Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 1995

CUHK pharmacy interns in a sterile manufacturing suite supervision of a pharmacist in hospital (ideally including a three-month period in industry or community pharmacy). This internship year enables graduates to apply their undergraduate training to pharmacy practice in a working environment. The department prepares students and helps them obtain suitable internship posts. It has been entrusted by the Pharmacy and Poisons Board with the mandate for ensuring the proper training of these students, as well as monitoring their progress. The Current Status, and Future of Pharmacy at CUHK and at Large A considerable amount oftime and effort was (rightly) devoted to the development of the courses during 1992-3. Staffbegan to start research in the autumn of 1993, and are now engaged in high quality, innovative, CUHK-, Industry- and RGC-funded research, both in basic and applied pharmaceutical sciences, and in pharmacy practice. Papers in international refereed journals based on these investigations began to appear from the middle of 1994. This is a remarkable achievement, considering that almost all staff came from overseas into empty offices and laboratories in 1992! The current emphasis is on improving teaching and research quality. With funding being linked to both, staffin the department hope to provide initiative in these areas so as to ensure that the department improves its teaching performance and research output year after year. The department is at present: • strengthening and consolidating the present undergraduate curriculum in line with feedback from students and the external examiner; • developing amaster's degree programme in clinical pharmacy and an M.Phil. programme for introduction in 1996; 1995: An Important Year in the History of Pharmacy in Hong Kong 14