Fellowship

The Academy requires all constituent Colleges to provide at least 6 years of supervised specialist training. During the training period an intermediate examination and a final examination / exit assessment must be organised for specialist trainees individually by the respective College or jointly with an established overseas College. Passing the final examination / exit assessment is a prerequisite for specialist trainees to be nominated for Fellowship of the Academy. 

The Academy Council determines the assessment criteria for admission to various categories of membership, including examinations, assessments, qualifications, experience, training, and continuing medical education. The Council may from time to time amend such criteria. On the recommendation of an Academy College, the Academy Council may admit as a Fellow any full member of that College who has fulfilled the admission criteria. The Academy retains absolute discretion over which nominees should be admitted as Fellows of the Academy. 

A Fellow may at the same time hold more than one Fellowship of the Academy. Fellowship of the Academy may cease unless the requirements for continuing medical education, or assessment as determined by the Academy from time to time, are satisfied.

Designation in FullAbbreviation
Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine
(Anaes­thesiology)
FHKAM (Anaes­thesiology) 
Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine
(Community Medicine) 
FHKAM (Community Medicine)
Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine
(Dental Surgery)
FHKAM (Dental Surgery)
Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine
(Emergency Medicine)
FHKAM (Emergency Medicine)
Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine
(Family Medicine)
FHKAM (Family Medicine)
Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine
(Medicine)
FHKAM (Medicine)
Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine
(Obstetrics and Gynaecology)
FHKAM (Obstetrics and Gynaecology)
Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine
(Ophthal­mology)
FHKAM (Ophthal­mology)
Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine
(Orthopaedic Surgery)
FHKAM (Orthopaedic Surgery)
Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine
(Otorhinolary­ngology)
FHKAM (Otorhinolary­ngology)
Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine
(Paediatrics)
FHKAM (Paediatrics)
Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine
(Pathology)
FHKAM (Pathology)
Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine
(Psychiatry)
FHKAM (Psychiatry)
Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine
(Radiology)
FHKAM (Radiology)
Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine
(Surgery)
FHKAM (Surgery)

Honorary Fellows 

Honorary Fellows shall be persons of eminence or persons who have rendered outstanding service to medical science or to the Academy. Nomination of candidates shall be considered and voted by the Academy Council as stipulated in the Bylaw. 

Name of Honorary FellowYear of conferment 
Sister M. Gabriel O’Mahony1996
Prof. Sir David Todd1997
Prof. Ho-kei Ma Chung2001
Prof. Jei-ping Wu2001
Prof. William Ian Rees Davies2004
Prof. Jie-fu Huang2004
Dr. David Fang2005
Dr. Che-hung Leong2005
Prof. Nan-shan Zhong2005
Dr. Peter Chung-yin Lee2006
Sir Harry Sing-yang Fang2007
Prof. Zhu Chen2008
Prof. Grace Wai-king Tang2009
Prof. Chi-tim Hung2012
Prof. Rosie Young2014
Dr. Donald Kwok-tung Li2017
Prof. Dennis Yuk-ming Lo2019
Prof. John Chi-yan Leong2020
Prof. Chak-sing Lau2021
Prof. Joseph Wan-yee Lau2021

Annual Subscription

Demand notes for annual subscription are sent to Academy Fellows in January each year. 

Prevailing Rates
Full rateHK$3,600
Overseas rateHK$1,800
Reduced / retired rateHK$1,200

Honorary Fellows, Fellows over 70 years of age, or Fellows who reached 70 years of age in the last subscription year do not need to pay the annual subscription.

Easy Payment Options

  1. Credit card online payment
    Log into iCMECPD (www.icmecpd.hk), choose “Fellows’ Area” > “Annual Subscription” and follow the instructions to make the payment. Click here for the Quick User Guide.
  2. Faster Payment System (FPS)
    Open the banking app installed in smartphone, scan the FPS QR code on the demand note / own iCMECPD account payment webpage and pay the bill.
  3. Cheque
    Fellows may send a crossed cheque payable to “Hong Kong Academy of Medicine” to:
    Hong Kong Academy of Medicine
    10/F, Hong Kong Academy of Medicine Building
    99 Wong Chuk Hang Road
    Aberdeen, Hong Kong
    Please write full name and Fellowship number at the back of the cheque.

Fellows can view and download the e-receipt in own iCMECPD account (“Fellows’ Area” > “Annual Subscription” > “Latest Transaction Records”) two or three working days after the transaction is completed.


Request Fee Reduction

Academy Fellows residing outside Hong Kong or who have retired from all remunerative practice / job / business must submit formal written applications for reduced rates or a fee waiver before 31 December. Click here to view further information.


Late Fee Applies after 30 June  

Subscription received by the Academy after 30 June will be subject to a surcharge of HK$1,000 for those paying full subscription rate or on a pro-rata basis for those paying reduced subscription rate. 

All payments must be received before 30 September. According to the Bylaw 6.4, if a member’s fee or any other moneys due by a member to the Academy is not received by the Academy within 9 months after such payment falls due, despite two written reminders by the Academy to pay, the Academy shall automatically forfeit his membership.


Reinstatement of Fellowship 

According to the Bylaw 6A,

  • 6A.1    A person, whose membership of the Academy has been terminated or has ceased under these Bylaws, may apply to the Council for reinstatement of membership. 
  • 6A.2    The Council may, in its absolute discretion, reinstate a person a member of the Academy in the category of membership that the person was before the termination or the cease of membership. 
  • 6A.3    The Council may impose such condition as it may consider appropriate on the reinstatement of membership including, but not limited to, payment of moneys due to the Academy and the completion of continuing medical education.

    View and download Guidelines on Reinstatement of Fellowship