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(g)

(iii) A hospital Library, where current medical

publications could be consulted.

(iv) Additional Hostels for the accommodation

of house staff (say 20) and senior medical students (say 30), to include provision for a certain number of women,

Under-graduate Instruction should continue to be in conformity with the standards laid down by the General Medical Council, whose registration of the medical degree crnferred by Hong Kong University has always added great prestige to the institution. It might be wise to adopt certain modifications in the form of the curriculum, chiefly by introducing the system of a whole-time clinical Muterneship for the final year of the medical counso, I understand that this has already been triod in certain medical schools at home, and it is the general procedure in Canada and the United States. If this system were adopted it would enable full use to be made of the abundant clinical material in Hong Kong, and it would also bring the College into conformity with the general practice of Medical Colleges in China,·

short,

(h) Fost-graduate instruction. As already mentioned, this

should form one of the main sins of the College. well organised Post-graduate Courses on various subjects would be extremely popular both with former Hong Kong graduates and with doctors in China proper. · Previous experience had shown that couraes such as these attract a considerable enrolment, and would possibly do more than anything else to foster friendly relationships with medical institutions in China. Provision should also be made for the awarding of Post-graduate Followships in the various departments of the College for periods of 3,6 or 12 months. In October, 1941, the University also ate.ted a 6 months' course for a special Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (5.X,). There was a full enrolment of both thiness and Buropean candidates, and the course held out great promise for the future, but it was unfortunately interrupted by the war.

Chungking.

5th September, 1944.

(Signed) Gurdoa King.

:

Gordon King, 3.5.0.5., F.R.C.0.0.

Former Dean, Faculty of Hedicine, University of Hong Kong.