Faculty and Department Based Research Postgraduate Courses(Full List)

Research Postgraduate Courses (Full List) (2022/23)

IMPORTANT NOTES

All MPhil and 4-year PhD candidates are required to complete three Research Postgraduate courses of the Medical Faculty. For other requirements stipulated by the Graduate School, please visit the Graduate School website: https://gradsch.hku.hk/current_students/coursework/general_coursework_requirements.
Students who would like to take courses offered by other Faculties in lieu of the 3 required courses of the Medical Faculty are required to submit a formal application with endorsement from the Principal Supervisor to the Faculty Office in advance.
Students should contact the relevant course coordinators for the examination timetables.
Students who are interested in taking more Faculty/Departments courses than the minimum specified requirement will have to complete the Application Form attached and pay a special course fee of HK$200 per course.

Department	Course Code	Course Title (click the course titles for more info in pdf format) Download reader	Timetable (all timetables in pdf format) Download reader
Medicine	MMPH6196	Cell Metabolism	Semester 1
Medicine	MMPH6205	Current Therapeutic Strategies for Metabolic Diseases	Semester 2
Microbiology	MMPH6119	Current Topics in Medical Microbiology	Semester 1
Obstetrics & Gynaecology	MMPH6120	Assisted Reproduction Technology (Laboratory)	Semester 2
	MMPH6147	Research Seminars in Obstetrics and Gynaecology	Both Semesters (1&2)
	MMPH6186	Research Methodologies in Obstetrics and Gynaecology	Both Semesters (1&2)
Orthopaedics & Traumatology	MMPH6124	Basic Medical Bioengineering	Semester 1
Pathology	MMPH6001	Laboratory Methods and Instrumentation	Semester 1
	MMPH6016	General Cytopathology	Semester 1
	MMPH6020	Molecular Medicine	Semester 2
	MMPH6139	Techniques and Applications of Molecular Pathology	Semester 1
	MMPH6140	Molecular Genetics and Cytogenetics of Cancer	Semester 2
	MMPH6176	Current Topics and Techniques in Immunology	Semester 2
Pharmacology & Pharmacy	MMPH6127	Principles of Drug Action	Semester 1
	MMPH6128	Therapeutic Strategies for the Management of Cardiac and Respiratory Diseases	Not offered
	MMPH6129	Basic and Applied Toxicology	Not offered
	MMPH6172	Advances in Vascular Biology and Therapeutics	Semester 2
	MMPH6185	Advanced Drug Delivery and Drug Development	Semester 2
	MMPH6022	Therapeutic Antibodies	Semester 2
Psychiatry	MMPH6192	Course and Outcome of Psychotic Disorders ¹	Not offered
	MMPH6193	Critical Appraisal and Evidence-based Approaches in Psychosis ¹	Not offered
	MMPH6194	Neurocognitive of Dysfunctions in Psychosis ¹	Not offered
	MMPH6195	Neurobiological Processes in Psychosis ¹	Not offered
	MMPH6197	Clinical Decision Making in Psychotic Disorders¹	Not offered
	MMPH6198	Descriptive Psychopathology ¹	Semester 1 [Offered to Psychiatry, SClinMed only]
	MMPH6199	Early Intervention for Psychosis ¹	Semester 2
	MMPH6200	Introduction to Psychotic Disorders: Epidemiology and Aetiology ¹	Semester 1 [Offered to Psychiatry, SClinMed only]
	MMPH6201	Pharmacological Interventions for Psychosis ¹	Semester 2
	MMPH6202	Psychosis and Society: Stigma, Legal and Ethical Issues¹	Semester 2
	MMPH6203	Psychosocial Interventions for Psychosis ¹	Semester 2
	MMPH6204	Specialized Case Intervention for Psychosis¹	Not offered
Surgery	MMPH6138	Laboratory Animal Handling and Surgical Techniques	Semester 2
School of Biomedical Sciences	MMPH6005	Practical Bioinformatics	Semester 1
	MMPH6007	Advanced Cell Biology	Semester 2
	MMPH6008	Genes and Gene Functions in Diseases	Semester 2
