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Health

The Hospital Authority also trains specialist doctors, offering appointments to nearly all the medical graduates of the two universities each year for on-the-job specialist training. In 2016, about 400 doctors were recruited for specialist training and some 290 doctors obtained specialist qualifications at the end of their training.

Dentists

HKU offers degree courses in dentistry, admitting 76 students to its six-year bachelor degree programme in 2016. Sixteen candidates who completed their dental training outside Hong Kong passed a licensing examination 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 2016, 75 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 are required to employ these fresh graduates as junior Chinese medicine practitioners and to provide them with three years of training. As at the end of 2016, these centres provided 72 junior places for their first year of training and 144 trainee places for their second and third years of training.

Allied Health Professionals

Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and Tung Wah College offer degree programmes for allied health professionals. In 2016, PolyU admitted 124, 105, 100, 53 and 39 students to its. publicly funded degree programmes in physiotherapy, radiography, occupational therapy, medical laboratory science and optometry respectively. Tung Wah College admitted 22, 11 and 61 students to its self-financing degree programmes in medical laboratory science, radiation. therapy and occupational therapy respectively. The professional accreditation process has been completed for the degree programmes in medical laboratory science and radiation therapy and is under way for Tung Wah's occupational therapy degree programme.

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, clinical and personal development. These include three years of in-service training for new recruits of allied health grades. In 2016, the institute offered 67 training courses and 47 overseas scholarships.

Nurses

HKU, CUHK, PolyU, the Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK), Tung Wah College and the Caritas Institute of Higher Education provide pre-registration nursing training. They recruited 1,616 students into their five-year full-time nursing degree programmes in 2016. PolyU and CUHK also enrolled another 124 nursing students in their three-year Master's Degree of Nursing programmes.

Hong Kong Baptist Hospital, Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital, St Teresa's Hospital, Union Hospital, HKU Space Community College and Tung Wah College provide pre-enrolment nursing

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