The Dean’s Letter 2023 Moving with the Times I start with good news. Over the past few months, the Faculty has had some very encouraging feedback about the quality of our teaching and research. In September, the Medical Council of Hong Kong (MCHK) conducted its regular review of the MBBS programme and gave glowing initial feedback about our facilities and our students. Although the full report is not yet available, the signs are that the MCHK believes we are progressing in all the right directions in training the healthcare professionals of tomorrow. With that, I wish to thank all members who were involved in the exercise and helped to showcase our strengths. The details will follow, but let me highlight two things that this feedback reveals. First, we do not cease to stay abreast of new developments and find opportunities to lead the way, most recently with Generative AI (GenAI). I will give a more detailed account on this below. Second, our achievements are made possible because of the hard work and commitment of our staff and students. As a Faculty, we cultivate this commitment by putting people first – whether they are new or existing staff, new or existing students or, like yourselves after today, alumni of HKUMed. We look after all of our relationships and all of our people, and I hope our new graduates will view today not as an end, but as the beginning of the next stage of your journey with the Faculty. Having said that, there are a number of opportunities and challenges ahead of us. Our success will depend as much on how we tackle them as what we do. We have therefore adopted a bottom-up approach that involves input from both students and staff – from our people at all levels – on everything from figuring out the best way to incorporate new technologies into the classroom, to identifying new collaboration points among disciplines. This input is helping my team and I to develop forward-looking strategies and deepen our networks across Hong Kong, the region and the world – including with our alumni – so that we can strengthen the impact of our work. 4
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