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SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1990

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NEED FOR LOCAL SPECIALIST MEDICAL TRAINING PROGRAMMES

LOCALLY-BASED

THERE IS AN URGENT NEED TO ESTABLISH FORMALISED,

MEDICAL EDUCATION PROGRAMMES IN HONG POST-GRADUATE AND CONTINUING

SPECIALIST TRAINING MORE EASILY AND

ACQUIRE KONG TO HELP DOCTORS WITHOUT HAVING TO GO OVERSEAS.

THE SECRETARY FOR HEALTH AND WELFARE, MRS ELIZABETH WONG,

HONG KONG COLLEGE OF THIS AT THE ANNUAL DINNER OF THE SURGEONS THIS (SATURDAY) EVENING.

SAID

ORTHOPAEDIC

THAT

THE

WAS IN RESPONSE SHE NOTED THAT IT

то SUCH NEED GOVERNMENT HAD DECIDED TO ESTABLISH A HONG KONG ACADEMY OF MEDICINE.

FOLLOWED

STATUTORY BODY ALSO

OF MEDICAL SCIENCE AND NECESSARY TO ENSURE PROVIDE ACCEPTABLE

THE DECISION TO ESTABLISH THIS THE RECOGNITION THAT WITH THE RAPID ADVANCE TECHNOLOGY, FURTHER EDUCATION AND TRAINING WERE THE COMPETENCY OF DOCTORS AFTER GRADUATION AND TO STANDARDS OF CARE IN MEDICAL SPECIALISATIONS.

OF

HAVE RELYING ROYAL

то DESIRABLE INSTEAD OF OVERSEAS BODIES SUCH AS THE

"FOLLOWING ON FROM THIS, 1T IS ALSO AS LOCALLY-DEFINED STANDARDS

SPECIALISATION, ENTIRELY ON STANDARDS COLLEGE OF EDINBURGH AND AUSTRALASIA.

BY SET

A

KONG, WE ARE WELL "WITH OUR MANY YEARS OF EXPERTISE IN HONG

то AND POISED TO ENHANCE HONG KONG'S REPUTATION INTERNATIONALLY

OF ESTABLISH

THE RIGHTFUL NICHE IN SPECIALISATION,' MRS WONG SAID.

INTERNATIONAL

ARENA

TO SET STANDARDS, THE PRINCIPAL ROLE OF THE ACADEMY WOULD BE

AND

AND EXAMINATIONS,

ACCREDIT THOSE ORGANISE EDUCATION, TRAINING DOCTORS WHO HAD SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED THE REQUIRED COURSE OF STUDIES.

"THE ACADEMY

WILL BE

SPECIALTY BOARDS, WITH WHOM THE AND EXAMINATION WILL LIE.

MADE

UP

AND COLLEGES, OF

FACULTIES ACTUAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR TRAINING

BUT + "THERE WILL INITIALLY BE SEVEN COLLEGES AND SIX FACULTIES

AND GROW, MRS WONG THESE WILL INCREASE AS NEW SPECIALTIES DEVELOP POINTED OUT.

+

A

PREPARATORY

UNDERTAKE THE

NECESSARY

THE ACADEMY AND TO ADVISE ON THE LEGISLATION REQUIRED TO THE ACADEMY'S OPERATIONS.

COMMITTEE

PLANNING

WOULD SHORTLY

WORK FOR

BE

APPOINTED

OF FORMATION

GIVE EFFECT

ΤΟ THE

ΤΟ

MRS WONG SAID THE COLLEGE

BE

OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS HAD BEEN FOR THE PREPARATORY ONE OF THE NOMINATING BODIES

CHOSEN TO COMMITTEE.

"THE WORK OF THE PREPARATORY

LEADING

COMMITTEE IS EXPECTED то TAKE TO THE INAUGURATION OF THE ABOUT 18 MONTHS TO COMPLETE,

SPECIALTY BOARDS ACADEMY WITH ITS FOUNDATION COLLEGES, FACULTIES AND IN THE MIDDLE OF 1991," SHE SAID.

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