New Hong Kong DSE top scorers both have sights set on medical profession
Pair had their exam results upgraded after appealing their scores
Two talented Hong Kong students have had their Diploma of Secondary Education exam results upgraded, and both have said their own experience of physical and mental illness inspired them to strive to become doctors.
Bryan Fu Ting-hin, 17, from St Paul’s Co-educational College, and Chan Hiu-man, 18, from Tseung Kwan O Government Secondary School, each had one of their DSE exam subject results lifted from 5* to 5**, the highest possible mark, by the Authority of Examination and Assessment on Wednesday.
The remarking, prompted by appeals from the pair, brought the total number of DSE top scorers from nine to 11, including one super top scorer who got the highest mark possible for all eight exam subjects.
Fu and Chan were admitted into the medical school at the University of Hong Kong before they received their revised results.
“I was inspired to follow the path of Dr Tse Yuen-man – to be a doctor who really cares for the patients – after watching a documentary about Sars when I was in Form Three,” said Chan.
Sars, short for severe acute respiratory syndrome, was a deadly infectious disease that hit the city in 2003, killing 299 people out of 1,755 infected. Dr Tse, who was then only 35 years old, lost her life to the virus, while volunteering to work with the patients in a public hospital. The government offered Tse a hero’s burial and she was dearly remembered as “Hong Kong’s daughter”.