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Health
The Hospital Authority trains specialist doctors, offering appointments to nearly all the medical graduates of the two universities each year for on-the-job specialist training. In 2018-19, about 450 doctors were recruited for specialist training. Around 320 doctors were awarded specialist qualifications by the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine in 2019.
Dentists
HKU offers degree courses in dentistry, admitting 80 students to its bachelor's degree programme in 2019. Twenty-seven 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 (HKBU) offer full-time undergraduate degree courses in Chinese medicine. During the year, 82 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-2019, 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 (TWC) offer degree programmes for allied health professionals. In 2019, PolyU admitted 151, 112, 100, 57 and 49 students to its publicly funded degree programmes in physiotherapy, radiography, occupational therapy, medical laboratory science and optometry respectively. TWC admitted 45, 15, 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. Students of all four self-financing degree programmes receive government subsidies 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 2019, the institute offered 79 training courses and 47 overseas scholarships.
Nurses
HKU, CUHK, PolyU, HKBU, the Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK), Caritas Institute of Higher Education and TWC provide pre-registration nursing training. They recruited 2,114 students into their nursing degree programmes in 2019. PolyU and CUHK enrolled another 120 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 TWC provide pre-enrolment nursing training. They recruited 426 pupil nurses into their two-year Higher Diploma in Enrolled Nurse (General) programmes in 2019. OUHK enrolled
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