History
The medical school of the Chinese University of Hong Kong was approved to be established in 1974 by the Hong Kong legislative council and finished its basic construction to receive its first batch of medical undergraduates in 1981. The United Christian Hospital and the Kowloon Hospital were the teaching hospitals of the school prior to the opening of the Prince of Wales Hospital in 1984.
Later on, various medical-related schools were constructed as well, followed by the introduction of different undergraduate and postgraduate programs in the field of healthcare and biomedical sciences other than the medical programs. With the establishment of the nursing school, the post-registration and Bachelor of Nursing degree were introduced in 1991 and 1995 respectively at CUHK and the school was then renamed as the Nethersole School of Nursing in 2002. Moreover, the Bachelor of Pharmacy program was also introduced in 1992 and the School of Public Health was started to build in 1999 which then provided the city's first Bachelor of Science in Public Health program in 2009.
The medical faculty of the CUHK now consists of four schools: School of Biomedical Sciences; The Nethersole School of Nursing; School of Pharmacy and The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care.
The first full-time Dean of Faculty of Medicine, Professor G. H. Choa, was appointed in 1977. Currently, the Dean of Medicine is Professor FOK, Tai Fai.
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