The Public Health Practice (PHP) concentration is a broadly based programme designed to prepare physicians, dentists, nurses, other health professionals, medical and health researchers and policy analysts, to gain leadership skills in public health through identifying and analysing contemporary health and health care issues, as well as health promotion programme development, implementation and evaluation.

The programme will support candidates’ preparation for the Hong Kong College of Community Medicine Public Health Medicine Part I fellowship examination for physicians and the UK Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal Colleges of Physicians (MFPH) and Diplomate (DFPH) examinations open to physicians and other health professionals, and also the Hong Kong College of Community Medicine Administrative Medicine Part I fellowship examination.

 

On completion of the programme students will be able to

• Use epidemiological and/or other approaches to describe the health status or health care needs and determinants of health and illness of a defined population

• Assemble, review critically and interpret public health literature

• Integrate basic public health science skills in advocacy, collaborate with public health partners

• Formulate strategies for health promotion and prevention

• Formulate a strategy to manage a public health problem