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Under the leadership of Dr William Wong Chi-wa i, Clinical Associate Professor at HKUMed and Chief-of- Service of HKU-SZH Department of General Practice (2018-21), the hospital was designated by Guangdong’s Health Commission as the Provincial Train-the-Trainer Centre for General Practitioners (GPs) in 2019. This is the only province-level training centre of its kind in Shenzhen and is authorised to issue trainer licences and certificates. More than 250 trainers had attended the centre’s courses with high satisfaction as of April 2021. The department also trains residents, typically those undergoing three years’ residency training in the hospital and community health centres. Last November the HKU-SZH was designated a Key Professional Base for Structured Residency Training to recognise its high standard and achievement since the hospital started its residency programme in 2018. It is now ranked among the top 10 General Practice residency training centres in the country and second in Guangdong province. The high standards and care model of the HKU-SZH FM Clinic has allowed it to make a special contribution during the COVID-19 pandemic. Its adult vaccine clinic is one of only two approved by the Shenzhen Municipal Health Commission, vaccinating 300-400 people per Feature Plus + day in its clinic and thousands out in the community, making it a model for promoting disease prevention as a critical component of healthcare in Shenzhen and the country. Dr Wong said, ‘Not only have we contributed to COVID-19 testing in the hospital, but also we surveyed GPs in Shenzhen on how they could help to further control the pandemic and are participating in an international consortium of over 72 million primary care patients in nine different countries to capture the effects of the global pandemic on patient care. We are also building an early warning system utilising big data and machine learning technology with the Chinese Academy of Sciences to identify novel or common infectious disease outbreaks through primary care.’ Looking ahead, Professor Lam said they hoped to build on their success in both clinical services and research. Currently, the clinic has 17 full-time doctors providing more than 100,000 consultations per year. ‘Our goal is to build a new and efficient system for the management of chronic diseases, to enable our doctors to carry out and publish on primary care research, and to promote public awareness of infectious disease and mental health, which is essential to safeguarding the health of people in the region,’ she said. Members of Department of General Practice at HKU-SZH 度㣐幀㖕ꄴꤎ猰ꄴ㷸鿈㕰꥙ 34