HKUMed UG Prospectus 2020

14 The Enrichment Year (EY) is a credit-bearing component giving each MBBS III student the means to take charge of your learning and tailor activities to your interests and desires. EY is specially designed to facilitate the enhancement of your total learning experience. You will be able to formulate your EY through three different categories! Service Humanitarian Work, Research Attachment and Intercalation. Year 3: Enrichment Year You may take part in a humanitarian relief mission at remote locations, experience medical camps in under-developed countries, or work locally with 5.Os via Service Humanitarian Work. For those with investigative minds, research internship locally in HKU or internationally at world class laboratories fit perfectly with Research Attachment. Through Intercalation, you are able to enjoy electives or minors at HKU or full-year articulation studies at overseas renowned universities. Our Enrichment Year is aligned with HKU’s overall goal to promote internationalisation, innovation and interdisciplinarity. Internationalisation ࠮ Overseas exchange studies ࠮ Humanitarian work overseas ࠮ Voluntary servicing programmes outside Hong Kong Innovation ࠮ Research internship locally or internationally ࠮ Self-initiated attachment to world renowned laboratories and clinical facilities to partake in research activities Interdisciplinarity ࠮ Common Core courses offered by the University ࠮ Inter-faculty electives offered by other Faculties of HKU ࠮ Intra-faculty electives from the programmes of B7harm, BBiomedSc, BChinMed, B5urs and or BASc(.HD) ࠮ ¸Medical Scholars 7rogramme” to read for an intercalated Master programme 7rofessor .ilberto 3eung Associate Dean (Teaching 3earning) “The Enrichment Year programme is the first of its kind in the world. One of the main purposes is to allow our students to gain a broader experience about the human condition. We would like them to see something outside the hospitals, about how people actually live, and how they struggle with life’s problems.”