Call for mainland doctors to learn from HK
A call for mainland doctors to learn from the professionalism of their Hong Kong counterparts has accompanied the announcement of a project in which the two will co-operate.
In July and August a team of delegates from Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) will go to Shanghai and Beijing to work out the details of the project - scheduled to begin on 1 July next year.
Professor Chen Lezhen, chairman of the Department of Pathology at Chinese PLA General Hospital, said China's doctors should learn from the professional attitude of Hong Kong's doctors, especially pathologists.
'I'm very impressed by the professional attitude of the doctors that I have met in Hong Kong. It is something that I will highlight to my medical colleagues in the mainland when I get back,' Professor Chen said at the opening of the first Summer School for Chinese Pathologists at CUHK.
She said medical staff in Hong Kong had access to abundant reference books and there were plans for China's experts to share these resources.
More than 40 senior pathologists from Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Tianjin and Chengdu are in town for the summer course which ends on Saturday and is funded by the Fok Ying Tung Foundation.
Professor Joseph Lee Chuen-kwun, dean of medicine at CUHK, said mainland pathologists lacked in-depth research to back up their work even though they had good medical services.
'Internationally, medical terms in pathology change all the time and the mainland pathologists can't keep up with it,' he said.
Professor Lee said next year's project would look at microscopic images via satellite.
