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PHARMACOLOGY.

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Thore was difference in the Committee about the

place of Pharmacology in a Medical course in

Hong Kong. A soientific study of the subject manifestly would

place it among the major subjects of the curriculum: it would be

the matter of a Department with its own Professor. Whis lus is

not universally conceded in all Eritish Universities, nor is thore

convincing evidence of its importance in the curriculum that this

organization would suggest.

Hitherto the teaching has been done

Medical Jurispru-

dence and

by

Radiology.

part-time lecturers

-

members of the Colonial Medical organiza-

tion.

Modical Jurisprudence and Radiology were taught by the Government

Medical Officers who held specialist, appointments.

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH.

The importance of this Department of medical

education in the conditions of Hong Kong cannot be

In order to achieve a closc

be overstressed.

integration of teaching and practice it was agreed that the Deputy

Director of the Modical Servicos of the Hong Kong Government should

hold also the Professorship in the University. The arrangement had

not worked long enough before the War to justify a judgment of

its success or failure. A museum of Hygiene was in prosors of

developing when War supervened. A post-graduate course held in

1940 was attended by about forty medical men, mainly from China,

and this experience convinced the University Council that it

would be justified in making provision for a course for Diploma

in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene if it could be done well enough to

earn the recognition from the appropriate authority in the United

Kingdom. In such a case it might be necessary for the Professor-

ship to become a full time appointment. The pinimum staff would

become:

1 Professor

2 Lecturers

and in addition teaching in Diploma course would require

co-operation with the Department of Tathology and Medicine.