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The UPGC Medical Sub-committee was constituted early in November 1973. Its members are:
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Sir Sidney Gordon (Chairman)
Professor Sir Melville Arnott, TD,B.Sc.,MD, FRCP, FRCP. Ed.,
FRCP(C), FACP, FRC. Path. FRSE.
Sir Robert Aitken, M.D., D. Phil. FRCP.
Dr. M.R.Gavin, CBE, MA, D.Sc.
Dr. the Hon. G.H. Choa, CBE.
The Hon. Oswald Cheung, OBE, QC.
The Vice-Chancellors of both Universities were immediately notified of the formation of the Medical Sub-committee and asked to make suggestions as to how they considered the need for extra doctors and dentists could be met: and to submit these if possible by 1 December 1973. This was a very short time limit but the Vice-Chancellors after consultation with their academic colleagues responded promptly and constructively and their submissions were the basis of initial examination. During the course of December 1973 and January 1974 further information, mainly from Government officers, was acquired and the Medical Sub-committee met in Hong Kong from Sunday 3 February 1974 to Saturday 9 February 1974, with Sir Robert Aitken arriving earlier on Tuesday 29 January 1974 in order to make a preliminary examination of certain aspects.
During the visit the Sub-committee met formally the Medical Development Advisory Committee, the Director of Education, the Secretary for Social Services, the Principal Government Architect, the Project Manager Shatin, a representative of the Deputy Financial Secretary (who was personally a member of the Medical Development Advisory Committee), the Vice-Chancellor H.K.U. and the H.K.U. Dean of Medicine and the Vice-Chancellor CUHK and the three Presidents.
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Initial issues
7. The Sub-committee's terms of reference required it to consider how the medical and dental education requirements expressed in the Medical Development Advisory Committee Report should be met. These requirements are extensions of existing services and the general conditions and standards appropriate for existing services had to be used for the new services. In particular it meant that the extra doctors had to be registrable with the British General Medical Council and the dentists with the General Dental Council.
8. It was agreed there was no hope of training outside Hong Kong the extra doctors and dentists required. All countries capable of providing the appropriate training are experiencing increasing difficulties in maintaining programmes to meet their own medical and dental training needs and although efforts can be and are made to assist genuinely undeveloped territories there is no way in which Hong Kong can be presented in this guise. The training would therefore have to be carried out in Hong Kong.
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