Bulletin Autumn 1978

of one Pre-medical year, two Pre-clinical years, and three Clinical years. It should be explained that in the secondary education system in Hong Kong, there are two kinds of schools, known respectively as Chinese and Anglo-Chinese. Students from both streams are eligible to enter The Chinese University of Hong Kong after fulfilling its matriculationrequirements. medium of instruction but English is taught as a second language, on the other hand, in the Anglo- Chinese schools, English is used with Chinese taught as an optional language. Another difference is that students in the Chinese schools spend only one year in the Sixth Form whereas those in the Anglo-Chinese schools spend two years. For admission into the medical school students from the Chinese schools will have to enter the Pre-medical year as they will be required to study physics, chemistry and biology for one more year. However, direct admission into the Pre-clinical year will be considered for students in the Faculty of Science who wish to transfer to medicine, and for science graduates and students who have done exceptionally well in the Advanced Level Examination after two years in the Sixth Form. Throughout the entire course, English will be used in teaching. Following the usual practice, graduates will have to serve a year of internship in an approved hospital, of which their own teaching hospital will be one. Physical Plant Coming back to the physical plant: the plans for the Basic Medical Sciences Building and the teaching hospital have already been completed. The Basic Medical Sciences Building will be built adjacent to the Science Centre of the University, where among others the Departments of Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Biochemistry are situated. In this building, the Pre-clinical Departments of Anatomy, Physiol further space will be allocated to the Department of Biochemistry. There will be the usual facilities: lecture rooms, offices, research laboratoriesmulti-disciplina which has been formed by reclamation about five miles from the campus. It will have some 1,400 beds, to be divided among the various specialities. The Department of Pathology will be situated in the hospital building complex. A separate building which will be an extension to the hospital, and designated as the Clinical Sciences Building, will provide offices and research laboratories for the clinical academic staff and lecture and seminar rooms for the students. Besides, there will be an out-patient clinic where the clinical staff will see cases referred to them and hold teaching sessions as well. In addition to quarters for the medical and nursing staff, it is proposed to build a student hostel where final year students will be accommodated so that they can attend hospital practice on a 24-hour basis for elective periods. There will be a Library in the Clinical Sciences Building for both staff and students. Provision for the use of audiovisual computerisation of hospital records will be made. It is estimated that these two building projects will cost about HK$500 million, including equipment. For the Government to give the University earmarked grants to cover the capital cost of the Basic Medical Sciences Building, and the Clinical Sciences Building in the hospital complex, and to meet the recurrent expenditure of the after teaching commences. As the teaching hospital is in fact the Government regional hospital for the East New Territories region, it will be included in the public works programme to be financed by the Government. Staffing I now turn to the staffing of the new school, particularly in the clinical departments at the hospital. There will be both academic and Government staff, thus the Professors and their Senior Lecturers and Lecturers will provide the services besides teaching, while the Government doctors will be honorary lecturers 15 chairs covering both pre-clinical and clinical subjects. staff, especially the chair-holders, will have to be recruited from abroad. To recruit them, the net will be cast widely and it is hoped that the challenge a d the opportunity will attract the best people. The compilati n of the curriculum w ll be lef to the appointees but it is the Advisory Committee's wish that renovations should be introduced within reasonable limit studies attempted as far as p ssible. Aim of School Having recapitulated our progress up to the present moment, I would now like to define the aim of the school, which will be the guiding principle for future development. Our objective is to give the 15