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10 Feature Combining Chinese Medicine and German Culture Venice Ho Wing-tung ’s Enrichment Year will be nothing but eclectic. She will first spend a semester at the School of Chinese Medicine, doing research on the experimental combination of a Chinese medicine formula with chemotherapy in colon cancer treatment and writing a book chapter on the clinical efficacy of tyrosine kinase inhibitors in treating cancer. Then she will take a sharp turn in a different direction to study philosophy at Ludwig Maximilians Universitat in Germany, where she also hopes to improve her German, which she has been studying for several years. “During my first two years of medical studies, I have come to realise the importance of research and I have chosen to do research in Traditional Chinese Medicine because I believe it is particularly relevant to the Hong Kong context. My research professor assigned me the book chapter as well, which is certainly a challenge but I am very glad to have this opportunity. When I’m in Germany, I also hope to learn about the German healthcare system and technology, as well as learn more about German culture,” she said. I hope to gain practical and soft skills in developing research and, by going to Germany, to step outside my comfort zone and learn things I could never learn at home. ─ Venice Ho Wing-tung