209. In-service training in dental technology continued in 1971 for government student dental technicians, while cvening classes for dental technicians in private employment were held at the Hong Kong Technical College. During the year, three government student dental technicians passed the intermediate examination of the City and Guilds of the London Insitute in Dental Technology. In-service training for selected dental surgery assistants in the fields of dental radiography and ortho- dontics was also carried out.
210. Seven dental surgery assistants were in Singapore and Penang during the year under World Health Organization scholarships for training in dental nursing. A dental nurse was on a 12-month dental nurse tutor course in New Zealand under a World Health Organization fellowship, to assist, on her completion of the course, in the training of dental nurses in Hong Kong.
Nurses
NURSING STAFF
211. There are three government hospital schools of nursing. Those at the Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary hospitals are general schools, and the one at the Castle Peak Hospital is a psychiatric nursing school. Training at government schools and at the Caritas Medical Centre is in English. There are also approved schools at the Tung Wah group of hospitals, the Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital and the Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital, where instruction is in Can- tonese. Examinations are held by the Nursing Board of Hong Kong. and there is full reciprocity of registration between the Board and the General Nursing Council of England and Wales.
Nursing auxiliaries
212. Two types of course are held for nursing auxiliaries. The general course lasts two years. It is undertaken at the Kowloon Hospital, and consists of theoretical and practical training in basic and routine nursing care of general hospital patients. The psychiatric course, also two years, is held at the Castle Peak Hospital, and consists of theoretical and practical training in the performance of routine nursing duties for, and in the maintenance of custodial care of, psychiatric patients.
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Post-graduate nurses
213. Nine qualified nurses who had been sent overseas for further study returned to Hong Kong, having successfully gained post-graduate certificates in nursing education, dietetics, theatre service centre tech- nique, orthopaedic nursing and intensive care therapy. A further nine nurses went overseas to study nursing education, nursing admin- istration. dietetics, theatre service centre technique and ophthalmic nursing,
Midwifery
214. For registered general nurses, a one-year course in midwifery is held three times a year. For student midwives who are not registered nurses, a two-year course of training at the Tsan Yuk Hospital, and to a limited extent at other approved training schools, is accepted by the Midwives Board for entry to its examinations.
215. Due to the limited scope of domiciliary midwifery in Hong Kong, adequate practical training in this aspect of midwifery cannot be given, and full reciprocity of recognition of midwifery qualifications with the Central Midwives Board of England and Wales is not possible.
Health visitors
216. A nine-month health visitors' course is held yearly for regis- tered nurses who also hold a midwifery certificate. Nine trained nurses successfully completed this course, which ended in January 1972.
Health auxiliaries
217. A two-year course for health auxiliaries is held yearly. It provides training in health education and public health nursing, which includes maternal and child health work, training and keeping of records of infectious diseases in general, and of tuberculosis, leprosy and venereal diseases in particular.
RADIOGRAPHERS
218. Training in this sphere continued during the year, and examina- tions were held in the Colony for membership of the Society of Radio- graphers if England for both therapy and diagnostic radiographers. During the year, three D.M.R.D. and four D.M.R.T. candidates passed the part I examination, held in Hong Kong in October 1971, by examiners from the Examining Board in England. Five candidates passed the final D.M.R.D. examination, and one the D.M.R.T.
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