Modern psychiatry is a complex discipline involving neuroscience, psychology, social science, philosophy, spirituality, and many others. It is a combination of neuronal processes, subjective experiences and social interactions. If you are interested in this complex topic and would like to examine it in a scientific manner, you should join our postgraduate programme.
The Department of Psychiatry at the University of Hong Kong has always been one of the leading research psychiatry departments in Hong Kong. Our department has 10 full-time academic staff, with strength in the areas of cognitive neuropsychiatry, genetics, geriatric psychiatry, health psychology, neurodevelopmental disorder, neuroimaging, psychotic disorder, sleep and mood disorder, and women's mental health. The research at the Department is of high quality, and the staff has a very successful record in obtaining research funding.
The postgraduate programme can be one to four years in length and provides research training in laboratory- or clinical-based studies. There are regular research seminar, case conference, journal club and speaker series. Students are strongly encouraged to present their research findings at suitable scientific and professional meetings and to submit their work for review and publication in international refereed journals. Many students at the Department have obtained awards and scholarships for their excellent work. It should be noted that "postgraduate degrees" means postgraduate degrees by research. These degrees do NOT act as professional qualifications in Hong Kong and it is not a clinical training programme.