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Hong Kong University — HK$1.5 million for a transmission electron microscope and accessories.
Hong Kong Polytechnic -- HK$1.5 million for equipment to pursue research in Computer Aided Design and Manufacture (CAD/CAM) -—— a field of great practical importance to industry in Hong Kong.
3 Workshop on the Interface between Medical Education and Service
Undergraduate clinical teaching is unique in two particular respects; instruction takes place for the most part in a non-university setting, i.e. in hospitals, and clinical teachers' terms of appointment require them to undertake patient-care as well as to teach. Similarly most post- graduate vocational and continuing training must be conducted where patients are being treated and by those providing such treatment.
The need to reconcile the needs of hospital service and medical education has been a recurrent problem in all advanced countries, and in Hong Kong the relationship between Universities and the Medical and Health Department, presently ill-defined, has become particularly urgent with the creation of the new medical school at the Chinese University and the building of the Tuen Mun Hospital. The proposal to seek a solution through a Workshop on an international basis in Hong Kong was submitted to the Foundation by Professor A.C.L. Hsieh, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong.
The Trustees fully supported this proposal and agreed that they would contribute HK$200,000 towards its realisation, provided that the workshop should not be held until the new Prince of Wales Hospital was completed and in operation as part of the Chinese University Medical School. This condition was accepted by Dr. Hsieh and the release of the Foundation's grant for the workshop was finally authorised at the end of 1983.
4. Support for a Senior Overseas Visitor to the University of Hong Kong
In response to a request from the University of Hong Kong the Trustees made a grant of HK$51,750 in order that Dr. J.W. Porteous, Reader in Biochemistry, University of Aberdeen, could spend three months in summer term 1984 to study and advise upon teaching methods in the Department of Biochemistry.
5. Support for specialised training overseas
a. There has been a considerable upsurge in bioengineering activities since Professor R.M. Kenedi joined the staff of the Hong Kong Polytechnic but there still remains great scope for further research and for improvements in patient care. The Trustees, in response to an application submitted through Professor Kenedi, therefore agreed to make available HK$50,000 to finance a 6-week visit of a Clinical Occupational Therapist to the Wheelchair Cushion Centre and the Strathclyde Bioengineering Unit, Glasgow. b. The Trustees also made a grant of HK$75,000 to the Hong Kong Polytechnic in order that Miss Jenny Mak, a teacher of Social Work in the Polytechnic, could pursue a 1 year course of study leading to an M. Phil. degree in Criminology at Cambridge University. 6. International Summer School on Polymer Physics.
An application was received from the Vice-Chancellor of the Chinese University for support required to meet expenses of participants. Bearing in mind the success of the first such summer school held in the university in 1982 and which had been supported by the Foundation, the Trustees after satisfying themselves as to the value of the proposal agreed to offer a grant of HK$100,000 to help meet the expenses of participants (but not of their spouses!)
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