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THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE
BUILDING UP A GREAT TRADITION
SPLENDID WORK OF THE UNIVERSITY
MEDICAL WARDS
work is the outpatients department of the Hospital.
The Faculty of Medicine has a clinical professors has a number of more important function than the beds in the Government Civil Hos. teaching of students. The acquire, pital for which he is solely respon ment of knowledge and its transsible, and each of thess professors mission to the scientific world will advanca Hong Kong University
Another great benefit which the probably as much as the develop University has enjoyed at the hands ment and formation of the character of the Rockefeller Foundation is the of the students. The staff is fully extension to it of the Foundation's system of travelling fellowships. equipped in teaching, and, notwith-Four of the professors of the Medical standing the handicaps in the way Faculty have had the advantage of of limited laboratory accommuda these fellowships. The Assistant in Surgery held one of these travelling tion and facilities, a certain amount fellowship for twenty-one months; of research work and publications the Assistant Obstetrics and Gynae. have been made. The Faculty com. I cology held one for sixteen months, whilst two graduates are now hold prises seven Deportments, vizing fellowships for twelve months Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics and ench. These travelling fellowships
A LABORATORY
One of the well equipped scientific laboratories,
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Gynaecology, Pathology, Anatomy, give the teachers and students of Physiology and Biology, and, under the Faculty great opportunities for the guidande of brilliant and securing valuable experience; scholarly lecturers, their record ha been one of uninterrupted progress and achievement."
THE STAFF
proximately sixty-sight per cent, of the seventy-eight graduates of the Medical Faculty are in general prac tico, half of them in Hong Kong. Thirty-three per cent. aro still attached to the University, being- either engaged in post-graduate work or on travel study, Three of the Faculty's graduates have been at teaching appointed assistants hospitals.
URGENT NEEDS The Medical Faculty has many wanta and some of them are urgent, but it has also big opportunities. There is at least a reasonable pros. peut of the University of Hong Kong developing a great medical school. Certainly the material is there. The problem of disease is a world problem which cannot be effectively attached in the unaided hospitals and laboratories of Europe and America, however claborate and affluent theso institutions may be. The scientific researcher in a tiny island like Hong Kong is tackling problems which affect humanity and humanity is his audience. Thanks to the generosity of such bensine- tors as Sir Robert Ho Tung and many others, the Faculty has been able to acquire the services of bril liant physiologists, surgeons and pathologists, not the least of whom is Professor W. I. Gerrard, whoso work as the University and at the Civil Hospital has earned a lasting placa in the annals of the Colony. The other Departments, a. descrip- tion of which we shall now give, are also headed by men of outstanding qualifications and character.
THE MEDICAL FACULTY
In 1931 the Chair of Pathology was filled by Dr. L. J. Davis, M.D. (Edinburgh), who had been working in the Sudan and in Egypt. Under his capable hands the teaching in Pathology soon regained the ground that it inevitably lost owing to the difficulties encountered during the two years preceding his appoint- ment.
The new regulations pussed by the Faculty in 1830 were brought into force in 1931 and for the first time a therapeutics and pharmacy One of the most notable events The staff of the Faculty now examination was held as part of in the history of the Faculty was consists of whole-time professora the Fourth Degree Examination. the provision of three full-time in surgery, physiology, pathology, The examination in Junior Patho clinical chairs. Im 1920 the Dean of obstetrics and gynaecology. The logy was dispensed with and Phar- the Faculty was authorised to ap. Professors of Chemistry and Physics macology was merged into Physio- proach the Rockefeller Foundation work in this Faculty and are both logy. In 1931, also, it was arranged to give a special course of practical in the matter. Dr. Richard Peares, members of its Board. There are of the Rockefeller Foundation, came whole-time assistants to the Pro-pharmacy at the Government Civil to Hong Kong and negotiations fessor of Physiology, Surgery, Ob- Hospital under the guidance of the ensued which ended in the endow-stetrics and Gynaecology, whilst late Mr. Shand, the Hospital ment of three chairs in surgery, whole-time assistants in medicine Apothecary. The course, which way medicine and obstetrics-the endow and pathology were appointed some held two afternoons a week, was ment being in each case $350,000 time later. There is a whole time attended by students who wore H.K. Professor K. H. Digby, the tutor in anatomy and a part tim-acting as anaesthetic clerks. In ad- Ho Tung Professor of Clinical Sur- tutor in obstetrics, and part-time dition, a new clinical appointment gery, holds the Chair in Surgery; lecturers in opthalmology, clinicial was instituted, namely Dr. J. Anderson was appointed in medicine, clinical obstetrics, gynae-Radiology, and Venereal Diseases; 1923 to that of Medicine and Dr. R. cology, medical jurisprudence and this appointment is to be held an E. Tottenham was appointed in the hygiene, vaccination and morbid nually for a period of three months by a succession of students who following year to the Chair of Ob-anatomy. stetrics and Gynaecology."
thus receive instruction in Radiology for six weeks and instruction in Venereal Diseases for the remaining six weeks..
THE ROCKFELLER SCHEME
One of the developments involved in this Rockefeller Scheme was the creation of a separato Chair of Anatomy to which Dr. J. L. Shell- shear was appointed in 1922. The scheme also entailed the appoint ment of a full-time assistant in each of the branches, also the appoint ment of a house obstetrician and of full-time assistants in anatomy, phy- siology and pathology. Each of the
The above description gives one comprehensive idea of the very thorough and satisfactory manner in which the various departments are run. As to the numbers of students benefitting from these courses, it is interesting to note that in 1812, there were twenty-one students on the rolls of the Medical Faculty; in 1918 there were sixty-five, and in 1921, eighty-eight. In 1926 there were 120, ten of whom were women
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The receipt by the University of contribution from the Boxer In- demnity gives the Faculty the chanco to recommend some long-delayed and necessary improvements. Most of the recommendations provide for further increases in the Junior Staff, the object being to give the grad In 1931 there were 148 students in uates more opportunity for post- the Medical Faculty, and in this graduate study and teaching experi year saven obtained degrees. Ap-ence.
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