About Us

About CUHK

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Founded in 1963, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is a forward looking comprehensive research university with a global vision and a mission to combine tradition with modernity, and to bring together China and the West. As a top university in Hong Kong and Asia, CUHK aims to nurture students with both specialized knowledge and wisdom for life. CUHK teachers and students hail from all corners of the world. We have over 20,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students, of whom 3,000 come from regions outside Hong Kong.
CUHK undertakes a wide range of research programmes in many subject areas, and strives to provide scope for all academic staff to undertake consultancy and collaborative projects with industry. The University also has an excellent record of published research, both in discipline-specific journals and in more high-profile publications such as Science, Nature, and The Lancet.
http://www.cuhk.edu.hk

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About ORT

Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatology

The department was established in 1982. The first batch of medical students started to have their clinical orthopaedic teaching in 1983.

On the clinical services, the department developed along the major fields of subspecialties in orthopaedics, from Traumatology, Orthopaedic Rehabilitation, Hand and Microsurgery, Sports Medicine, Paediatric Orthopaedics to Orthopaedic Oncology, Spinal Injury, Joint Reconstruction Surgery to the latest addition of Foot and Ankle Surgery. Many of these subspecialties enjoy significant local, regional and international professional and academic recognition and achievements.

Significant growth has been achieved in the research area. From purely clinical reviews and research, the department has steadily expanded in the years to cover different areas of basic and applied basic research that spread from soft tissue, bone and cartilage to biomaterials, osteoporosis and traditional Chinese medicine. The research committee and the musculoskeletal research laboratory structure now have clear responsibility and function to plan, advise and implement defined policies related to research. http://www.ort.cuhk.edu.hk

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About OLC

Orthopaedic Learning Centre

The Orthopaedic Learning Centre (OLC) was established in 1999 as an innovative and comprehensive training centre, the first of its kind in Hong Kong, to provide the facility and expertise for the training of the orthopaedic team, with the ultimate aim to provide the highest standard of orthopaedic care to our community.

OLC has been developed into a multi-functional education centre suitable for a variety of audiences with a multitude of meeting needs including hands-on workshop facilities, live surgery relay network, teleconference system, simultaneous interpreting system, participants response system, voting system and wireless LAN. Well-equipped with the latest information technology and audio-visual setups, together with the state-of-the-art bioskill laboratory and computer assisted orthopaedic laboratory, OLC has been the designated center for training of a number of professional bodies and international organizations. Besides, OLC has been certified ISO 9001 compliant by the International Organization for Standardization since 2009 and has successfully acquired the accreditation of the latest ISO 9001:2008 standard in 2010.
http://www.olc-cuhk.org

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Mission

Through the years, the department has grown and developed under the clear Mission and Vision "to provide the highest quality service in patient care, research, education and teaching for medical students and postgraduate training". Colleagues of the department have and will continue to be actively committed to the university, the professional and specialty development, and play important roles in public services, voluntary services and services to the community.

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New Emphasis

In anticipation of sharp acceleration in population aging, Commissioner for Census & Statistics projected that about 27 percent of Hong Kong population will be 65 years old or above in 2030s. Resulting from the ever increasing case loads from an aging population in Hong Kong and worldwide, a new subspecialty in orthopaedics / geriatrics: the geri-orthopaedic discipline is emerging as a discrete entity by itself. The complexity of orthopaedic and medical problems seen with each elderly patient also spell out the needs of mobilizing and alerting medical personnel to specialize in this area in order to meet the needs of the society and keep the clinical service up to standard.

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Objectives

The aim of the credit-based programmes is to equip graduates with an understanding of the concepts and practical skills that are closely related to geriatric orthopaedics. These include:

  • To develop a new subspecialty of geriatric orthopaedics by which medical, surgical and paramedical personnel are trained up to provide quality treatment or caring services in order to improve or maintain the elders’ quality of lives.
  • To develop a multi-disciplinary subspecialty in orthopaedics so that orthopaedic surgeons, geriatricians, anaesthetists, family physicians and allied health professionals in hospital and community settings are mobilised to work together in the management and caring of fragility fractured patients so as to achieve high quality treatment outcome and prevention of subsequent fractures.
  • To train and teach medical, surgical and paramedical personnel on the comprehensive care of geriatric orthopaedic patients.
  • To train researchers and scientists to engage in research programs on geriatric orthopaedics.
  • To train family physicians to take care of common geriatric orthopaedic condition, promote general health in musculoskeletal systems among the elderly and prevention programs in the community.
  • To train community practitioners on prevention and early detection of degenerative musculoskeletal conditions.

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Target professionals

  • Orthopaedic surgeons and Higher Trainees
  • Physicians and Higher Trainees
  • Geriatricians
  • Rehabilitation specialists
  • Family physicians and general practitioners
  • Anaesthetists
  • Social workers
  • Registered nurses
  • Allied health professionals

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