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hospitals. For other para-medical grades of staff in-service training and opportunities are provided to enable them to qualify as radiographers, laboratory technicians, dispensers, prosthetic, orthoptic, mould laboratory, and dental technicians. A number of suitable and promising staff of these para-medical services are sent abroad for further training and experience.
Hong Kong has no local facilities for training in dentistry, but a government dental scholarship scheme enables a number of students from Hong Kong to go overseas each year to study dentistry. A total of 93 scholarships have been awarded since the scheme started in 1954.
There are three government hospital schools of nursing where instruction is given in English; two of these provide a three-year course in general nursing and are attached to Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Queen Mary Hospital. The other school, in Castle Peak Hospital, provides a three-year course in psychiatric nursing.
Other approved nurse training schools are attached to the following government- assisted or private hospitals; the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, the Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital, and the Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital—where instruction is given in Chinese-and the Caritas Medical Centre, where instruction is given in English. Final registration examinations are conducted by the Hong Kong Nursing Board, with full reciprocity of registration between the board and the General Nursing Council for England and Wales.
Queen Elizabeth Hospital and all the above-mentioned government-assisted and private hospitals run one-year courses in obstetric nursing for registered nurses. On completion of their training, students are qualified to sit for the registration examination conducted by the Hong Kong Midwives Board. The courses, held at Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Caritas Medical Centre, are conducted in English, and are recognised as equivalent to Part I midwifery training by the Central Mid- wives Board in England. Due to the limited scope of domiciliary midwifery, adequate practical training in this aspect cannot be given and full reciprocity of registration with the Central Midwives Board in England is not possible at present.
The Tsan Yuk Hospital, which is the only government maternity hospital, offers a two-year obstetric course in Chinese for students who are not registered nurses. On completion of this two-year training, they are eligible to sit for the registration examination conducted by the Hong Kong Midwives Board.
The Government Hospital Schools of Nursing also offer two-year courses in general nurse training and psychiatric nurse training at Kowloon Hospital and Castle Peak Hospital respectively. Five other approved schools for this type of course in general nursing are attached to government-assisted and private hospitals. They are Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital, Haven of Hope Sanatorium, Grantham Hospital, Tung Wah Group of Hospitals and Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital. As from July 1972, pupil nurses who have completed these courses and have passed the examination conducted by the Hong Kong Nursing Board become enrolled
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