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14 The Faculty ofMedicine Today THE FACULTY of Medicine consists today of thirteen departments and three units. The departments are: Anatomy, Biochemistry, Community Medicine, Medicine, Microbiology, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Orthopaedic Surgery, Paediatrics, Pathology, Pharmacology, Physiology, Psychiatry and Surgery. The units are: Laboratory Animal Unit, Medical Illustration Unit and Postgraduate Medical Education. Also an integral part of the Faculty and its work is the Lee Hysan Medical Library. In addition, Queen Mary Hospital (QMH), the University's principal teaching hospital, is served by the University-run Hospital Pathology Service which embraces Pathology and Microbiology and the Clinical Biochemistry Unit. As described earlier, the Faculty effectively began life in 1887 as the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, a name later changed on incorporation in 1907 to the Hong Kong College of Medicine. When the University of Hong Kong came into existence in 1911, the College of Medicine became its premier and founding Faculty. The history of the Faculty in the years leading to the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong from late 1941 until 1945 was fraught with many vicissitudes, principally financial, but the Faculty nevertheless prospered in terms of the quality of medical graduates trained and given to Hong Kong and the Asian region. The history of the Faculty as it is today, however, begins with the reconstruction after the end of the Japanese occupation and is inextricably intermeshed with the rise of modern Hong Kong as a busy, bustling, heavily populated territory. All the departments in the Faculty are now situated in the Queen Mary Hospital (QMH) complex and in the adjacent Sassoon Road, though clinical teaching activities also take place in specialist hospitals such as the Tsan Yuk Hospital (Obstetrics and Gynaecology), the Grantham Hospital and the Tung Wah Group of hospitals. Prior to the opening of QMH in 1937, the Faculty's teaching was concentrated on the main campus and the adjacent hospitals. Whilst clinical teaching then shifted to QMH, the departments themselves remained on campus, however, until further development at QMH made it possible to regroup physically there. The first department to move completely was Pathology to a sorely needed new building in 1958. The pre-clinical departments moved to Sassoon Road, to the new Li Shu Fan 94 Constancy ofPurpose Building, in 1964 and proper accommodation for the clinical departments was finally provided in the 'Professorial Block' at QMH in 1967. Student numbers in the Faculty increased steadily until reaching the present intake of 150. The full-time teaching staff, 14 in 1913-1914, now stands at 201, with a large number of honorary clinical lecturers, practitioners from both the private and public sectors of practice. The technical and clerical support staff has also grown and the Faculty as a whole today bears a considerable responsibility for the day-to-day running of QMH. Anatomy The teaching of anatomy was one of the essential subjects in the curriculum of the College of Medicine and the Department of Anatomy became one of the founding departments of the Faculty in 1912. Until it moved to the Li Shu Fan Building in 1964, it was housed with the Department of Physiology on the main campus in the School of Anatomy and Physiology (later known as 'Building 17' and now demolished - see Appendix XV). The most significant past achievements took place during the tenure of the chair by the late Francis Chang (Professor and Head of Department, 1955-1969). He was responsible for the establishment of the Anatomy Museum which was considered to be the 'pride of the Faculty'. But more important and far-reaching was Professor Chang's work on growth of Hong Kong school children, undertaken with his wife and with the late Dr W.D. Low and Dr C.K. Ng,which is of immense significance. The work started by Professor Chang and carried on by Dr W.D. Low on child growth and development in Hong Kong has provided benchmarks for the correlation of the chronological and physical age of children which have been used in hospitals throughout Hong Kong. When Professor Peter Lisowski succeeded Professor Chang on his retirement in 1969, the Department consisted of eight senior teachers - one professor, two senior lecturers and five lecturers. There were in addition six demonstrators and fourteen technical staff. Today, the Department teaches not only the 300 first and second year pre-clinical medical students but also 60 first year dental students and the staff establishment is now 17 - one professor, six readers or senior lecturers, ten...

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