Accreditation Visit by Hong Kong Medical Council Date: 10 – 11 November 2008 Visiting Team –Professor Rosie Young (Chairperson) –Dr Ching Wai Kuen (HA) –Mrs Eleanor Ling (lay member, HKMC) –Dr Hung Chi Tim (HKAM) –Professor Peter Rubin (UK) –Professor Richard Reznick (Canada)

Accreditation Visit by Hong Kong Medical Council They would like to see: –Our teaching facilities: library, lecture rooms, labs –Teaching departments –Family Medicine Unit and Primary Care Placement –Clinical wards They would like to meet: –Dean of Medicine, Dean of Graduate School and HCE (PWH) –1-2 Heads of departments –1-2 Consultants –Frontline staff of CUHK and HA –Students (all years) and interns –Recently graduated interns not working in PWH

Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Medicine No endeavor worth doing can be completed without cooperative effort [D Johnson] No endeavor worth doing can be completed without cooperative effort [D Johnson]

Professor T.F. FOK Dean, Faculty of Medicine CUHK Accreditation Overview CUHK Accreditation Overview

CUHK: Faculty of Medicine Founded in 1981 Foundation Professors

Mission and Vision CUHK Vision –To be acknowledged locally, nationally and internationally as a first-class, comprehensive, research university whose …. scholarly output and contribution to the community consistently meet standards of excellence Mission of the Medical Faculty –Serving the community through quality education, caring practice and advancement of health sciences

CUHK Faculty of Medicine – Departments and Schools Departments –Anaesthesia and Intensive Care –Anatomical and Cellular Pathology –Anatomy –Biochemistry –Chemical Pathology –Clinical Oncology –Community and Family Medicine –Diagnostic Radiology and Organ Imaging –Medicine and Therapeutics –Microbiology –Obstetrics and Gynaecology –Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences –Orthopedics and Traumatology –Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery –Paediatrics –Pharmacology –Physiology –Psychiatry –Surgery Schools –The Nethersole School of Nursing –School of Pharmacy –School of Public health

Teaching Staff of the MBChB Programme Full time teachers – 29 Professors of a subject – 57 Professor 1s or equivalent – 27 Professor 2s – 53 Associate Professors – 42 Assistant Professors as at 30 April 2008 Clinical (honorary)/Adjunct teachers – 1282 (for the 2007/2008 academic year) Basic Science 37 Pathological Science 25 Clinical 141 Others 5

Graduates (total 2795) Year Number of Graduates Present intake = 125

Main Campus

New Territories East Clustered Hospitals

MBChB Programme - Curriculum 2001 – Introduction of an “Integrated, system-based curriculum” Objectives: to ensure that our students obtain the essential knowledge, skills and attitudes for professional medical practice and life-long pursuit of medical education. Our graduates are expected to be able to: deliver effective and holistic care to their patients communicate effectively, compassionately and with good attitude with their patients make decisions rationally and ethically when faced with conflicting choices in the management of patients critically appraise available evidence so that they can apply the best treatment to patients have the skills for life-long learning to equip themselves with the new knowledge required for the provision of the best possible care to their patients

New Medical Curriculum