were done jointly with the Hospital Authority (HA), who have invited us to join a dual-track appointment scheme that aims to address the manpower shortage in the local medical education and health systems. Special arrangements are being made for eligible candidates to work concurrently in both the HA and HKUMed. It is a win-win situation. The University itself has also recognised the need to recruit more practice-track professors, by increasing the cap on this group from 20 per cent to 50 per cent of our professoriate staff. This covers not only Medicine but also Chinese Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy and Public Health. New discipline-specific appointment and promotion criteria have been submitted to the Senate for approval, that more clearly sets out ‘clinical services’ to be a standalone area of achievement alongside research, teaching and learning, and knowledge exchange and services. Different levels of 21
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