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Department Profiles • Medicine 193 Wherever possible, integration across systems and the use of small-group teaching are emphasized. The department also offers postgraduate programmes leading to MPhil and PhD degrees. Besides providing quality teaching, the department promotes active research, which is supported by state-of-the-art facilities and techniques in confocal microscopy, flow cytometry, microfluorimetry, patch- clamping, stem cell gene therapy, and molecular biology. Department of Psychiatry Tel.: 2607 6026 Fax.: 2667 1255 E-mail: psychiatry@cuhk.edu.hk The department runs courses related to psychological medicine for medical students throughout the undergraduate years. The theory and practice of clinical psychiatry are mainly taught in the fourth year. Staff members also offer supervision in PhD and MPhil projects. Research activities focus on psychiatric disorders of major public health concern. Clinical epidemiological and basic neuroscience investigations include dementia, schizophrenia, mood disorders, substance misuse, and sleep and eating disorders. School of Public Health Tel.: 2252 8702 Fax.: 2145 8517 E-mail: sph@med.cuhk.edu.hk Website: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/med/sph Located in the precincts of the Prince of Wales Hospital, the objectives of the School of Public Health are to contribute to the improvement of health through medical education, training, research and consultancy services in public health and in health-related sciences. The school’s research covers epidemiological studies of common chronic diseases and disability, evidence based healthcare, health of children, women, and the elderly, nutrition, physical activity, health promotion and health education, addiction research and education, and health services delivery. These different areas are grouped into 12 different centres and there are 27 taught courses. As such, the School of Public Health represents a synthesis and consolidation of current areas of expertise and interests in non- communicable and communicable disease. The school collaborates with the government, the Hospital Authority, the Department of Health, the World Health Organization, and other professional bodies and organizations. Department of Surgery Tel.: 2632 2789/2617 Fax.: 2637 7974 E-mail: surgery@cuhk.edu.hk Website: http://www.surgery.cuhk.edu.hk The department provides comprehensive undergraduate and postgraduate surgical training. One of the best recognized surgical centres in the world, it is a centre of