The Archive · 1916

Reorganization of Schools

Dr. 8. P. Chen of the Peking — Isolation Hospital, who, with Dr

Wu, is to of the staff of the National Hospital at Peking, and who is also a Cambridge man, prepared a paper which in his absence was read by Dr. Abel Tang. Dr. Chen classified the medical schools of China into those founded by the Government and those founded by missionary societies. He supported the proposal to have a uniform system of nomenclature in Chinese. In the meantime, the English language should d, but German should not be discouraged. A general examination should first be passed, and he proposed the following measure!

(1) Establishment of a Central Board of Control.

(2) Reorganization of existing schools.

(3) Well-equipped hospitals. (4) Provision for post graduate study.

Dr. J. W. H. Chun (Harbin) sent a paper on "Medical Education," which was read by Dr. E. B. Young (Changsha). He gave the latest list of medical colleges obtainable, and referred to the scheme of the Rockefeller Foundation, by which education of medical students and nurses might be improved.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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