EY1920 Year Book

179 178 Tsang Hon Ting Terence Semester 1 Semester 2 Semester 3 Sept 2019 Dec 2019 Aug 2020 May 2020 I have chosen to study Master of Public Health in HKU for my enrichment year which is a full-year intercalation degree and chosen Control of Infectious disease (CID) as my concentration. Below is what I have learnt. Core courses CID courses CID courses • Basic principles of public health • Study public health problem • Planning, implementation and evaluation of intervention • Learning health policies and healthcare system • Health communication • Locally and globally important public health issues • Basics of Epidemiology and biostatistics • Tackling infectious disease by considering One Health Approach (Environment, Animal, Human) • Concepts of infectious disease epidemiology, and methods for surveillance and control • Studying CID from public health perspective and basics • Studying common endemic and epidemic infectious diseases • Understanding risk perception and risk communication • Learning biostatistics and epidemiological analytic skills for real practice and outbreak investigations Practicum Capstone • Program Assistant in Hong Kong Adventist Hospital • Off-site work: community wellness proposal and produce videos related to healthy lifestyle behaviours • Capstone project on topic related to infectious disease • Review literature, analysing data and interpreting results to produce product useful for external stakeholders Apart from enriching academic knowledge, I learnt to… Of course, much more to do to enrich myself! Exercising Exploring new interest Self- travelling during sem break Acquiring knowledge other than medicine Correlating what I have learnt to real life situation Meeting new people, getting inspiration •Meeting people of different background/ different professionals, cooperating as a team Collaborate with different people • Learning new subject and acquiring new knowledge, with new colleagues and friends Adapting to new environment • New knowledge and ideas would not appear themselves, but require self-initiative to learn Perseverance Utilizing what I have learnt in CID to better understand the global public health crisis – COVID-19 pandemic MBBS Enrichment Year 2019/20 Tsang Hon Ting Terence Full Year < IC - MPH at HK U, H o ng K o ng >