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

IMPORTANT NOTES

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Students should contact the relevant course coordinators for the examination timetables.

  4. 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

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Medicine

MMPH6196

Cell Metabolism

Semester 1

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 Disorders 1

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 Psychosis1 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 Management 1

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.