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The training of officers in all grades is therefore an important task. Unless adequate mumbers of staff are avilable, the services will be affected. In addition, the department recognizes the need for providing contiming training for medical and health staff to enable them to improve their skill in their respective fields. This will keep them up- to-date with developments and improved techniques, and so raise general standards.
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In line with such a policy, the post of Medical Training Administrator was created two years ago. This officer is now responsible for co-ordinating and organising all aspects of training among doctors, murses and the professions supplementary to medicine.
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DOCTORS
Post-graduate training for doctors in the various branches of medicine and surgery is carried out by the University of Hong Kong's clinical professors and government clinical consultants. Every year, subject to the requirements of the services, a mumber of doctors are sent overseas for higher professional qualification and to obtain the necessary clinical experience in specialised subjects.
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In addition to the co-operation of university professors, there are arrangements for the higher professional examinations to be held in Hong Kong by the Royal Colleges of Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Pathology, and the Faculty of Anaesthesia.
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Besides full-pay study leave, other financial assistance include the New Zealand Medical Aid Programme, the World Health Organisation aid programme, the Sino-British Trust, the Commonwealth Scholarship, and the Li Po Chun Scholarship for the training of doctors overseas.
Last year,
28 government doctors were enabled by these means to acquire higher qual- ifications in their respective fields.
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DENTAL STAFF
Training in dentistry is not available in Hong Kong, but Dental Scholarships are provided by the Government for training dentists overseas.
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In the current year, three scholarships have been granted to scholars to study at the University of Sydney and two graduates returned to Hong Kong. So far seventy scholars out of the 96 scholarships avarded in the past years have completed their professional training as qualified dental surgeons and returned to Hong Kong.
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Regarding the in-service training of Government Student Dental Technicians, 18 students were recruited this year. These students will be appointed Dental Technicians provided they completed the three year training course and passed the Intermediate City and Guild Certificate Examination in Dental Technology. In addition to the above 18 students, a dental assistant from Western Samoa and one from United Christian Hospital have joined the training programme. Thus the total number of students under training is twenty. 240.
During the year, one dental officer was sent to study for the Diploma in Public Dentistry in United Kingdom and one for Dental Health Tutorship in New Zealand. A Dental Murse was sent on a 12 month dental nurse tutor course in New Zealand and four other dental surgery assistants were sent to Singapore for dental nurse training under World Health Organization Fellowship.
Registered Nurses
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NURSING STAFF
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There are three Government Hospital Schools of Nursing. at the Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary Hospitals are general schools, and the one at the Castle Peak Hospital is for psychiatric mursing. Training at Government Schools and at the Caritas Medical Centre is in English, but there are also approved schools at the Thung Wah Group of Hospitals, the Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital and the Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital, where instruction is in Cantonese. Examinations are held by the Nursing Board of Hong Kong, and there is full reciprocity of registration between the Board and the General Mursing Council of England and Wales.
Enrolled Nurses
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Two types of course are held for Enrolled Nurses.
The general
2 year course is conducted at the Kowloon Hospital, whilst the psychiatric 2 year course is held at the Castle Peak Hospital. Enrolment examinations are held by the Hong Kong Nursing Board, but there is no reciprocity between the Board and the General Nursing Council of England and Wales.
Post-basic Courses
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10 nurses returned to Hong Kong having taken overseas courses of instruction in Nursing Administration (Public Health), Marsing Education, Dietetics, Central-Sterile-Supply technique, Theatre-Service-Centre technique, and Burns and Plastic Surgery Nursing. A further twelve nurses are at present overseas studying Mursing Education, Intensive Nursing Care, Central-Sterile- Supply technique, Dietetics, Neurological Nursing and Electro-encephalography technique and Thoracic Nursing.
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For registered general nurses, a one year course in Midwifery is held in English at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and at the Caritas Medical Centre. The same course is held in Chinese at the Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital, the Kwong Wah Hospital and the Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital.
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