Hong Kong’s third medical school could adopt US-style curriculum to broaden recruitment
Health minister Lo Chung-mau says institution would likely focus on attracting those aiming for second degree and start with 50 students
Hong Kong’s third medical school could adopt a four-year US-style curriculum to broaden its source of students and start by training 50 per year, the city’s health minister has said.
“My expectation is if the recruitment targets and curriculum of the third medical school would be a US-style, second-degree four-year programme, the chance of admitting secondary school students would be lower,” Lo said. “They are likely to focus on admitting students [aiming for] a second degree.”
The government has spearheaded the progress of preparing the city’s third medical school by setting up a task group to look into the matter.
The group, co-chaired by Lo and education minister Christine Choi Yuk-lin, will devise the direction and parameters for the new medical school.
Lo said a graduate-entry curriculum would allow Hong Kong to have more routes to recruit students. Those admitted under this pathway tended to be more mature and would be more certain to complete the whole medical programme, Lo said.
