507. For student midwives who are not registered nurses there is a two-year course of training carried out in Chinese at the Government Tsan Yuk Hospital.
508. At the end of the year there was a total of 169 student midwives in training of whom 31 were attending the two-year course at Tsan Yuk.
HEALTH VISITORS
509. The course of training for Health Visitors lasts for ten months at the end of which the students enter for the Health Visitor's Certificate examinations conducted by the Hong Kong Examination Board of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health. All entrants to the course are qualified nurses and midwives and the training covers a wide field including lectures, demonstrations, visits to a variety of institutions and factories and assignments for practical work to various branches of the Health Service.
$10.
The fifth course of training was completed at the Harcourt Health Centre during the year and ten candidates entered for the examinations, all of them passed. The sixth course of training started in October 1958 with a maximum intake of ten students.
RADIOGRAPHERS
511. The course of training for Radiographers in both diagnosis and therapy is carried out at the Queen Mary Hospital. It is recognized by the Society of Radiographers in the United Kingdom and examinations for the M.S.R. are held annually in the Colony. At the end of the year there were 23 student radiographers in training. The M.S.R.(R) examinations were held in April and November when 15 students passed the Part 1 examination and one student passed in Part [],
LABORATORY TECHNICIANS
512. The Government Institute of Pathology is recognized by the Institute of Medical Laboratory Technology in the United Kingdom as a teaching laboratory where the requisite period of experience and training necessary for entrance direct to the Intermediale examinations can be gained. The students are then required to go to the United Kingdom to sit the Intermediate Examination after which a further period of instruction, arranged by the Institute, qualifies for entrance to the Associateship examinations. At present there are four students in the United Kingdom who are studying for the A.L.M.L.T.
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513. There is a local course of training for Medical Laboratory Technicians which follows closely the curriculum of the IM.L.T. and which leads to a departmental examination. During the year 28 student Medical Laboratory Technicians were in training and one passed the qualifying departmental examination.
OTHER FORMS OF DEPARTMENTAL TRAINING
$14. There are courses of training for Assistant Physiotherapists, Dispensers and Tuberculosis Visitors which do not lead to a recognized qualification but which prepare those concerned for admission to permanent posts on the establishment after they have passed a depart- mental examination.
$15. Lectures are also given on the local aspects of medical social work to Probationer Almoners who already have the basic qualifications of a University Degree and a recognized Certificate or Diploma in Social Science.
516. The following table sets out the categories of training under- taken within the Department during the year,
Probaioner Assistant
Physiotherapist
Probationer Radiographic
Assistant
Student Disprostr
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Appointmerr
Resignation
Strength JU J13.99
Passect
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E
هند
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1
21
1 (0)
16
29
Probationer Laboratory
Assistan
28
+r
Probationer Assistant Almuner Student Nurse Student Male Nurse
7
1
11
OR
14
157
24
J
J
11
4.5
11
Student Nurse (Psychiatry) Student Malc Nurse (Psychiatry) Student Midwives
3(b)
41
A
15 (1
21
Student Midwives (Registered
Nurses) ..
40
3
37
30
Heulch Visitor (Student)
JO
10
JI
Tuberculosis Visitors
14
2
(2) 14 passed Part 1 during the year.
(8) All training in U.K.
(2) 9 training in U.K., 6 training in Hong Kong.
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