June 2004
Wine
Tasting at Academy Lounge
A wine tasting will be held from 4-6 pm on 12 June 2004
(Saturday) at the Academy Lounge. It
is free but registration is required, on first-come-first-serve basis.
Please click below for more details.
Free Trial of eKG at the Academy
Library
The Hospital Authority has kindly offered
free trial of their electronic Knowledge Gateway (eKG) at the Academy
Library for a period of 3 months, starting from 1 June 2004. Fellows can access to the eKG via Internet at the library on 3/F of the
Academy Building free of charge. The Academy Library opens from
12:00 to 21:00 from Mondays to Saturdays; and from 9:00 to 21:00 on
Sundays and public holidays. Please click below to see more details of the
eKG.
Medical
Library System of The University of Hong Kong
Accessible
at the Academy Library
The
Academy has made arrangement with the University of Hong Kong to allow Academy
Fellows to access their Medical Library System via Internet at the Academy
Library for a trial period of 3 months, from 1 April to 30 June 2004.
During this period, Fellows can use the three designated computers at the
Academy Library on 3/F to access the electronic information and digital medical
resources of the University medical library system free of charge.
Fellows utilizing the
facility are requested to complete a simple questionnaire per unit use.
Information collected from the questionnaires will be used by the Academy
to assess the related need of Fellows, and to determine if such service will
continue in the future. The
Academy Library opens from 12:00 to 21:00 from Mondays to Saturdays; and from
9:00 to 21:00 on Sundays and public holidays.
2004
Annual Subscriptions
Fellows
are reminded that their 2004 Annual Subscriptions are due on 1 January 2004.
Fellows should receive a demand note from either the Academy or their
College. Please be reminded that it
is Council's policy that subscriptions received by the Academy after 30 June
2004 will be subject to a surcharge of 5% on the subscription amount.
Please settle your subscription as soon as possible.
Wine Tasting at Academy Lounge
A
wine tasting was held on 15 May 2004 at the Academy Lounge. It was
well attended by Fellows and their friends. Repeated event will be
organised later.
Admission of New
Fellows
The Academy admitted 130 new Fellows from 14 Colleges
at the EGM held on 20 May 2004.
38th
Singapore-Malaysia Congress of Medicine, 19-22 August 2004
The
38th Singapore-Malaysia Congress of Medicine will be held at
the Meritus Mandarin Singapore from 19th to 22nd
August. Theme of the Congress
is CPD and Professionalism: The Next Lap.
The Hong Kong Academy of Medicine is a participating organisation
for this year’s congress. For
registration and programme details, please contact the Academy of
Medicine, Singapore.
Academy
of Medicine, Singapore
142
Neil Road
Runme
Shaw Building
Singapore
088871
Tel
: (65) 6223 8968
Fax
: (65) 6225 5155
Email
: [email protected]
Website
: www.academyofmedicine.edu.sg
Synchronization
of CME Cycle
As
reported previously, Council has decided that all Fellows would start their CME
cycle afresh on 1 January 2005, so as to synchronize with the duration of
practising certificate following the decision of Medical Council of Hong Kong to
make CME a requirement for practising doctors. In order to achieve this
end, CME cycles started within 3 years before 1 January 2005 will have to be
counted on a pro-rata basis. This means that if one’s CME cycle length
before 1 January 2005 is 1.5 years, he/she shall need to gain 45 CME points
before 1 January 2005. To facilitate Fellows in fulfilling the CME
requirements prior to that date, Council has approved the following one-off
arrangements proposed by some Colleges for the purpose of synchronization.
Please contact your College if you have queries.
a)
If
the duration of a cycle immediately before 1 January 2005 is 6 months or less,
the cycle could be combined to the previous cycle, and the point requirement
would be adjusted on a pro-rata basis;
b)
Colleges
could consider adjusting the point capping for certain CME category if
necessary, subject to formal endorsement by Education Committee.
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