CO129-594-1 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 29-3-1946 - 3-7-1946 — Page 147

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Physiology:

For the ordinary teaching of medical students this

The work Department seems to have been adequately equipped. will be lightened by the transfer of work in Biochemistry to a new Department. The importance of nutritional studies has been borne in on Hong Kong people and they will now realise how much work yet is to be done in this field. Home experience of the War years and after has made it unnecessary to offer an elaborate justification of a proposal to develop these studies in Hong Kong where a traditional dietary widely different from the British is established, and calls for the investigation of trained workers. The integration of nutritional studies with the work of the Department of Physiology, Biochemistry and Preventive Medicine is a matter of expediency for the Faculty to determine. A Lectureship is set down among the posts in the Physiology Department.

Surgery:

The staff required depends in part on the size of the classes and therefore of the number of groups into which they must be divided for clinical teaching and demonstrations. Our estimate of the minimum requirements of staff are shown in the summary below.

Employment of Government Officers and Private Practitioners as lecturers:

The lecturers in Orthopaedics, Opthalmology and Diseases of Ear, Nose and Throat might continue to be drawn from specialists in Hong Kong among Government medical officers. Hitherto the Government has given generous help to the University in allowing it to have the services of its specialists as University teachers. But in a place remoto from any great medical centre the University must be free to get such teaching aid as it can from specialists who are not Government servante. The only hospitals suitable for University teaching are the Government hospitals. A useful precedent was established when shortly before the war beds were assigned to a specialist in Paediatrics, a graduate of the University in private practice, when he was appointed, after consultation with the Director of Medical Services, to be the University lecturer in that subject. The range of choice will never be wide but the University must take advantage of all the skills that are available. It would obviously be necessary that the Director of Medical Services whose responsibility the hospitalc are should be satisfied with the qualifications and suitability on other grounds of auch part-time lecturers.

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Mcdicine and Tropical Medicine:

In this Department valuable help might be enlisted if the University were untirely free to make use of the skill of selected private practitioners.

Gynaecology and Midwifery.

Good hospital facilities exist and the work done in the past justifies hope for the development of good post-graduate

courses.

Pharmacology. Medical Jurisprudence and Radiology.

There was difference in the Committee about the place of

A scientific Pharmacology in the Medical course in Hong Kong. study of the subject would place it manifestly among the major

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