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absence of a residence for students when attached to the wards has been noted in the previous section.

30. At present emergency cases, accidents, injuries, fractures (of which there are many) and acute abdominal cases, are admitted to the Government wards, and the student has no opportunity of seeing such cases on first arrival at the hospital, or of gaining experience in their immediate management and treatment. A proportion of such cases should be admitted to the University wards, and pending the provision of a hostel, temporary arrange- ments should be made for students to see urgent cases admitted under charge of the Government Medical Officers.

Instruction in special subjects is given by members of the Government Medical Service on the specialist staff of the Govern- ment Hospitals, who are appointed lecturers in their respective subject. Suitable and satisfactory courses of instruction are provided in Radiology, Diseases of the Eye, Venereal Diseases, and Anaesthetics.

31. Radiology.—A course of lecture-demonstrations is given by the radiologist to the Queen Mary Hospital. Students are required to complete a three months' clinical appointment in the X-ray and Massage departments. The departments are fully equipped with modern apparatus. A room immediately below the X-ray therapy section has been set aside for a Physics laboratory under the control of the University Professor of Physics, and is being fully equipped to undertake all measure- ments of dosage. This laboratory, I understand, will be the first of its type in the Far East.

32. Diseases of the Eye. Since 1933-4 a specialist Ophthalmic Surgeon of the Government Medical Service has assumed charge of the instruction, and twelve beds for eye cases have been allotted under his charge in the Queen Mary Hospital. The course consists of lectures and demonstrations in the wards, as well as in the Out-patient Department of the old Civil Hospital, where a teaching clinic is attended by students.

33. Venereal Diseases.-A course of lectures is given by the Venereal Diseases specialist, and students see cases in the ward, where there are twenty-one beds reserved, and also in the

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Out-patient departments. The arrangements for practical instruction are excellent, and the student has ample opportunities of gaining experience in diagnosis, and in the management and treatment of cases.

34. Anaesthetics. Since 1933-4 an additional appointment of anaesthetist to the Hospital has been made. The anaesthetist has duties also in other hospitals in the Colony, as well as duties as emergency Medical Officer. The appointment is one long desired and has proved of great value. Students are given a short course of lectures, watch the administration of anaesthetics, and then administer anaesthetics themselves under supervision. The practical instruction is well arranged, and each student has ample opportunities for personal experience.

35. In the course of visits to the Queen Mary Hospital and to the Out-patient Clinics at the old Civil Hospital, I attended many routine classes, demonstrations, and teaching clinics held in the Departments of Medicine and Surgery. There was a note- worthy keenness of teachers and students. The classes are small. The change from the wards and surroundings of the old Civil Hospital in the city to the new Queen Mary Hospital in the open surroundings of the country, could well be likened to a change from the slums to the seaside. And in the new atmosphere the instruction of students thrives. It is on personal observation, therefore, that I feel able to state with confidence that the students in Hong Kong are given a sound training in clinical medicine and surgery,

36. The willing co-operation between the staffs of the Uni- versity units and the staffs of the Government Medical Depart- ment to further the interests of medical education, was a pleasure to observe. The Hospital is one institution, not regarded as divided into two parts, one Government and one University, either as to staff or teaching. Indeed, as recorded above, many members of the Hospital staff are University lecturers engaged in teaching certain special subjects. But there are other special subjects included in Medicine and Surgery for which specialists have not yet been provided, and in such special subjects in- struction must for the present be included within the scope of

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