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The
Department through the allocation of the Faculty of Medicine,
HKU receives a number of interns for training every 3 months.
Although half of the group will stay for 6 months. They are
mainly allocated to general wards, and to specialty wards and
specialist outpatient clinics on a part-time basis. Specific
information on duties, leave and other arrangements will be
available upon report to duty.
Please
refer to the Faculty of Medicine homepage for other information
(website
: http://www.hku.hk/facmed/)
-
as per menu items: EDUCATION > INTERNSHIP >
Overseas
applicants are usually not accepted. Applicants
must have a primary medical qualification registrable by the
Medical Council of Hong Kong. Further information on licensing
procedures - please refer to the Medical
Council of Hong Kong homepage.
Physician
/
Residency Training
Posts in Internal Medicine
The
Department of Medicine is an accredited centre for structured
postgraduate medical training in internal medicine accredited
by the Hong Kong College of Physicians (HKCP) and is divided
into two stages:
- Basic
Physician Training (BPT)
in General Internal Medicine for 3 years followed by the joint
*Membership of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United
Kingdom (MRCP UK) / HKCP Intermediate Examination, and then
- Higher
Physician Training (HPT) in a medical specialty and/or
advanced training in Internal Medicine (AIM) for 3 or 4 years
followed by the HKCP Exit Assessment.
*
The MRCP (UK) examinations in Hong Kong are conducted and administered
by the Hong Kong College of Physicians, please contact them
for further information and enquires as per hyperlink below.
For
further information please refer:
The
Department is an accredited training centre in HPT in the following
specialties:
- Advanced
Internal Medicine
- Cardiology
- Clinical
Pharmacology & Therapeutics
- Critical
Care Medicine
- Endocrinology,
Diabetes & Metabolism
- Gastroenterology
& Hepatology
- Geriatric
Medicine
- Haematology,
Haematological Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation
- Medical
Oncology
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Rehabilitation
Medicine
- Respiratory
Medicine
- Rheumatology
& Clinical Immunology
Training
are undertaken at Queen Mary Hospital and medical units of the
Hong Kong West Cluster hospitals - Tung Wah Hospital, Grantham
Hospital and Fung Yiu King Hospital. Trainees are rotated through
all the clinical specialties and cluster hospitals during their
training period.
The
employment of training posts is centralised by the Hospital
Authority (HA) under the Contract Resident Programme. Please
refer to them for further information and application form -
http://www.ha.org.hk/
as per menu items: > Professional Resources > Professional
Training > Contract Resident Programme.
Elective
/
Residency Physician
Training
The
Department regularly receives and trains basic and higher physician
trainees from other hospital, on a reciprocal arrangement, for
training in general and specialist medicine and in Family Medicine
as short-term elective attachments. The arrangement for such
are made thru the chiefs of service or department / unit heads
of individual hospitals.
Overseas
applicants: please send application letter with full
CV addressed to Chief of Service, Department of Medicine, Queen
Mary Hospital, 102 Pok Fu Lam Road, Hong Kong.
Applicants
must have a primary medical qualification registrable by the
Medical Council of Hong Kong. Further information on licensing
procedures - please refer to the Medical
Council of Hong Kong homepage.
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