Vice-Chancellor's Report 1978-82

that all medical students, including Advanced Level candidates entering Pre-Clinical Year One direct, would benefit from this form of education during their University years. A Senate Committee on Medical Admissions was established to recommend guidelines and oversee the admissions policy of the Faculty of Medicine. Applicants from both the internal and external streams made up the bulk of applications for admission to Pre- Clinical Year One for academic year 1981/82. A total of over 600 applications were received and 60 students, including two degree holders, were admitted. The Faculty of Medicine was highly successful in the recruitment of foundation chairs for the Pre-Clinical departments as well as the Clinical disciplines. A l l staff of the Faculty are accommodated in the Basic Medical Sciences Building which was com pleted in late 1980 and was named the Choh-Ming Li Building for Basic Medical Sciences in honour of the founding Vice- Chancellor. Site formation for the Prince of Wales Hospital had been completed in 1980 and construction work progressed smoothly up to the end of this period. Following the admission of students, teaching in the Faculty of Medicine commenced in September 1981. The Board of Pre- Clinical Studies was officially constituted in September 1981 and included those departments in the Faculty which are responsible for teaching in the first two years of the Medical course. During this first year, the Board devoted much of its time to the development and implementation of the Pre-Clinical Programme. This involved detailed planning of the curriculum and timetable, together with the examination procedures leading to the first professional examination to be held in April 1983. From the very beginning of its existence, it was recognized that postgraduate teaching and research would form an integral part of the Faculty of Medicine's activities and provisions had been made for these in the form of a postgraduate programme in the Basic Medical Sciences consisting of M.Phil, and Ph.D. programmes which would be implemented in September 1982 under the guidance of a Graduate Studies Panel. Also, a number of interdepartme and inter-faculty research projects had commenced and many Board members presented their work at international conferences. In July 1978, the Faculty of Medicine hosted a seminar on recent developments in medical education. The proceedings of this seminar were compiled and edited by the Dean of 17