Chinese Medicine is in Hong Kong’s Undergraduate Curriculum

Hong Kong Urgently Needs a Hospital

to Teach Traditional Chinese Medicine

No remedy. The city is in urgent need of a teaching hospital for traditional Chinese medicine, its practitioners tell Linda Yeung

Chinese medicine clinics are everywhere in Hong Kong and, for more than a decade since the 1997 handover, Chinese medicine education has been part of the undergraduate curriculum.

Many Hong Kong's practitioners were trained on the mainland, and some have only apprenticeship training. But local universities have emerged as a source of talent for the traditional field, producing about 70 graduates a year.

Unlike the much-envied graduates of mainstream medical schools, these graduates end up working in clinics, and are denied a chance for key practice due to the lack of a teaching hospital.

Of the three universities offering Chinese medicine studies - Chinese University, the University of Hong Kong and Baptist University - the latter has made the strongest call for a Chinese medicine teaching hospital. It hopes to use a site adjacent to its School of Chinese Medicine, on the southern part of the former Lee Wai Lee campus .

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