Calendar 2006–07

108 Part 3 • Department Profiles and Programmes of Studies Faculty of Medicine Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Tel.: 2632 2735 Fax.: 2637 2422 E-mail: ansoffice@cuhk.edu.hk Website: http://www.aic.cuhk.edu.hk The department provides anaesthesia, intensive care, pain medicine, and resuscitation services at the Prince of Wales Hospital. Undergraduate teaching emphasizes clinical skills, resuscitation and perioperative medicine. Clinical exposure is obtained in the operating theatres, the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), and pain rounds and clinics. There are two postgraduate training programmes. The six-year professional clinical programme covers training in all aspects of clinical anaesthesia and intensive care. It prepares the trainees for fellowship examinations in anaesthesia and intensive care. The research programme provides research training for MPhil and PhD degrees on topics related to anaesthesia and intensive care. The department’s research includes clinical pharmacology and pharmacokinetics, cardiovascular and respiratory physiology, regional, neurosurgical, cardiothoracic, paediatric and obstetric anaesthesia, traditional Chinese medicine pain, outcome and epidemiology of intensive care medicine. The department has an advanced patient simulator for training and research in anaesthesia-related skills and a laboratory specializing in drug assays. Department of Anatomical and Cellular Pathology Tel.: 2632 3337 Fax.: 2637 6274 E-mail: hkng@cuhk.edu.hk Website: http://www.acp.cuhk.edu.hk The department contributes to the education of medical students and the Intercalated BMedSc programme. It also supervises MPhil and PhD students, organizes specialist training for the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine, and runs a training programme for pathologists from mainland China. Diagnostic services offered include surgical pathology, autopsy, cytology, haematology, blood transfusion, and molecular pathology. Research is focused on nasopharyngeal carcinoma, immunohistochemistry, neuropathology, renal pathology, liver cancers, and gastrointestinal lymphomas. Members of the department also serve professional and continuing medical educational bodies in pathology at the international level. Department of Anatomy Tel.: 2609 6853 Fax.: 2603 5031 E-mail: anatomy@cuhk.edu.hk Website: http://www.ana.cuhk.edu.hk The department’s undergraduate programmes teach topographical anatomy, histology, embryology, genetics, and neuroanatomy, by means of lectures, practical classes,