FEATURE PARTNERSHIP & ENGAGEMENT: Building Bridges and Networks The success of HKUMed’s academic activities requires engagement and collaboration with the world beyond the campus and beyond Hong Kong. Identifying partners and collaborators has thus become a major area of focus at the Faculty, led by Associate Dean (Partnership & Engagement), Professor Ivan Hung Fan-ngai, who is supported by four Assistant Deans – Professor Yiu Kai-hang who is responsible for Mainland engagement, Professor Jasper Chan Fuk-woo for global engagement, Professor Winnie Tso Wan-yee for community engagement and Professor Patrick Chung Ho-yu for alumni engagement. ‘Partnerships are both germane and extremely important to our work,’ Professor Hung said. ‘Previously, we were doing this through the respective areas, for example, the research or teaching and learning sub-deaneries. But we realise we need a team to build networks and find appropriate and respected partners that can facilitate our work across all areas.’ Education partnerships are essential for providing medical and other students with placements during their enrichment blocks. ‘The Faculty already has arrangements with top institutes in the UK and US for Bachelor or Master intercalation programme, or research attachments, and is now trying to expand the network to other parts of the world to offer our Enrichment Year students an even wider range of choice,’ he said. HKUMed has also solidified partnerships in the Mainland as a member of the China Consortium of Elite Teaching Hospitals. It is now working within the consortium to help harmonise examination requirements and specialty training there, explore opportunities for HKUMedqualified graduates to work in the GBA, and develop postgraduate training programmes. ‘Currently, at the HKUShenzhen Hospital (HKU-SZH), we offer a PhD programme supervised by HKU professoriate and a very comprehensive specialist training for doctors who graduated in the Mainland. We hope to attract passionate doctors and graduates from our partner institutions to join HKU-SZH,’ he said. Community engagement is also important for student enrichment education. Professor Hung and his team are working with local NGOs, such as the →Education partnerships are being expanded to offer Enrichment Year students an even wider choice for intercalation programmes or research attachments. 18
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