARDS, WITH WHOM THE AND EXAMINATION WILL LIE.
MADE
UP
AND COLLEGES, OF
FACULTIES ACTUAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR TRAINING
BUT + "THERE WILL INITIALLY BE SEVEN COLLEGES AND SIX FACULTIES
AND GROW, MRS WONG THESE WILL INCREASE AS NEW SPECIALTIES DEVELOP POINTED OUT.
+
A
PREPARATORY
UNDERTAKE THE
NECESSARY
THE ACADEMY AND TO ADVISE ON THE LEGISLATION REQUIRED TO THE ACADEMY'S OPERATIONS.
COMMITTEE
PLANNING
WOULD SHORTLY
WORK FOR
BE
APPOINTED
OF FORMATION
GIVE EFFECT
ΤΟ THE
ΤΟ
MRS WONG SAID THE COLLEGE
BE
OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS HAD BEEN FOR THE PREPARATORY ONE OF THE NOMINATING BODIES
CHOSEN TO COMMITTEE.
"THE WORK OF THE PREPARATORY
LEADING
COMMITTEE IS EXPECTED то TAKE TO THE INAUGURATION OF THE ABOUT 18 MONTHS TO COMPLETE,
SPECIALTY BOARDS ACADEMY WITH ITS FOUNDATION COLLEGES, FACULTIES AND IN THE MIDDLE OF 1991," SHE SAID.
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