Bulletin Number Five 1987

GMC Recognizes CUHK Degrees The University has been informed by the President of the General Medical Council (GMC) of the United Kingdom that its Overseas Committee has agreed to recognize the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MB ChB) of the University under sections 19 and 21 of the United Kingdom Medical Act 1983 for the purposes of full and provisional registration in the United Kingdom. The GMC will therefore accept Certificates of Full Registration issued to medical graduates of the University by the Medical Council of Hong Kong as evidence that those graduates have completed the experience required for the grant of full registration in the United Kingdom. The GMC recognition is the result of the visit to the University's Faculty of Medicine by a delegation led by Professor John Anderson. At the invitation of the University, the delegation of four distinguished English medical educationists visited the Faculty between 10th May and 2nd June, 1987. Their itinerary covered all the preclinical and clinical departments of the Faculty, the Prince of Wales Hospital and the United Christian Hospital, and they observed the conduct of the Second Professional Examination on Pathology and Parts 1 and 2 of the Third Profession Examination on all Clinical subjects which took place in May/June 1987. The delegates met the academic staff, external examiners, representatives of students and the first graduates of the Faculty then serving their internship year. It has been the usual practice of the GMC to pay such visits after one or two classes have graduated from a new medical school. The recognition will be retroactive to cover the first batch of MB ChB of the University who graduated in 1986. With GMC recognition, CUHK graduates may now obtain full registration in the United Kingdom for the purpose of pursuing postgraduate training in preparation for membership/fellowship examinations of the Royal Colleges. Formal recognition of the CUHK degrees also confirms that the Faculty of Medicine of the University is of a standard comparable to Commonwealth medical schools under the GMC. Personalia 1st October to 31 st December 1987 I. Emeritus Professors Professor Ma Lin Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry Professor Chan Yau-wa Emeritus Professor of Physics II. Elections/Concurrent Appointments Professor Arthur K.C. Li Associate Dean, Faculty of Medicine Dr. Walter K。K. Ho Radiation Protection Officer, Office of Radiation Protection Mrs. Angela Yang Supervisor, Mall Buildings Management Office III. Honorary Appointment Mr. Ho Ching-hin Honorary Adviser, Department of Anthropology IV. Appointments Academic Staff Faculty of Medicine Professor Michael Gary Nicholls Professor of Medicine 16