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BIOCHEMISTRY:

A new Department of Biochemistry should now

be developed, not by any means subordinated.

to the requirements of other Departments of the Faculty of

Medicine, but capable of producing work of wider scope, The

initial staff would be:

ANATOMY:

1 Professor

1 Lecturer and Demonstrators.

Very ample materials have always been avail-

able for the study of Histology and Embryology and is expected to continuo. The staff that might be adequate would be: 1. Professor 1 Lecturer (Senior) 1. Loctirer and two or more demonstrators.

PHYSIOLOGY:

The teaching of Biochemistry has hitherto

fallen to this Dopartment. A soparato Depart-

ment is now proposed. The importance of a study of nutrition has

been emphasized only lately in many parts of the world, and

clearly the oxperience of the Japanese occupation and experience

of internment in Japanese Camps in the minds of Hong Kong people,

has given it an undue importance. How nutritional studies are

to bo intigrated with the Departments of Physiology, Biochemistry

and Preventive Medicine is rather a matter of expediency than of

principle. A lectureship is shown here among the posts in the

Physiology Department. The staff should be:

SURGERY:

1

Professor

2 Lecturers

1 Lecturer (nutrition)

Domonstrators.

The staff required depends in part on the sizo

of the classes and therefore of the number of

groups into which they must be divided for clinical teaching and

demonstrations.

The Minimum requirements would appear to be:

1 Professor

1 Lecturer Opthalmology

2 Senior Lecturers 1 Lecturer (Ear, Nose

and throat)

1 Lecturer Orthopaedics 1 Lecturer

Anaesthetics.

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