College says specialist training could be model for other nations
The College of Surgeons of Hong Kong is developing postgraduate training, examinations and accreditation it hopes will be a role model for other countries.
The college severed its link with the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in Britain earlier this year after 30 years of following the British surgical training and examination system.
In the past, doctors who wanted to develop a speciality in surgery had to pass two years of basic training and a membership examination before moving on to another four years of higher training and then sitting an exit examination to be awarded a fellowship.
The examinations were organised by the fellows of the local college and the Edinburgh college.
However, Britain pushed through medical reforms last year in which the membership examination was cancelled and the surgical training was shortened to four years.
