HKUMed Undergraduate Prospectus

LIFE AT HKUMED STUDENT WELLNESS Your well-being is one of the Faculty’s top priorities. The Student Wellness Team comprises Psychiatrists, a Clinical Psychologist, Registered Social Workers and an Expressive Arts Therapist who are available on the Medical Campus to provide convenient, confidential and free clinical services. These include individual counselling, consultation, crisis intervention, diagnostic assessment, group therapy, psychoeducational programmes, and brief psychotherapy. The Team also strives to help you to thrive in the academic environment, through outreach activities and workshops designed to raise mental health awareness and strengthen resilience. ACADEMIC ADVISING A University-wide Academic Advising System has been established to provide you with support in the pursuit of your academic, career and life goals and help you develop plans to achieve these goals. Through the process, you are empowered to think critically, explore available options, evaluate the progress towards your own goals, and take personal responsibility for decision-making with the guidance of teachers and academic advisors. ACCOMMODATION You may apply to stay in one of the residential halls, which are situated on the main campus, Pokfulam Road, Lung Wah Street and Sassoon Road. These halls and residential colleges vary in style and character. Most of the study-bedrooms are shared by two students but there are also single rooms. Two residences are under the Faculty’s management: the Madam S H Ho Residence for Medical Students (RMS), which accommodates 163 students in single rooms, and the Patrick Manson Student Residence (PMR), which accommodates 124 students in shared bedrooms. Senior medical students undergoing clinical training at Queen Mary Hospital are required to stay at RMS or PMR during specific specialty clerkships. These residences allow more medical and nursing students to be close to QMH for their clinical training. SERVING THE COMMUNITY Under healthcare profession training, you will be able to learn and serve in the public setting. The experience goes beyond classroom as you will be exposed to various opportunities to volunteer in healthcare-related activities and contribute to the greater community. Over thousands of local citizens are benefited annually from free health checks and health awareness campaign organised by the Health Committee and Health Exhibition of Medical Society, HKUSU. The underprivileged community in particular enjoyed health-oriented services provided by Prime Care (HK), HKUSU as well. The Faculty also collaborates with different society stakeholders to engage more students volunteering in community services and taking part in local/ international health workshops/ conferences. All undergraduate students of HKUMed are paired with an Academic Advisor. The one-on-one advisor-advisee relationship lasts for the entire period of study. To cater for the special curriculum structure of the MBBS programme, you will first be taken care of by a non-clinical teacher as Faculty Academic Advisor in Year 1 until the end of Year 3 study, followed by a clinical teacher as Clinical Academic Advisor when proceeding to Year 4 until graduation. 73 72