The Department of Surgery is an integral part of the Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong providing undergraduate and post-graduate surgical training. It is also a centre of excellence in research, teaching and clinical practice in surgery and surgery-related areas. Since its establishment, the Department has become one of the best recognized surgical centres in the world and has attracted many overseas trainees to come to Hong Kong further their surgical training.

Based in the Prince of Wales Hospital, which is the teaching hospital for the Faculty of Medicine, the Department of Surgery also provides both in-patient and out-patient service for the general public in the following sub-specialties: