1   Medical Year 1 to 3

Early clinical contact allows better exposure to achieve better training in clinical skills communication and simple physical examination skills. Surgeons are involved in this clinical end to enhance the learning process of medical students.

2   Junior Surgical Dressership (Medical Year 4)

A 12-week block of teaching in the third years. Students are assigned to 3 surgical modules and rotated every 4 weeks for clinical teaching. Not only at the Department of Surgery in the Prince of Wales Hospital, students also rotate through other hospitals. These hospitals included Caritas Medical Centre, Kwong Wah Hospital, Princess Margaret Hospital, Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital, Tseung Kwan O Hospital, Yan Chai Hospital, United Christian Hospital and Tuen Mun Hospital.

With a mixture of lectures, group tutorials in a classroom setting, group tutorials at the bed-side, teaching sessions during ward rounds and during operating sessions, students are taught the basic knowledge of history taking, clinical examination, and surgical sciences. Students are also encouraged to attend various academic activities in the department including X-ray meetings, clinical-pathological conferences and surgical grand rounds. Active participation from students is encouraged as "spoon-feeding" has not been the tradition of surgical teaching in the department.

3   Senior Surgical Dressership (Medical Year 6)