Application: Here

We are now inviting application for admission to the intake of Postgraduate Diploma in Infectious Diseases (PDipID) Programme, organised by the Department of Microbiology and the Carol Yu Centre for Infection, Faculty of Medicine, HKU.

The PDipID programme aims to provide understanding of, and practical experience in, infectious diseases management for physicians, surgeons, clinical microbiologists, other clinicians and health care workers who are actively involved in the daily management of patients suffering from infectious diseases. Special emphasis is put on infections that are major health problems locally or globally.

The PDipID programme covers the following components over a period of two years:

• Six two-days Infectious Disease Courses
• Clinical Attachment (3 Friday Infectious Diseases Rounds, Two Bedside Infectious Diseases Consultations and One Clinical Microbiology Laboratory Round & project presentation)
• A clinical and/or laboratory surveillance project
• One Literature Review of important topics in Infectious Diseases

To learn more about the PDipID programme, please visit: http://www.aal.hku.hk/tpg/programme/postgraduate-diploma-infectious-diseases

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 30 September 2024

Course Fees: HK$28,000

Enquiries: The Course Secretariat (Tel: 2255 2581; Email: pdipid@hku.hk)

Those who do not intend to pursue the PDipID qualification may opt to take Certificate in Infectious Diseases Course or the Individual Infectious Diseases two-day courses.

Personal Information Collection Statement: Click Here

Offered in April, July, and November each year.

Forthcoming course: HKU Infectious Diseases Course 1

 

Date: 16 November 2024 (Saturday)

Delivery mode: Recorded lectures to be conducted by “Zoom”

Time: 9:30 – 16:00 (Tentative)

Online MCQs:16:00 – 16:20 (Tentative)

[Online MCQs to be taken by (1) PDipID students and (2) participants who wish to apply CME]

 

Date: 17 November 2024 (Sunday)

Time: 09:30-16:30 (Tentative)

Venue: Lecture Theatre 1, G/F, William Mong Block, Faculty of Medicine Building, 21 Sassoon Road, Hong Kong

Lecture Time: 09:30 – 16:00 (Tentative) [Registration Time: 09:00 to 09:30]

Quiz Time: 16:00 – 16:20 (Tentative)

[Quiz, consisting of 20 MCQs, will be held at the end of the second day’s lectures only (NO online quiz will be provided)
– Quiz to be taken by (1) PDipID students, (2) Certificate Course Students and (3) participants who wish to apply CME]]

Application deadline: 9 November 2024, 18:00

Registration and Payment:

1. Please complete the registration [HERE] (https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=96928 )
2. After complete the registration, please settle the payment [HERE] (https://onlinepytsysprd.feo.hku.hk/event/110975)

Timetable of IDC 1: [HERE]

Personal Information Collection Statement: [HERE]

Call for applications: rolling basis, April, July, or November each year.

Application deadline: 9 November 2024, 18:00

Mode of attendance: part-time (2 years).

Entrance Requirements

All medical or nursing graduates, healthcare/science workers, pharmacists, laboratory technicians, medical doctors, and healthcare workers of the HKU-Shenzhen Hospital.

Method of Instruction

Six two-day weekend courses.

There will be a quiz after completion of each course.

Performance of these quizzes will constitute the basis for assessment.

Medium of instruction: English.

Fees: HK$5,400 (non-refundable)

 

Title of Six Infectious Diseases Course:
Course 1: Emerging infectious diseases (16-17 November 2024)
Course 2: Infectious disease emergencies, indwelling device and surgical infections (April 2025*)
Course 3: Common problems in infectious disease (July 2025*)
Course 4: Imaging in infectious disease and sexually-transmitted infections (November 2025*)
Course 5: Travel-related infections (April 2026*)
Course 6: Infections in immunocompromised hosts (July 2026*)

(*Tentative)

 

Registration and Payment:

1. Please complete the registration [HERE] https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=96926

1. After complete the registration, please settle the payment [HERE] https://onlinepytsysprd.feo.hku.hk/event/110976

Timetable of IDC 1: [HERE]

Personal Information Collection Statement: [HERE]

 

Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits have been applied from the respective colleges: (PDipID/CertID only)

1. Quotable Qualification by Hong Kong Medical Council
2. CME points by