CO129-591-2 Hong Kong University- award of degrees to medical students whose studies were interrupted by war.... 26-2-1943 - 19-12-1945 — Page 87

Faculty who, himself, escaped to China in

the Spring of 1942, then raised with the

General Medical Council the question of

whether they would be prepared to recognise the qualifications obtained by these the studies of these students who had been

forced to continue their training-outoide

Hong Kong. He stated that the SchoolS---

which they were attendin all ranked as Grade A

Universities under the Chinese Ministry of

On his assurance that

Education and that he considered the medical

was

eduation which they were receiving equivalent

to the training which they would have received

in Hong Kong, On this assurance the General Medical Council agreed that they would recognise Hong Kong degrees conferred on candidates who have

obtained push qualifications provided they had spent at least two years at Hong Kong

University prior to the Japanese occupation an

subsequently undergone courses of study and examinations in free China comparable with the courses and examinations which they would

normally have taken in Hong Kong?

The purpose of the proposed Order in Council is, therefore, to set up an Emergency Committee in this country, empowered to confer Hong Kong medical degrees on candidates at prosentin free

China whom Dr. Gordon King has certified as having fulfilled the two conditions referred to.

above.

Since this arrangement was agreed with the

General Medical Council it has been discovered

that due to a technicality the holders of such emergency degrees will not, after all, for the time being be eligible for inclusion in the medical register of the General Medical Council.

They