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Health
Dentists
HKU offers degree courses in dentistry, admitting 74 students to its bachelor's degree programme in 2018. Nineteen candidates who completed their dental training outside Hong Kong passed licensing examinations conducted by the Dental Council of Hong Kong.
Chinese Medicine Practitioners
CUHK, HKU and Hong Kong Baptist University offer full-time undergraduate degree courses in Chinese medicine. In 2018, 76 full-time local bachelor's degree graduates who passed the licensing examination were registered as Chinese medicine practitioners.
The 18 Chinese medicine centres for training and research employ fresh graduates as Chinese medicine practitioner trainees for three years. As at end-2018, these centres had 216 training places, including 72 places for the first year of training.
Allied Health Professionals
Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and Tung Wah College offer degree programmes for allied health professionals. In 2018, PolyU admitted 134, 115, 102, 56 and 47 students to its publicly funded degree programmes in physiotherapy, radiography, occupational therapy, medical laboratory science and optometry respectively. Tung Wah admitted 29, 19, 50 and 50 students respectively to its self-financing degree programmes in medical laboratory science, radiation therapy, occupational therapy and physiotherapy, the last of which is undergoing professional accreditation while the other three have been accredited. In the 2018-19 academic year, students of the three accredited programmes are receiving government subsidy under the Study Subsidy Scheme for Designated Professions/Sectors.
The Hospital Authority's Institute of Advanced Allied Health Studies devises structured long- term training plans for allied health staff members and runs courses on specialist and multidisciplinary training, and clinical and personal development. These include three years of in-service training for new recruits of allied health grades. In 2018, the institute offered 95 training courses and 64 overseas scholarships.
Nurses
HKU, CUHK, PolyU, the Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK), Tung Wah College and Caritas Institute of Higher Education provide pre-registration nursing training. They recruited 1,608 students into their nursing degree programmes in 2018. PolyU and CUHK enrolled another 119 students in their Master's Degree of Nursing programmes.
Hong Kong Baptist Hospital, Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital, St Teresa's Hospital, Union Hospital and Tung Wah College provide pre-enrolment nursing training. They recruited 461 pupil nurses into their two-year Higher Diploma in Enrolled Nurse (General) programmes in 2018. OUHK enrolled 230 and 44 pupils in its two-year Higher Diploma in General Health and Higher Diploma in Mental Health Nursing programmes respectively. Twenty-four nurses with professional nursing qualifications obtained outside Hong Kong passed the Nursing Council of Hong Kong's licensing examinations and received practising certificates for registered nurses or enrolled nurses.
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