The CUHK hosts one of the two medical schools in Hong Kong, with the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine

Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine

The Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong is the older of the two medical schools in Hong Kong , and is among the oldest in the Far East.-History:...

 at the University of Hong Kong hosting the other medical program.

CUHK offers an array of programs including the 5-year double degree undergraduate medical course, a nursing degree, and other postgraduate research degrees. Graduates from the CUHK Medical School are awarded the MBChB, the equivalent degree offered by HKU being the MBBS

MBBS

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. Both are based on the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 model for medical degrees.

Hong Kong's Prince of Wales Hospital

Prince of Wales Hospital

Prince of Wales Hospital is a major public and teaching hospital located in Sha Tin, New Territories in Hong Kong. The hospital is affiliated with the Medical Faculty of the Chinese University of Hong Kong....

 and other regional hospitals are affiliated with CUHK Medical School, with Prince of Wales Hospital

Prince of Wales Hospital

Prince of Wales Hospital is a major public and teaching hospital located in Sha Tin, New Territories in Hong Kong. The hospital is affiliated with the Medical Faculty of the Chinese University of Hong Kong....

 being the faculty's teaching facility and its base of research.

• Here is a list of departments at the CUHK School of Medicine.
• Additional links: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/medint/1clinic.htm

History

The CUHK Faculty of Medicine admitted its first batch of medical students in 1981. United Christian and Kowloon Hospital was the teaching facility of the Faculty prior to the opening of the Prince of Wales Hospital

Prince of Wales Hospital

Prince of Wales Hospital is a major public and teaching hospital located in Sha Tin, New Territories in Hong Kong. The hospital is affiliated with the Medical Faculty of the Chinese University of Hong Kong....

 in 1984. Intercalated Bachelor of Medical Science Degree was first introduced in 1989. The Bachelor of Pharmacy

Bachelor of Pharmacy

A Bachelor of Pharmacy is an undergraduate academic degree in the field of pharmacy. The degree is the basic prerequisite for registration to practice as a pharmacist in many countries. In some countries, it has been superseded by the Master of Pharmacy and Doctor of Pharmacy degrees...

 program was later introduced in 1992. The post-registration and undergraduate Bachelor of Nursing degrees were introduced in 1991 and 1995 respectively, and MPhil in Nursing was introduced in 1993. The department of Nursing was re-named as the Nethersole School of Nursing in 2002.

Highlights of Important Milestones

• 1990: Introduced Hong Kong's first leg-lengthening with Ilizarov technique
• 1991: Hong Kong's first paediatric bone marrow transplant
• 1992: Established world's first comprehensive and multi-functional Skin Bank
• 1992: Established Eye Bank
• 1992: Hong Kong's first paediatric autologous stem cell transplant
• 1994: Birth of Hong Kong's first baby from micromanipulation of human gametes (SUZI)
• 1994: Conducted Hong Kong's first paediatric autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplant
• 1996: Introduced deep brain stimulation for patients with Parkinson's disease
• 1997: Discovered a new iso-alpha foetal protein (AFP) using isoelectric focusing for diagnosing early stage liver cancer
• 1998: Conducted world's first endorectal pullthrough for total colonic aganglionosis in a neonate
• 1998: Developed spectral karotyping (SKY) for cancer genetics
• 1999: Performed world's first laparoscopic 95 per cent subtotal pancreatectomy in infancy

Administration

The first full-time Dean of Faculty of Medicine, Professor G. H. Choa, was appointed in 1977.

Currently, the Dean of Medicine is Professor FOK, Tai Fai, MBBS

MBBS

MBBS was a popular BBS system in the Nordic countries during the mid-1990s. It was created by a team of Oslo-based enthusiasts, led by Mike Robertson. As many BBS systems of that era, it was only available for the DOS platform. Since one process could only handle one node, multitaskers such as...

 (HK); DCH (Lond.); MD

Doctor of Medicine

Doctor of Medicine is a doctoral degree for physicians. The degree is granted by medical schools...

 (CUHK); MRCP

Membership of the Royal College of Physicians

Membership of the Royal Colleges of Physicians is a postgraduate medical diploma. The examinations are run by the Federation of the Medical Royal Colleges of the United Kingdom – the Royal College of Physicians of London, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and the Royal College...

 (UK), FRCPEd; FRCPCH; FHKAM (Paediatrics); FHKCPaed.