M. A. Conference in Peking 1913 does not quite express the mind of many missionaries who are engaged in hospital work and incidentally in the work of training their pupil-helpers in the sciences and art of Western medicine. To work up to the standard set forth by Dr. Wu, the standard recognizable by the Chinese Government as in the Peking Union Medical College, a staff of fifteen teachers would be required (Peking has that number, Edinburgh University has that number of professors besides many other assistants and lecturers, Hongkong College of Medicine in 1909 had eighteen lecturers and tutors). One speaker at the Peking Conference said: "Good medical instruction can be given with a staff of but five or six foreigners land three or four Chinese." From reports of some of the smaller oolleges and practical experience with men trained in them, one can believe that good medical instruetion—of a kind—can be given; and to judge from Indian experience one can believe that for this kind there is in China a very real need. In the British Medical Journal of August 15, 1908, p.388, a writer save, "it is not more medical col-Neges for the higher education of superior class of doctor which are needed in India, but more medical schools giving a thoroughly good education to the more humble class of Hospital Assistant", and again "there is a very large and increasing demand, both for Government employment and for private quirements, for the services of medical men of this class."
In India there is a definite Government "Indian Subordinate Medical Department" with two grades, Assistant Surgeon and Hospital Assistant.
'The Assistant Surgeons, civil, train at their own cost, the military, at Government expense, in both' cases after passing an examination in general education. Professional education is for four years, and the qualification is "not below Licence in Medicine and Surgery" of an Indian University. What this standard amounts to ed be gauged by the career of the late D: Laleacca who qualified Bombay in 1854, as L.R.C.P. Land. in the same year, and the following year M. D. Brussels. Up to the time. of the establishment of the Hongkong University, when it was arranged that the medical degrees should qualify for the Briti Medical Register. Hongkong ga only a diploma of "Licentiate in Medicine and Surgery." The standard of Hongkong at that time was probably as high as that of any other medical school in Chins.
Those medical schools which are not able to train up to Chinese Government standard, as laid down by Dr. Wu Lien-teh in his Memorandum
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