Training & Research

Training and education

The Chinese medicine hospital (CMH) will collaborate with academia, the professionals, trade and industry, and other related institutions, to provide specific healthcare training and education opportunities to healthcare professionals related to Chinese medicine (CM) and Integrated Chinese-Western Medicine (ICWM). As a hospital with major role in training, the CMH will support the three local Universities with a School of Chinese Medicine (the Universities) by providing clinical training for their undergraduate and postgraduate students. The CMH will also provide continuing training to the hospital staff to ensure that all healthcare and non-healthcare staff in the CMH are competent, capable and equipped with the latest knowledge and skill to continue driving the development of the CMH.

Diagram illustrating the role of CMH in training and education

The CMH will also serve as the clinical training platform of CM practitioners by providing training posts subsidised by the Government for basic training to registered CM practitioners with less than 3 years of clinical experiences and advanced training to registered CM practitioners with more than 3 years of clinical experiences. Besides, the CMH will organise training programmes through collaboration with related organisations or institutions in providing training opportunities to CM practitioners, doctors and healthcare professionals in the community.

Layout of CM Consultation cum Teaching Room (One-way mirror)

This type of demonstration consultation room with built-in one-way mirror for observation could help student and trainee groups acquiring clinical or patient handling techniques, e.g. patient consultation, communication, conflict management, breaking bad news on simulated cases or situations.

Layout of Auditorium

The auditoria are two 250-seat multi-purpose lecture halls to accommodate large-scale education and training activities. It can be combined to one larger hall of 500 seats when necessary.

Preliminary architectural design layout of Simulation Centre

The Simulation Centre aims at augmenting learning with high-fidelity simulation technology in a multidimensional and multi-disciplinary setting. The Centre shall be designed with extraordinary versatility that can mimic real-life clinical scenarios for participants to practise procedures without any risk to patients and to develop effective team dynamics in complex clinical situations.

Research

The CMH will support the development of research, collaborate closely with the Universities, educational bodies in Hong Kong, overseas countries and the Mainland to promote evidence-based clinical research (on both CM and ICWM), development research in CM theories and clinical application of proprietary Chinese medicines (pCms) (中成藥). Besides, a Clinical Trial and Research Centre (CTRC) (with 20 beds) capable of conducting Phase I and Phase II clinical trials will be set up in the CMH to facilitate and conduct clinical research on pCms including development of new pCms and expanding new clinical indications from existing pCms.

The CMH will also provide research training to CM practitioners, doctors and related medical staff to enhance scientific research capabilities and promote clinical application of scientific research results.

Preliminary architectural design layout of CTRC

The CTRC shall be set up to conduct internationally recognised high standard clinical research and provide a scientific research platform for the development of CM including Chinese medicines (CMs), especially in the therapeutic application of CMs, promotion of the clinical development of Proprietary CMs, and enhancement of the position of CM in the international market.