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Supplementary to question No. 10 on 12.3.86

Dr. Ip : Sir, when will this identification of extra posts above

the inadequate 186 existing ones be completed at the Prince of Wales

Hospital, and why has the Government not considered looking for

available posts in subvented hospitals as a contingency in case this

exercise proves to be inadequate?

Secretary for Health and Welfare: As I explained, under the Ordinance

it is the responsibilities of the two universities to approve posts.

The 11 hospitals, of course, which are approved by the Hong Kong

University do include a number of subvented hospitals and it would

be open to the Chinese University if insufficient posts are available

in the Prince of Wales Hospital also to look to the subvented sector.

Dr. Chiu: Sir, under the

Medical Registration Ordinance, there

are pre-registration training post, called externs which do not require

residency in hospitals. They receive

(w) interna but wak the same pay

under different

working conditions

registered medical practitioners. Will the Government consider the

policy of converting externs into interns in order to standardise

the two pre-registration training programmes if intern posts are

available?

before they are fully qualified as

Secretary for Health and Welfare: Sir, I think this is a rather

separate question relating to different type of medical students

I would like to offer Dr. Chiu a written answer on this point.