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view will be called for.

40.

We need not dwell upon the fine traditions of

the old Hong Kong Medical College in the days before it

became merged in the infant University. But we maintain

that the present general standard of medical knowledge

and practice in the Colony is today a very high one; and

that this is very largely due to the presence in our

midst of the Medical Faculty of the University.

not only that in the three clinical Professors the Colony

possesses consultants of a very high order; what private

practitioners and Government doctors would alike admit is

that the University provides a stimulus and an atmosphere

which could ill be spared.

It is

41. Medical graduates of the University are

registrable under the General Medical Council and we

consider that the periodical scrutiny carried out by

representatives of that Council must be of great value

to the Faculty, and that the prestige of such a

recognition is not to be despised. In such circum-

stances we will not be expected to say anything about

the course of instruction, except to record the fact

that it seems to be universally agreed that, clinically

speaking, the doctors turned out by the University may

be considered to be thoroughly well trained.

42. We have carefully considered the question of

what becomes of all those highly trained doctors. From

all sides we have been told that private practice in the

Colony is reaching saturation point and it has even

been suggested to us that further local registration of

Hong Kong graduates (except for the few required by the

University itself or by the Government) might well be

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