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Vol. 19 Issue 1 Mar 2014 THE UNIVERSITYOFHONGKONG FACULTY ADDRESS FACULTY SPEECH BY DR KO WING MAN AT AT MAN WING KO DR BY SPEECH THE FACULTY GRADUATION 2013 GRADUATION FACULTY THE STATE OFTHE STATE BY THEDEAN CONTENTS 1 CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE EDITOR’S NOTE 2 FEATURE Welcome to the March 2014 issue of Medical • State of the Faculty Address by the Dean Faculty News. 7 SPOTLIGHT • Speech by Dr Ko Wing-man at the Faculty What stands out in this issue is the dynamism of our Graduation 2013 community as we stand at the frontiers of learning, 11 THE FACULTY IN 2013 discovery and community engagement. 12 EDUCATION MATTERS • 2013 Frontiers in Medical and Health Sciences We celebrate the graduation of the latest generation Education of scientists, doctors and healthcare professionals “From Classroom to Clinic: Opportunities and now entrusted with the well-being of our society. Challenges in e-Learning” Our Dean, Professor Gabriel M Leung（梁卓偉）, 13 INSIDE THE FACULTY congratulated the graduands at the Graduation and 18 NEXT GENERATION Prize Presentation Ceremony and, for the first time 21 ALUMNI NEWS on that occasion, made the State of the Faculty Address 2013 outlining plans that will enrich our 25 PEOPLE students’ learning and sustain our leadership in 26 CONGRATULATIONS research and clinical practice. This includes recent 28 MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS and forthcoming reviews of admissions, teaching and learning, research, as well as human capital and 29 IN REMEMBRANCE & CORRECTIONS major infrastructure developments. 31 FORTHCOMING EVENTS & DONATIONS Graduation is an occasion to reflect on the work accomplished by our graduands and those who have taught them. You will read, in our Spotlight, the speech by the Guest of Honour Dr Ko Wing- man（高永文）, who shared his inspiring thoughts on what it means to practise in medicine and healthcare in Hong Kong today. Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong Tel: 2819 9175 There is much our students and graduates have Fax: 2974 0678 accomplished, following in the footsteps of their E: [email protected] W: www.med.hku.hk predecessors. This can be seen in the many achievements reported in this issue, in Next Generation, Inside the Faculty and Alumni News. EDITORIAL TEAM Editor-in-Chief Before you turn the page, the Editorial Team would Ms Jeannie Tsang Wing-shi（曾詠詩） like to congratulate you on your endeavours and Advisory Board wish you many more successes and happiness in the Dr Janice Tsang Wing-hang（曾詠恆） Year of the Horse! Dr Chan Lap-ki（陳立基） Dr Kevin Lau Chung-hang（劉仲恒） Miss Chan Ho-yan（陳皓欣）, MBBS III Mr Chan Tsz-tai（陳子泰）, MBBS III Mr Jeffrey Chau Hung-kit（周鴻傑）, MBBS III Publishing Editor Miss Sandra Fung So-hing（馮素卿） Graphic Design Visionguard CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE MEDICAL FACULTY NEWS 1 FEATURE STATE OF THE FACULTY ADDRESS BY THE DEAN Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, held the Faculty Graduation and Prize Presentation Ceremony at Queen Elizabeth Stadium on November 28, 2013. Dean of Medicine, Professor Gabriel M Leung (梁卓偉), delivered the State of the Faculty Address to inform his audience of the latest achievements and future plans of the Faculty. r Ko (Wing-man), Dr (York) Chow, Professor (Sophia) First, allow me to address the raison d’être of any university – Chan, Vice-Chancellor, Pro-Vice-Chancellors, teaching and learning. At the beginning of the academic D colleagues, graduands, parents, distinguished guests, journey is the recruitment of the incoming class of students. ladies and gentlemen, We believe in a deliberate and proactive approach. Our overriding aim is to attract the very best individuals, and to As regular attendees of these annual graduation rituals will create the best incoming class as a whole. An example is attest, this “State of the Faculty Address” by the Dean is a the new admission policies across our five undergraduate novel insertion to an already very long set of proceedings. programmes I recently announced at the University’s For this I apologise and beg your indulgence. I believe in Information Day on November 9. To briefly recap, for our transparent governance, I believe in open communication, I flagship MBBS programme, we will be offering the all-new believe in being held accountable. Therefore I now lay before “inter-professional double degree track” where students can you, on behalf of the Faculty’s leadership, our thoughts and opt to read a Master of Public Health or a degree in Laws plans for the 2013-4 academic year. intercalated with the MBBS programme. To encourage this the Faculty will be sponsoring scholarships that will cover the To preface, the following is the culmination of detailed additional cost over and above the standard undergraduate consultation over the last few months, with a dozen annual fee. Another option is the well-established and undergraduate and postgraduate student groups, professoriate renamed “Medical Scholars Scheme” where students after staff in each individual department, and every head of their