Medical Education

12 May 2013

A shortage of human cadavers for the city's medical schools has been eased by an unusual offer - free scattering of your ashes when you die if you agree to donate your body for study.

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Teaching hospital could have fixed ills of Hong Kong's Chinese medicine

8 Apr 2013

Chinese medicine is gaining worldwide acceptance. In fact, in Hong Kong, there are over 50 modernised Chinese medicine clinics employing registered practitioners, and the Hospital Authority's 16...

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University urges public to donate bodies for research and teaching

4 Mar 2013

The medical faculty receives only three to five donated corpses each year. Many of the 20 corpses needed for research and autopsy training come from the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department...

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Better pay, faster promotions for doctors to remain in public hospitals

13 Aug 2012

Doctors at public hospitals are being offered fast-track promotions and extra cash for emergency ward duty to stop their exodus to the private sector.

10:24AM

Doctors feeling the pain

25 Jul 2012

A family tragedy led Zhang Jing, 30, into medicine. Her grandfather in Shandong died of a heart attack and could have been saved if someone in the family had recognised the symptoms.

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Interns must become the architects of their own destiny

15 Jul 2012

Each year I receive several requests for reference letters in support of students' applications for internships and summer jobs. A summer internship allows students to check out a career path that...

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Opinion

Alex Lo

A dangerous demagogue in our midst

4:18AM

Jake Van Der Kamp

Ferry subsidies to push rents up further

4:27AM

Medical Council can be more open on licensing HK doctors who trained abroad

The discussion on limited registration for Hong Kong citizens who have trained in respected medical schools abroad has gone quiet but it has not and must not be allowed to go away.

6:53PM

A dying profession

Young doctors are increasingly turning away from the more important fields of medical science to embrace the easier and more lucrative areas of plastic surgery and anaesthesiology.

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1:41PM

Doctors can't just look after their own

A scheme by private doctors to alleviate a shortage of 200 medics in public hospitals and head off the employment of foreign-trained doctors has been a disappointment. Medical Association...

6:12AM

Foreign doctors are a cure, not a curse

When a young Hong Kong-born neurosurgeon from a pre-eminent medical school in Britain cannot practise in Hong Kong, you know something is rotten in the state of the medical profession here.

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5:07AM

Don't be fooled by local doctors' gripes

Many local doctors who spent half their life in school to qualify for their licence to practise medicine think they have the God-given right to milk the system for the rest of their lives.

4:42AM

Entry bar for doctors must be seen to be fair

When I was in the US for specialist training in the 1970s, my competency in the practice of medicine was always suspect because I graduated from a medical school in the East.

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