	MMPH6009	Integrative Perspectives of Body Functions	Semester 2
	MMPH6011	Working with Genes and Proteins	Not offered
	MMPH6019	Advances in Cardiovascular Physiology	Not offered
	MMPH6134	Biomedical Sciences Seminar	Both Semesters (1&2)
	MMPH6149	Recent Advances in Biomedical Technology	Semester 2
School of Chinese Medicine	MMPH6187	Current Research and Development of Chinese Medicines	Semester 2
School of Public Health	MMPH6002	Introduction to Biostatistics ²	Semester 1 [Offer to MMedSc & SPH students only]
	MMPH6003	Introduction to Epidemiology	Semester 1 [Offer to MMedSc & SPH students only]
	MMPH6006	Evidence Based Practice	Not offered
	MMPH6106	Advanced Epidemiological Methods I ¹	Semester 2
	MMPH6107	Epidemiology of Important Health Conditions ¹	Not offered
	MMPH6108	Principles of Public Health ¹	Semester 1 [Offered to SPH only]
	MMPH6109	Health Behaviour and Communication¹	Semester 1
	MMPH6115	Health Leadership and Management ¹	Not offered
	MMPH6116	Health Economics ¹	Semester 2
	MMPH6117	Advanced Statistical Methods I ¹	Semester 2
	MMPH6141	Health and Society	Not offered
	MMPH6146	Health Policy and Politics ¹	Semester 2
	MMPH6150	Advanced Statistical Methods II ¹	Summer
	MMPH6154	Health Promotion and Health Education ¹	Not offered
	MMPH6157	Intermediate Epidemiology ¹	Semester 1
	MMPH6158	Perspectives in Health Care Management¹	Not offered
	MMPH6159	The Practice of Public Health ¹	Semester 2
	MMPH6164	Risk: Perception, Decisions and Communication ¹	Summer
	MMPH6167	Infectious Disease Epidemiology ¹	Semester 2
	MMPH6168	Infectious Disease Modelling ¹	Summer
	MMPH6170	Resources for Health	Summer
	MMPH6173	Personalised Public Health	Summer
	MMPH6177	Statistical Inference Using R	Not offered
	MMPH6178	Health Informatics	Summer
	MMPH6179	Public Health Leadership	Not offered
	MMPH6180	Public Health Law and Ethics	Not offered
	MMPH6181	Public Health Nutrition	Not offered
	MMPH6182	Health Communication	Not offered
	MMPH6183	Human Resources (HR) in Health Care Organisations	Not offered
	MMPH6188	Environmental Health Assessment	Not offered
	MMPH6189	Environmental Health Hazards and Interventions	Summer
	MMPH6190	Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology ¹	Not offered
	MMPH6206	Emerging Infectious Diseases and "One Health"	Semester 2
	MMPH6207	Infectious Diseases in Public Health	Semester 2
	MMPH6208	Measurement in Health	Not offered
	MMPH6209	Qualitative Health Research	Not offered
	MMPH6210	Advanced Epidemiological Methods II	Not offered
	MMPH6211	Molecular Epidemiology: Microbial Genetics and Evolution	Not offered
	MMPH6212	Bioethics Foundations	Not offered
	MMPH6213	Introduction to Medical Law	Not offered
	MMPH6214	Mental Disability and the Law	Not offered
	MMPH6215	The Beginning and End of Life	Not offered
	MMPH6216	The Legal Foundations of Global Health and Development	Not offered
	MMPH6217	The Physician-patient Relationship	Not offered
	MMPH6218	The Regulation of Biomedical Research	Not offered
HKU-Pasteur Research Pole	MMPH6171	HKU - Pasteur Virology Course ¹	Not offered
	MMPH6174	HKU - Pasteur Immunology Course ¹	Not offered
	MMPH6175	HKU - Pasteur Cell Biology Course ¹	Not offered

Note:

1. Approval from the Department must be sought prior to enrollment

2. For research postgraduate students in the School of Public Health, MMPH6002 Introduction to Biostatistics can be taken in lieu of Graduate School's Coursework Module 2: Introduction to Qualitive/Quantitive Research Methods but it will not be counted towards fulfilling the coursework requirement of 3 core courses of the Medical Faculty.