The Hong Kong Government announced today (August 8) that the Director of Health announced today the second batch of lists covering 23 medical qualifications recognized by the Special Registration Committee, including the Bachelor of Medicine and General Medicine programme of Fudan University in China, the first Accepted Mainland institutions. The list of the second batch of recognized medical qualifications will be gazetted this Friday (10th), which will take effect on the same day, and will be submitted to the Legislative Council next Wednesday (15th) for a pre-construction-then-deliberation process. Together with the first batch of lists covering 27 medical qualifications announced at the end of April, the committee has so far recommended a total of 50 medical qualifications for recognition, and is actively promoting the accreditation of other non-local medical courses. Medical qualification. The committee expects that the remaining lists of recognized medical qualifications will be submitted in batches as soon as possible.
When drawing up the list of recognized medical qualifications, the committee will consider and recommend medical qualifications that meet the following descriptions, including that the medical qualification is a degree or higher; Comparable with universities conferring local medical qualifications; the content, language of instruction and any other aspects of the courses in respect of the medical qualifications and any other aspects the committee thinks fit are substantially comparable to medical qualifications conferred by any local university.
Since the publication of the Medical Registration (Amendment) Ordinance 2021 in the Gazette last year, non-locally trained doctors with recognized medical qualifications, if they meet the relevant conditions, can apply for registration in Hong Kong’s public medical institutions through a special route, namely the Hospital Authority, the Department of Health , The University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong worked as doctors, and were officially registered to practice in Hong Kong following serving a certain period of time, obtaining a recognized specialist qualification and passing the assessment.
