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20 The College of Medicine existed, as a chartered institution, prior to the establishment of the University. It has established a high reputation, and rising standards of education have been main tained theou hout its history. Its graduats are in general and specialist practice in Hong Kong, China, Malaya and the Dutch Rast India. Its qualification is recognised by the General Medical Council as entitling to registration in Great Britain. 21# In the past the curriculum has conformed very largely to that found in medical schools in the British Isles. with the increased emphasis placed in recent times on prevention of disease, the Committee feels that some modification should be made in the curriculum of the Hong Kong School to adjust its teaching in this pespect the better to meet the pressing medical needs in the Fart. The Medical School in the past has had for the pre- medical uni pre-clinical periods, whole-time professors and lecturers, but in the three clinical y ars, it has been a reconised practice for the professors and lecturers in clinical. subjects also to act as government consultants. The Frofessor of Pathology, 130, has had duties in connection with the ueen Mary (Governmen) Hospital, which is the chief teaching hospital for University students. In order to achieve a close integration of touching and practice in public health, it was arranged shortly before the war for the Deputy Director of the Medical Services of the Hong Fong Government to be ex-officio the Frofessor of Public Health in the University. The Committee recommends the continuance of the arrangement for the clinical and pathological
posts, but the teaching of preventive medicine has now become so important a part of th medical curriculum, embracing as it does teaching in social medicine andpublic health, that the Committee reccramends the supersession of the previous arrangement by the formation of a University Department of Social Medicine and Public Health, under a full-time Head, who would be a professor in the University. This Department should expand, as soon as it convenient- ly can, to include a post-graduate course for a diploma in Social Medicin and Public Health, corresponding to the D.F.H. course in Great Britain. It would then require two sub-sections:- one for epidemiology and one for the practical application of the results of nutritional studies.
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The Committee is fully aware of the difficulties which may arise in the appointment of professors who at the same time, hold posts in government or other teaching hospitals. The Committee suggests, for the consideration of the University, the possibility of the establishment of a joint Appointments Poard to overcome these difficulties.
23時 23 It is now generally recognised that in order to maintain fresh- ness of cubbook and competence in teaching, it is essential that the staff in the medical shhool should have adequate opportunities to undertake research, cither individually, or as part of a team. Committee recommends that the University should encourage, by the
The careful selection of its professors, the establishment in all departments in the Medical School of a reputation for original re- search work. A reputation of this type would make the recruitment of first-class staff easier.
24 5 on of the weaknesss in the medical school in the past has been that the teaching of physiological chemistry in the Department of Physiology has not been as extensive as is now necessary with the great developments in bio-chemistry. This will be remedied by the establishment of a separate Department of Bio-Chemistry in the Faculty of Science which should release the staff of the Physiological Department for teaching and research in experimental physiology. 257 There was a difference of opinion in the committe about the
-place or puchacotomy in the curriculum. A scientific study of the subject would place it manifestly among the major subjects and would
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