Our Department

• Full Time Staff



• Teaching & Training



• Queen Mary Hospital



• Tsan Yuk Hospital



• Resident Posts

The full time staff in the Department consist of:

1. University academic staff: one Chair Professor, 2 Professors, 2 Associate Professors, 4 Assistant Professors, 3 Research Assistant Professors, and
   
   
2. Hospital Authority staff: 6 Consultants, 6 Associate Consultant, 1 Residents (Speciatist) and 14 Residents. Fourteen of the full time staff are accredited specialists.

Teaching and training of medical students are conducted primarily at Queen Mary and Tsan Yuk Hospitals. Outpatient teaching is also undertaken in Kwong Wah, Queen Elizabeth, Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospitals and United Christian Hospital as well as the Hong Kong Family Planning Association.

At Queen Mary Hospital, 63 gynaecology beds and 90 maternity beds are assigned to the Department. The number of annual gynaecological admission is about 7,800 and approximately 4,000 major and minor operations are carried out throughout the year. The patients are referred by general practitioners, or gynaecologists in private practice, or other public hospitals. Besides providing a general gynaecologic and obstetric service, the Department also provides a territory wide tertiary referral service for gynaecological oncology, reproductive medicine and complicated obstetric and gynaecological problems. There are about 3,500 deliveries per year.

Tsan Yuk Hospital was initially a maternity hospital. The obstetric inpatient service was relocated to Queen Mary Hospital in November 2001. Tsan Yuk Hospital is now a hospital for outpatient and ambulatory care. It accommodated our general obstetric clinics, obstetric day centre, the Department of Prenatal Diagnosis and Counselling as well as the Lady Helen WOO women's Diagnostic and Treatment centre.

The resident posts in both Queen Mary Hospital are recognized by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) and the Hong Kong College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of the Academy of Medicine for specialist training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. The Department is also recognised by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists for subspecialty training in Reproductive Medicine, Gynaecological Oncology and Maternal Fetal Medicine. Postgraduate courses in new techniques and recent trends in Obstetrics and Gynaecology are held regularly for private practitioners and the resident staff of consultant units from the whole of Hong Kong. The Department is active in both clinical and laboratory research. The laboratories are fully set up for molecular biology work, endocrine studies, in vitro fertilization, immunological studies, immunoassay and prenatal diagnostic work. The

Department is particularly interested in studies of patients with gynaecological malignancies, trophoblastic diseases, fertility regulation, infertility (male and female), psychosexual problems, high risk pregnancies and prenatal diagnostic problems. There is active collaboration with other institutions in Hong Kong, Mainland China and other countries.