Calendar 2002–03

DepartmentProfiles •Medicine 163 and internship, with emphasis on training of general medical and surgical skills. The teaching-learning environment is based on a 70-bed in-patient facility and out-patient facilities at the Prince of Wales Hospital and Sir Yue-kong Pao Centre forCancer, linked to a broad range of services including medical-haematological oncology, radiation oncology, and palliative medicine. The department hasspecial resear ch interest in nasop hary ng eal can cer, liv er cancer , clinical tr ials methodology, and anti-cancer agents. International collaborative research and clinical trials are facilitated by a ded icated Comprehensive Cancer Trials Unit. The mission of this un it is to initiate and suppo rt differ ent phases of clinical cancer trials, supportive care and translational research through grants, donations and contracts with pharmaceuticalindustry; and to undertake research to reduce incidence, morbidity and mortality of cancer. Department of Community and Family Medicine Tel.:2252 8786 Fax.:2606 3500 E-mail: cfm@cuhk.edu.hk Website :http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/med/cmd/index.html The department trains doctors who can provide evidence-based primary health care and public health services. Teaching in community medicine isfocused on th e concepts and research metho ds in ev idence-based medicin e, clinical epidemiology, epidemiology of communicable and non-communicable diseases, occupational medicine, environmental h ealth, and health policy. Teaching in family medicine is centred on the concepts of family medicine, common health problems and theirmanagement. The department also runs postgraduate diploma pr ogrammes an d master pr ogrammes in pub lic health, epidemiolo gy and biostatistics, family medicine, health promotion and occupational health.Strategic resear ch areas include women’s health , osteop orosis and muscu losk eletal disorders, elderly health, schoolhealth, smoking,evaluation of traditional Chinese medicine, sero-epidemiology of hepatitis, air pollution, noise induced hearing loss, neurobehav ioural prob lems and or ganic solv ents, mental health, health services research and evaluation, and disease mapping. Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Organ Imaging Tel.:2632 3213 Fax.:2636 0012 E-mail: droid@med.cuhk.edu.hk Thedepartmentis known for ultrasound, interventionalradiology, head and neck, musculoskeletal and breast imaging. Itsundergraduate and postgraduate training is recognized by the collegesof radiologists of Hong Kong and the UK. Members of the department publish extensively in renowned journals and are frequently invited to lecture, teach, and demonstrate new imaging techniques at international meetings and conferences. In order to facilitate exchange of expertise in various aspects of imaging, thedepartment has a continuous exchange programme with the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen Univ ersity of Medical Sciences in