Calendar 2000–01

requirements. The teaching-learning environment is based on a 66-bed in-patient facility and out-patient facilities at the Prince of Wales Hospital and Sir Yue- kong Pao Centre for Cancer, linked to a broad range of services including medical- haematological oncology, radiation oncology, and palliative medicine. Research is focused on nasopharyngeal cancer, liver cancer, and anti-cancer agents. International collaborative research and clinical trials are facilitated by a dedicated Clinical Trials Unit. ! " Tel.: 2692 8786 Fax.: 2606 3500 E-mail: cfm@cuhk.edu.hk The department trains doctors who can provide evidence-based primary health care and public health services. Teaching in community medicine is focused on the concepts and research methods in evidence-based medicine, clinical epidemiology, epidemiology of communicable and non-communicable diseases, occupational medicine, environmental health, and health policy. Teaching in family medicine is centred on the concepts of family medicine, common health problems and their management. The department also runs postgraduate diploma programmes and master programmes in public health, epidemiology and biostatistics, family medicine, health promotion and occupational health. Strategic research areas include women’s health, osteoporosis and musculoskeletal disorders, elderly health, school health, smoking, evaluation of traditional Chinese medicine, sero-epidemiology of hepatitis, air pollution, noise induced hearing loss, neurobehavioural problems and organic solvents, mental health, health services research and evaluation, and disease mapping. # Tel.: 2632 3213 Fax.: 2636 0012 E-mail: b300138@mailserv.cuhk.edu.hk The department is known for ultrasound, head and neck, and breast imaging. Its undergraduate and postgraduate training is recognized by the colleges of radiologists of Hong Kong and the UK. Members of the department publish extensively in renowned journals and are invited to lecture, teach, and demonstrate new imaging techniques at international meetings and conferences. The introduction of an interventional radiology programme is planned in collaboration with the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University of Medical Sciences in Guangzhou to facilitate exchange of expertise in interventional and general radiology, computerized tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and barium studies. An ultrasound programme is also launched in conjunction with the General Hospital of the Chinese PLA, Beijing, to provide training in bladder studies and colour velocity imaging quantatives through staff exchange. In addition, an MRI project with the First Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College was set up in 1999.