Calendar 2006–07

110 Part 3 • Department Profiles and Programmes of Studies Department of Clinical Oncology Tel.: 2632 2119/2166 Fax.: 2649 7426/2648 7097 E-mail: clo@cuhk.edu.hk enquiry@clo.cuhk.edu.hk Website: http://www.clo.cuhk.edu.hk The department provides regular teaching input in the system-based curriculum. Basic concepts of management of cancer patients are introduced in Year 3. Students further gain clinical experience in the care of cancer patients in Year 5. The teaching-learning environment is based on a 70-bed in-patient facility and out-patient facilities at the Prince of Wales Hospital and the Sir Yue-kong Pao Centre for Cancer. It is linked to a broad range of services including medical-haematological oncology, radiation oncology, and palliative medicine. The department has special research interest in Asian cancers including nasopharyngeal cancer, liver cancer, lung cancer and stomach cancer. International collaborative research and clinical trials are facilitated by a dedicated Comprehensive Cancer Trials Unit (CCTU). The mission of this unit is to initiate and support different phases of clinical cancer trials, supportive care and translational research through grants, donations and contracts with pharmaceutical industry; and to undertake research to reduce incidence, morbidity and mortality of cancer. Since 2003 the CCTU has been selected by the Cancer Therapeutics Evaluation Program of the US National Cancer Institute to host three multicentre new drug studies in stomach cancer, lung cancer, and nasopharynx cancer. Department of Community and Family Medicine Tel.: 2252 8800 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 is focused on the concepts and research methods in epidemiology, evidence-based health care, prevention and control 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. With the School of Public Health, members of 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, health education and health promotion, air pollution, occupational health problems cancer epidemiology, sexual health, mental health, health services research and evaluation, and disease mapping.