Bulletin Spring‧Summer 1991

and centrally managed bureaucratic ones, he says. Irrigators in the community systems are much more likely to obey the operational rules and to maintain the system than those in the bureaucratic systems, Tang concludes. Tang's book Institutions and Collective Action: The Case of Irrigation Systems will be published later this year by the Institute for Contemporary Studies in San Francisco. A graduate of the Department of Government and Public Administration at The Chinese University, Tang completed his undergraduate degree in 1982 and his M.Phil. in 1984. His M.Phil. thesis was entitled The Administrative Reform in the People Republic of China in the Post-Mao Era — Its Decision-Making Dimension. Dr. Lam Kwok Key Outshines 200 Candidates in a Professional Examination in Anaesthesia Dr. Lam Kwok Key, a 1987 graduate in medicine, came first in a professional examination (Part I) for the Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (Anaesthesia) and was awarded the Renton Prize. Dr. Lam is the first Hong Kong candidate to have won such an honour. Upon his graduation from this university, Dr. Lam started his professional training at the Prince of Wales Hospital and joined the Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Unit in 1988. Training is under the supervision of the Faculty of Anaesthesia of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. It will take a minimum of seven years and require, among other things ， the passing of a qualifying examination comprising two parts. Some 200 candidates from countries like Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia sat part one of the examination in early 1990 and Dr. Lam outdid them all. He will continue with his training in Hong Kong and attend the second part of the examination for a diploma in anaesthesia. Dr. Lam was understandably excited upon learning the good news of his success in the exam- ination. When interviewed by the Chinese University Bulletin, he said that pursuing a professional course in medicine is not as taxing as most people would imagine. Pre-clinical studies may be less exciting and the workload during that stage may be heavier. Once past that stage, however, students' interest will be stimulated by various challenging clinical courses. The University's undergraduate course of medicine, he feels, is very well-designed. His own interest in anaesthesia was aroused when he was taking the clinical programmes. ALUMNI -25