Committee appointed to deal with medical schools, said that men had been nominated on that Committee who were outside, in Tespect, the interests of the different medical schools' and they had placed in their hands a very difficult problem. Thertfore, the Committee felt that the report would need a good deal of discussion, and. they suggested that a part of a session be devoted it. Finally, the Committe felt that, in bringing the report, they could not help grieving some of those whom they most honoured and respected, The report stated that in regard to the question of the location of medical schools, the immediate notice of Chinese students should be considered with special regard to the following geographical areas, viz, north, east, central, west and south, and that the ideal arrangement should be one school teaching in English and one teach ing in Chinese in each of those areas, it was recommended with re gard to the northern area that Po king was the most i: npo it with regard to the northern centres, and it should have a medical school which teaching was done through the medium of Ene'ish. Sindents desiring teaching through the medium of Chinese should join the schools in Mukden or Tsinay, With regard to the east, it yas re-; commended that, in the j of the Association, one medical cv1 lege teaching in English should be sufficient for this aren, They there-system which might' be pursued with fore recommended that the medical advantage were: (n) the investiga-colleges which were at present using tion of normal physical standards Enalish or which contemplated doing among Chinese: The need of careful so should. if possible. unite in form. studies along these lines had more ihe one strong union institution. than once been brought to the In case a college using Mandarin attention of the Association by Dr. was neede! in that area. the com-Duncan Whyte. (b)." to act asa mittee recommended that Nanking clearing house for those who were be the centre, but that careful con-working on special problems either sideration should be given ty the clinical or pathological, by provid- question whether those needs could tot be adequately supplied by the institutions at Tsinanfu and Han-show. The school at Changsha should be recognized as the English teaching school for the central area, and the Hankow school as the Chinese teaching school.
For the west, it was submitted that the school at Chengtu should be recognized as the centre for this area, and that the best method! fo~ teaching be decided by local conditions. In regard to the south, the report recommended that Canton be regarded as the natural centre for the development of a high grade medical college which would serve the southern provinces.
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