Programme Features

The MBBS curriculum is not only about training doctors but also personal development and fulfilment. Our programme provides you with ample opportunities for personal growth that will carry you well into your later years when you will serve and excel as responsible citizens, colleagues, teachers and friends within our profession and community. It is not without good reasons that many of the leaders in our field are HKUMed graduates!

Active and Student-centred Learning

Problem-based, small-group tutorials enable every student to participate and be active in managing their learning, and to examine and understand what and how they learn. These tutorials are also effective for developing your interpersonal communication and teamwork skills – how to argue, agree, disagree and agree to disagree.

E-learning

Students will be able to learn through a blended innovative approach in addition to conventional classes and small-group tutorials. Students will be given access to a range of e-learning resources which are supplemented by interactive forums where they will have plenty of opportunities to discuss clinical cases to strengthen their learning for application in clinical practice.

Early Clinical Exposure and Structured Acquisition of Clinical Interpersonal Skills

From as early as the first semester of Year 1, you will start learning the interpersonal and clinical skills necessary for effective and compassionate patient care. This exposure will gradually increase in terms of mastery and complexity. Much of the learning will take place in the purpose-built Clinical Skills Training Centre, assisted by a well-developed clinical skills e-platform.

Comprehensive Hospital-based and Community-based and Primary Care Experience

Alongside learning that takes place within hospitals, you will gain first-hand experience in a wide variety of community-based settings that involve family physicians, maternal and child health services, hospices and patient support groups. You will gain a holistic perspective on patient management and understand the importance of judicious use of health care resources and effective integration between primary and secondary care.

Focus on Medical Ethics and Humanities

Ethical principles and humanitarian values are absolutely essential for doctors to meet the needs and demands of 21st century healthcare. You will learn how these principles and values underpin health care practice, as well as your professional and legal obligations, through the medical ethics and medical humanities programmes.

Enrichment opportunities

Our programme goes well beyond vocational training. Your third year of study, which we call the Enrichment Year, will give you an unprecedented opportunity to explore areas of interest to you in either medical or non-medical fields, in Hong Kong or abroad, and design your own learning program (see more here). Similarly, in Year 6, after the final examination, the four-week-week MBBS Elective lets you delve into a medical area of your choice.

Practicing Scientific Research

Research is indispensable to the development of intellectual and analytical skills, essential for modern medical practice. We actively encourage you to undertake research that interests and excites you. You will participate in Health Research Projects that may lead to output in the format of a scientific journal. Your research can be clinical in orientation or laboratory-based, be part of a project led by Faculty staff members or initiated entirely by you, conducted always close supervision during the Enrichment Year/MBBS Elective.

Inter-professional Learning

Inter-professional education is an emerging and progressive area in modern health care where students will learn with and learn from those in other disciplines. This Faculty has taken the lead to introduce an inter-professional pathway so that medical, nursing, pharmacy students can have the opportunities to interact and to work with each other - much like the real-life situation after your graduation. For students with demonstrated academic potential and a genuine interest in developing inter-professional knowledge, skills, competence and expertise, the Faculty will offer them the opportunity to enroll in intercalated programmes, e.g. with Public Health, with the support of scholarships.

Meeting the Demands of Tomorrow

The curriculum is being constantly renewed in light of emerging knowledge and societal needs to ensure you training is fit-for-purpose and forward-looking.