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Men's Health (男仕健康) Guest Speakers: Dr. William Wong, Dr. Fong Yuk Fai
"Role of Family Doctors in Managing HIV/STI in Men-having-sex-with-men (MSM)" File 1 Download
"傷風感冒 無需服抗生素"
Primary Care Research Leader Workshops Date: June 4 (Sat), September 24 (Sat), November 25 (Fri) and November 27 (Sun), 2011.
The objectives of these workshops are to enhance the research capacity amongst local and regional primary care doctors, to foster research networks, and to help nurture primary care research leaders in our communities.
Date: (Friday) 27 May, 2011 As part of the 2010-11 medical humanities initiative "Exploring illness, suffering and wellbeing through visual narratives", MBBS III students specifically engaged with these themes during their Junior Clerkship in Clinical Oncology and Family Medicine and expressed their vision through original photographs and commentary. This photo exhibition is a celebration of their insight and achievement and inspires the theme for the accompanying interactive symposium. It has been said that the alleviation of suffering is the crux of medicine. As medical professionals and medical professionals-in-training, we also suffer: the punishing schedules, the pressure of doing the right thing, the loneliness of error, not to mention the distress of those entrusted to our care. How does it affect us? Is there a need for healing? How can we take better care of ourselves for our own sake and for the sake of our patients? To explore these and other questions, we warmly welcome guest speakers who will bring perspectives from medicine and health care, social sciences, performing arts, humanities, and most importantly from lives lived.
Symposium – Primary Care for Hong Kong – the way forward, October 15, 2009 The premise for this symposium stemmed from the Hong Kong Chief Executive's 2008-2009 Policy Address on initiatives to improve primary health care as a priority and which has preceded with manpower studies, discussion paper and consultation documents. As part of our academic responsibility to the diligence of this process, respected local and overseas individuals were invited to participate in this symposium which generated constructive debate and discussion about the way forward for primary care in Hong Kong before over 200 symposium attendees. A summary document representing the views expressed by symposium discussants has been published in a local medical journal and forwarded to the attention of Government.
The workshop introduced to 25 senior family physicians with an interest in primary care research, to the objectives and requirements of the Five Weekend Research Program that was pilot sponsored by the Ontario College of Family Physicians, in order to assist them in facilitating similar programmes in Hong Kong. The program focused on the essentials of education, management, communication, critical appraisal skills and the principles of family medicine to develop leadership and team-building skills for community-based family physicians interested in research. This has led the organization of a 5-module training course for primary care doctor of the Hospital Authority which commenced in January 2010. The workshop wassupported by a UICC International Technology Transfer Fellowshipto bring two international experts, Professor Peter Fayers and Professor Neil K. Aaronson to Hong Kong. It was organized in collaboration with the Research Centre on Public Health and Cancer Research Centre of the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine. It provided training to fifty participants on the best practices and recommendations on the use of HRQoL in clinical oncology research and practice; the conceptual/theoretical basis for assessing HRQoL in clinical research and clinical practice in oncology; methodological and practical criteria for evaluating existing HRQoL measures; and the interpretation of HRQoL data.
A pioneering attempt to offer a platform for exchange and cooperation among medical and paramedical professionals in issues related to community psychological medicine, the IFCPM was held in October 2006. Presided by many distinguished speakers with near 250 local and overseas participants joining its 4-day programmes, the Conference achieved to promote and facilitate a multidisciplinary approach in rendering quality mental healthcare for the community.
This was a one-day workshop adapted from the two-day EBP workshop of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, University of Oxford. The workshop was facilitated by Professor Paul P Glasziou, Director, Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, University of Oxford. It provided training for 30 practicing doctors on the skills of formulating answerable clinical questions, identifying the type of research that best answers the different classes of clinical questions, searching research databases (MEDLINE, Cochrane, Embase, etc) that are most likely to be helpful in answering different types of clinical questions, and appraising the results of different types of research studies to help in the management of individual patients.
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