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Medical Licentiate Examination results announced
The Licentiate Committee of the Medical Council of Hong Kong announced today (Tuesday) that 25 candidates have passed the final part of the Licentiate Examination for unregistrable doctors while 50 others have failed. This part of the examination, held between July 4 and 6, was an oral examination to test candidates' ability to apply professional knowledge to clinical problems.
Candidates were examined by two panels of examiners in each of the three disciplines: Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
The successful candidates will be required to undergo an 18-month period of assessment and training in hospitals approved by the Medical Council, starting in September.
End/Tuesday, July 25, 1995
187 VMs return home voluntarily
A group of 187 Vietnamese Migrants today (Tuesday) returned to Vietnam under the Voluntary Repatriation Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Comprising 60 men, 53 women, 37 boys and 37 girls, they were the 233rd batch to go back under the programme.
The group brought to 1,141 the total number of Vietnamese Migrants who had returned voluntarily this year, and to 45,335 the total number of returnees since the programme started in March 1989.
End/Tuesday, July 25, 1995