Bulletin Number Three 1984

Clinical Sciences Building in Use The Clinical Sciences Building, which came into use in January 1984 ， is an extension to the Prince of Wales Hospital in Siu Lek Yuen, Shatin, about 8 km from the University campus. Designed as a teaching hospital for The Chinese University, the Prince of Wales Hospital has over 1,400 beds, distributed among various specialities. Most of the academic departments are accommodated in this Building ， some being on the same level as their wards (or nursing units), thus forming a single unit within the whole. The departments accommodated in the Building are as follows: 1st Floor Chemical Pathology Microbiology Morbid Anatomy 4th Floor Surgery 5th Floor Orthopaedic and Traumatic Surgery Anaesthesia 6th Floor Paediatrics 9th Floor Medicine 11th Floor Psychiatry The Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology is housed separately in the Special Block, while the Departments of Clinical Oncology and of Diagnostic Radiology and Organ Imaging occupy different levels of the podium which forms the base of the entire hospital complex. The Clinical Sciences Building is fully equipped for clinical studies with the most up-to-date facilities for the sophisticated research interests of a professionally-oriented faculty. For each professor, there is a laboratory attached to his office. Two floors of the Building, the seventh and the tenth, are occupied by communal research laboratories, the Lee Hysan Clinical Research Laboratories. On these two floors, there are eight laboratories for general research, and others for special research such as a Tissue Culture Laboratory, a Centrifuge Laboratory, a Radio Isotope Laboratory and a Biochemical Laboratory. There are lecture/seminar rooms on each floor and a large 4-unit teaching laboratory on the first floor of the Department of Pathology. For the teaching of operative surgery, the operating theatres are equipped with close-circuit television. Other facilities located on the second floor of the Clinical Sciences Building, apart from seminar rooms, include a lecture theatre, the Li Ping Medical Library, a Medical Media Services Unit and a spacious student common room. The Li Ping library houses a collection of clinical books and journals and audiovisual software and provides Information Retrieval Services (MEDLINE). The lecture theatre with complete AV/TV installations has a seating capacity of 230. Adjacent to the Building is the Li Ka Shing Specialist Clinic, which functions as a consultation clinic where the clinical staff see cases referred to them and hold teaching sessions as well. Elsewhere in the hospital compound, there are quarters for the medical and nursing staff, and a medical students' hostel, the Madam S.H. Ho Hostel for Medical Students. This five-storey hostel, which is intended for final-year and obstetrics students, has sixty single rooms and twenty double rooms, with a common room, a small library and a study room on the ground floor. For the provision of the following facilities in the Clinical Sciences Building, generous donations were received from: Mr. Robert Li and Mr. Allen Li, $1.5 million to the Li Ping Medical library, Mr. Lee Wing Tat, $4 million to the Lee Hysan Clinical Research Laboratories, and the S.H. Ho Foundation, $4.5 million to the Madam S.H. Ho Hostel for Medical Students. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS 7