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20 Feature Expert Training Our academic contributions to the Mainland are by no means confined to research. The Faculty also has valuable experience in education and training that it is now sharing through the China Consortium of Elite Teaching Hospitals that was formed in 2015 to support the healthcare reform drive. The Consortium includes eight top teaching hospitals in the country plus HKU, and its job is to set standards, define competencies and serve as a national role model of residency education for the country. HKU has special expertise in this regard, given that Hong Kong has had its own training system since 1992 overseen by the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine, whose founding President was the late Professor Sir David Todd. “We have a quarter century of experience under our belt and we’re now contributing that expertise and our successes, but also our failures, to inform the national dialogue,” Professor Leung said. “There is also self-interest in our involvement because we will be able to ensure our training system is compatible with the national standards of professional qualification.” As an example of this engagement, HKUMed and the Academy co-hosted a training workshop at HKUSZH in December 2018 with the Chinese Medical Doctors Association on best practices in postgraduate medical education. The Elite Consortium has also been a vehicle for higher-level exchanges and engagement, such as the PUMC Hospital’s International Conference on Residency Education in 2018, where the Consortium Consensus on Core Competency Framework for Residency Education was released. All members, including HKU, collaborated to produce goals in six key areas: professional accomplishments, medical knowledge and expertise, care for patients, communications and co-ordination, teaching capacity, and lifelong learning. 1 2. 3