and experienced clinicians is assured in practically all the specialist fields.
DENTISTS AND DENTAL NURŠES
461. No undergraduate training in Dentistry has yet been established in Hong Kong, but Government awards seven scholarships annually, at present tenable in Australis. At the end of March 1962, there were 36 Government Dental scholars studying at Australian Universities, 5 graduates in Dentistry returned from Australia during the year, these doctors being the first to qualify in Australia under the existing Scholar- ship Scheme.
462. Dental nurses trained to carry out preventive and minor opera- tive work in the Government Service under the supervision of Dental officers are being trained in New Zealand and Penang. A further two student dental nurses were sent to Penang under World Health Organiza- tion scholarships during 1961.
NURSES
463. The event of the year was a visit paid by Her Royal Highness The Princess Alexandra of Kent to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital School of Nursing on the 8th November, 1961.
464. The School, which was opened in September 1960, has doubled the facilities for the training of nurses and there are now 431 student nurses undergoing general nurse training. The opening of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in mid 1963 and other developments will absorb the whole output of this school and the complementary Nurses Pre- liminary Training School at the Queen Mary Hospital.
465. The School of Psychiatric Nursing at the Castle Peak Hospital, now in its second year, has 43 students in training of whom 9 are women. The increased numbers now coming forward for this training is encouraging and it is believed that the prejudice against nursing in a Mental Hospital is gradually being overcome. A welcome addition to the psychiatric nursing strength was the return of 11 qualified psychiatric nurses who have trained in British Mental Hospitals under a Govern- ment Scholarship Scheme.
466. Nurses Training Schools approved by the Hong Kong Nursing Board are also maintained by the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, Nethersole Hospital and the Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital. At the end of March 1962 there were under training as gencral nurses:
110
Government Schools of Nursing
Tung Wah Hospitals
Nethersole Hospital
Women Men
Toral
372
59
431
360
360
96
96
122
123
Total
- kl
950
60
1,000
Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital
MIDWIVES
467. Registered general nurses who have trained in the Government Schools of Nursing are expected to proceed to a one-year course in midwifery, conducted in English as the teaching medium, in the mater- nity wards of the Queen Mary and Kowloon Hospitals. Nurses who have trained in the other approved training schools can also take a similar course, conducted in Chinese, in the maternity wards of their respective hospitals.
468. For student midwives who are not registered nurses there is a two-year training course conducted in Chinese by Government staff at the Tsan Yuk Hospital.
HEALTH VISITORS
469. As in previous years, a course of training was held at the Harcourt Health Centre for ten student Health Visitors. Each entrant to this course has previously obtained qualifications both in general nursing and in midwifery. After one year's tuition and study, the students take the examination for the Health Visitor's Certificate which is conducted by the Hong Kong Examination Board of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health.
RADIOGRAPHERS
470. The training of radiographers at the Queen Mary Hospital in radiodiagnosis is recognized by the Society of Radiographers in the United Kingdom, Examinations for both Parts I and II of the Member- ship of the Society of Radiographers (Diagnostic) are held annually in the Colony.
LABORATORY TECHNICIANS
471. The Government Institute of Pathology is recognized by the Institute of Medical Laboratory Technology in the United Kingdom as a teaching laboratory from which entrance can be gained directly to the Intermediate examination of the Institute. This examination was held in the Colony for the first time in May 1961 when out of the
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