fourth year will proceed to an intercalated PhD at HKU, department or director of school. This represents our albeit with sponsored opportunities to spend a significant part collective wisdom, although responsibility for all errors and of their doctoral studies at an overseas institution. Previously misjudgements remain mine alone. students have attached to laboratories at Harvard, Yale, 2 MEDICAL FACULTY NEWS preparing students from all walks, centred around the patient and adopting a caring approach to all that we do. These qualities are actually the sine qua non of a good nurse. Once students are admitted, our duty as teachers is then to add maximum value to their total educational experience. In this respect, I am pleased to report our first exchange programme cum articulation pathway for students enrolled in the Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences course with the University of Edinburgh’s veterinary studies programme. Over seven years, successful students will acquire a state-of-the-science education in the fundamental biological sciences as well as a qualifying degree as a veterinarian. We are working hard towards expanding this pathway to include other health- related professional articulation programmes. When I first joined the Faculty in the late 1990s, we were intensively involved in developing the first problem-based learning medical curriculum in Asia that was launched on the Faculty’s 110th anniversary. As we approach our 130th celebrations, we will be taking the opportunity to refresh our teaching programmes at the systemic level. This comes on the heel of two major external review exercises, namely the Medical Council’s accreditation visit that took place last week and the upcoming Quality Assurance Council second audit Hopkins, Columbia, Oxford and Cambridge, among others. cycle next year. In preparing for these major exercises, we Alternatively, students may now immerse themselves even more will have identified areas for improvement and our external fully in two world-class laboratories by enrolling in one of three assessors will also highlight potential areas of concern. Taken joint PhD programmes between HKU and Imperial College, together with our routine internal feedback mechanisms London; King’s College, London; and the University of Toronto. of student evaluations and peer assessments, the external reports will form the lattice for curriculum redesign. This is To fulfil our societal obligation where an education at HKU’s a substantial process that will demand a huge amount of premier faculty can continue to be the great equaliser of time and energy from the entire teaching and administrative the lottery of birth and family background, the Faculty will staff over several years. I will update you from time to time be launching the “Springboard Scholarships” in the coming throughout this common endeavour. admission cycle. Up to 10 per cent of the incoming MBBS class, who have demonstrated extraordinary resilience to With the kind understanding and endorsement of the Vice- unusual circumstances of adversity, will be awarded one Chancellor and his Senior Management Team, we will finally of these full scholarships. Dr Chow, you will particularly be on the way to resolving the perennial shortage of student appreciate that this holds tremendous promise in encouraging residential places during the clinical years for both medical diversity and maintaining equal opportunities for all. and, for the first time, nursing students. In the short term, we will be looking to allocate more places at the Patrick We will also liberalise our admission requirements for the Manson residence as well as at Lung Wah Street Residential nursing baccalaureate programme, with aspiring secondary Colleges for this purpose. For the longer term, the University school applicants no longer being restricted to those has agreed to provide for a more permanent solution at the from the science stream. Our most outstanding nursing planned High West student residences. graduates throughout the better part of a decade and a half, many shepherded by Professor Chan, who are now nurse Turning now to research and discovery. Our researchers consultants, advance practice nurses and nurse managers, did continue to outperform: not necessarily come from an exclusively science background. • Several months ago, under the leadership of Professors In fact, our BNurs programme has always taken pride in Xu Aimin（徐愛民）and Karen Lam（林小玲）, our MEDICAL FACULTY NEWS 3 FEATURE Laboratory in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology received State followed by one Science, one Nature and four other Lancet Key Laboratory designation – the Faculty’s fourth. papers from the Faculty. Collectively, our colleagues literally • Vice-Chancellor, you will recall that we bore witness to defined the science of this new influenza strain, from the the signing of the signal collaborative agreement between virus’s evolutionary biology, to the clinical presentation Professor Lo Chung-mau’s（盧寵茂）Laboratory for to national policy formulation and evaluation.

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