The Academic Development Of Shanghan Study In Hong Kong Since 1842

Objective:Hong Kong has experienced the colonial era of British imperialism, and the unprecedented one country, two systems. As such, Hong Kong has a unique value in modern Chinese Medicine history research. The focus of this study is on how the Shanghan study could develop during the time since the Qing government ceded Hong Kong to the British government that put emphasis on Western medicine. This study will cover the evolution of the health care system in Hong Kong since the early days, and will address also the situation of Chinese medicine during the period of Japanese occupation in Hong Kong. Certainly not missing, it will highlight the establishment of the working group of Chinese medicine in 1989 by the Administration, and the starting of registration of Chinese medicine practitioners in the year of 2000. The objective of this study is to provide thoughts for further research and development of Shanghan study through the collection, collation and discussion of data of academic information, clinical experience and interviews with famous physicians and experts.Method:Through literature review, this study will give a detailed description of the research and development in Chinese medicine in Hong Kong under the rule of British imperialism, including the theories and ideas of five physicians who migrated from Guangdong into Hong Kong that impacted greatly on Shanghanlun. At the same time, this study will introduce the academic achievements of those institutions that contributed to the research of Shanghanlun in Hong Kong, including the three government accredited universities that provide Traditional Chinese Medicine degree programmes, viz the University of Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University. Of course, this study will cover those folk institutions that had done some researches on Shanghanlun. Introduction and discussion on the academic research, clinical epidemiological research, its self-developed Shanghan related theories, clinical and experimental research results of these institutions were reviewed. Interviews will be conducted on three local physicians who are with at least two decades of practice experience (both in Hong Kong or in the mainland) and mainly using prescriptions from Shanghanlun as their major approaches in consultation. It would be an advantage if they had conducted Shanghanlun related researches and studies as well as published relevant books and literature. The interview shall give an account on their practice experience, academic achievement, literature, clinical cases and the use of prescriptions. Most of the registered practitioners in Hong Kong were qualified by passing the registration examination. This type of practitioners together with those registered practitioners with limited requirements, who are employed to conduct clinical research and teaching in Hong Kong, are graduates from local and mainland universities of Chinese medicine. And, listed practitioners were found to acquire their professional knowledge through artisanship, inherited from ancestors, and without a recognized qualification. As there is an academic training difference between these two groups of practitioners, it is anticipated that there will be a difference in the application of Shanghan related prescriptions between them. And, this difference might give insight to the development and prospect of Shanghan study in Hong Kong. In order to better understand the development of Shanghanlun in Hong Kong, investigation will be conducted on these two groups of practitioners. Investigation results from these two groups of practitioners will be compared with a view to finding the factors that impacted their use of Shanghan related prescriptions. As such, this study will conduct an extensive and in-depth survey by issuing questionnaires to a randomly selected sample from the total population of both 5,619 registered and 2,847 listed Chinese medicine practitioners in Hong Kong. Data so gathered will be processed by statistical methods so as to investigate the exact and latest situation as well as future development and vision of Shanghan study in Hong Kong.Result:Through the gathering of historical data and literature, this study shall depict the research and development of Shanghan study in Hong Kong since the signatory of the Treaty of Nanking, including the attitude of the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, a hospital that could be best represented the development of Chinese medicine in the colonial era, towards Shanghan study. Meanwhile, with the theories and ideas of five physicians who were migrated from Guangdong to Hong Kong, we could have a glimpse into the rise and fall of Shanghan study under British rule. In addition, the information and data collected through interviews to three local physicians, and the above mentioned extensive and in-depth survey, by and large, truly reflecting the applications as well as the latest situation, the future development and the vision of Shanghan study in Hong Kong.Conelusion:1. In the colonial era of Hong Kong, Shanghan study failed to bear achievement.2. Hong Kong is the only undeveloped region on Shanghan study in China and therefore with great potential in such development.3. Since 1998, local universities became involved in Chinese medical training. Academic training made local physicians attach importance to Shanghan study.4. The future development of Shanghan study depends on the following factors:â‘ To increase study hours to Shanghan study in university courses.â‘¡To set up clinical practice base for Shanghan study. â‘¢The Hong Kong SAR Government should inject resources on Shanghan study, so that Chinese medicine degree programmes would have same level of subsidies vis-a-vis other university degree programmes. Teaching hospitals and the Department of Shanghan Study are to be establishd as well as organizing postgraduate programmes.â‘£Organizing exchange programmes with mainland experts of Shanghan study.