Hong Kong’s specialist medical training school plans to slash two years off the course for family doctors to attract more students.
These new recruits would strengthen the role of preventative primary care in the city, easing the burden on overstretched public hospitals that are a drain on taxpayers.
Dr Donald Li Kwok-tung, president of the Academy of Medicine, said many young doctors shunned family medicine for more lucrative branches of the profession and the government had failed...
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